They hope to revive the tradition of a generation of media that predates the formal division of news and opinion in 20th-century American journalism.
NYT is being sued right now for not marking Project Veritas hitpieces as opinion when they are blatantly opinion pieces. There is nothing to "revive" because this cancer is alive and well.
“If there was ever a body of people who should be arguing out the definition of a term, particularly a seemingly politically charged term like ‘racism,’ why would it not be journalists?” Dr. Kendi said in an interview on Thursday. “They should define the term based on evidence.”
But of course it's the journalists who should get to redefine what words mean.
Self-promotion doesn’t come naturally to Dr. Kendi.
Bull fucking shit. This guy is an attention whore if there ever was one.
"Racism" didn't need redefining. It was clear, concise, easy to understand, and universally applicable. They've "redefined" it to be "being white". Full stop. Remember "privilege plus power"? Racism now can be a state of being instead of what you do. In their fucked-up justifications, people who are doing things in a way that did not discriminate by race or just doing things separate from other races, are deemed racist simply by being white while doing so. They also (ACTUALLY racistly) use it to take away agency from members of other races just to blame white people. (for example, saying Asian American hate is profoundly white, despite black people being the majority of anti-Asian hate crime perpetrators). It's despicable, and whenever I hear someone think about racism in this way, I know it's completely lost to every try to have a conversation with them, because they have a complete purposeful misunderstanding of what I'm even saying about true equality and progress.
To me, it becomes clearer all the time that while, yes we had a definition in the 90s, it was no more valid than today's. The word is just an accusation of wrongthink. If you had a misguided idea about race, I wouldn't call you racist -- I'd call you wrong.
Yes, that is the inevitable result. Racism now has nothing to do with being wrong or amoral. They're gliding on people remembering "racism is bad" and hoping they don't connect it to the idea that racism literally isn't what it used to be.
The current generation of journalism grads willing to work the news jobs at the NY Times probably think the concept of an opinion desk is racist. Personally, I welcome the merger. These rags were always full of biased lies on the front page, so they may as well admit it.
Agree about him being an attention whore. In today's SJW world, being a black man screaming about racism is the most AW thing you can do. Of course, there's a lot of guys competing for that title, so I suppose Kendi is good at it.
I don’t see how the modern news media could be any more anti white than it already is, but I guess they’re welcome to try. We really need to make journalists afraid again.
You still believe this Kendi and his ilk are poor unknowing victims of feminism? Dude. Mediocre at best "academics" get money, influence and fame. He doesn't give a fuck if it ruins society.
NYT is being sued right now for not marking Project Veritas hitpieces as opinion when they are blatantly opinion pieces. There is nothing to "revive" because this cancer is alive and well.
But of course it's the journalists who should get to redefine what words mean.
Bull fucking shit. This guy is an attention whore if there ever was one.
That's practically an open admission of what they're doing.
"Racism" didn't need redefining. It was clear, concise, easy to understand, and universally applicable. They've "redefined" it to be "being white". Full stop. Remember "privilege plus power"? Racism now can be a state of being instead of what you do. In their fucked-up justifications, people who are doing things in a way that did not discriminate by race or just doing things separate from other races, are deemed racist simply by being white while doing so. They also (ACTUALLY racistly) use it to take away agency from members of other races just to blame white people. (for example, saying Asian American hate is profoundly white, despite black people being the majority of anti-Asian hate crime perpetrators). It's despicable, and whenever I hear someone think about racism in this way, I know it's completely lost to every try to have a conversation with them, because they have a complete purposeful misunderstanding of what I'm even saying about true equality and progress.
To me, it becomes clearer all the time that while, yes we had a definition in the 90s, it was no more valid than today's. The word is just an accusation of wrongthink. If you had a misguided idea about race, I wouldn't call you racist -- I'd call you wrong.
Yes, that is the inevitable result. Racism now has nothing to do with being wrong or amoral. They're gliding on people remembering "racism is bad" and hoping they don't connect it to the idea that racism literally isn't what it used to be.
The current generation of journalism grads willing to work the news jobs at the NY Times probably think the concept of an opinion desk is racist. Personally, I welcome the merger. These rags were always full of biased lies on the front page, so they may as well admit it.
Agree about him being an attention whore. In today's SJW world, being a black man screaming about racism is the most AW thing you can do. Of course, there's a lot of guys competing for that title, so I suppose Kendi is good at it.
I don’t see how the modern news media could be any more anti white than it already is, but I guess they’re welcome to try. We really need to make journalists afraid again.
how about he builds a boat and leaves this country
So...she gets to fuck her racist buck fantasy and he gets to get money from a racist white woman while doing nothing, like the stereotype that he is?
I applaud this. The sooner we reach critical velocity, the sooner we can get to the other side.
Hope he remembers even the Jacobines met the guillotine at some point.
You still believe this Kendi and his ilk are poor unknowing victims of feminism? Dude. Mediocre at best "academics" get money, influence and fame. He doesn't give a fuck if it ruins society.