The art of selective outrage, and reportage

[cromwell]

As rioters and looters (sorry, peaceful protesters) torch New York City and various other US cities (it's all Donald Trump's fault obviously), other news goes unreported.
George Floyd will always be waved around by the liberal media as a martyr, as an innocent victim. OK.
But there are other outrages taking place which never get reported. Take the case of the elderly Paul and Lidia Marino of Delaware. They were visiting their son's grave when they were murdered by Sheldon Francis, who happens to be black.
That's pretty outrageous yes? Murdered whilst visiting your beloved son's grave? Apparently not. Not rioting, no looting, no protest marches.
No outrage in the Guardian, no outrage on the BBC, no outrage in the Daily Mirror or Sky news.

I know this is a sensitive subject so I won't labour the point. But the outrage of our media seems to depend on who the victim is and who the perpetrator is. If it is an "appropriate" crime, let the tears flow and the hair shirts be worn. If not, keep it quiet.

I won't be joining any marches or re-tweeting any virtue signalling celeb or applauding any knee-taking sportsmen. I don't think brainwashing is anything to celebrate.

[Suff]

Of corse we know that the vast majority of the people murdered in London via knife crime are black. But the vast majority of knife murderers are black too.

Deafening silence there. Apparently black lives only matter when white people murder them!

Which is so patently ludicrous that it makes sense to demonstrators for black lives.

I don't see them knocking down the door of the Mayor of London...

[Workingman]

I just watched Rivers of Blood: Remembered, on C5 and it is pertinent. Enoch Powell and historical revisionism and a one-sided view - and it is where we are today.

Err, it is not how I remember things, so sorry if this goes on a bit.

The Windrush generation entered the UK and their offspring were my friends - get that: friends. Yes, my parent's generation will have been racist (as now defined), but we weren't. We ran together, went to school together, shared music, partied; we were friends - colour blind.

Powell made his speech on the 20th April 1968 just a few weeks after Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated on the 4th. But in reality it was the Dr M L King assassination that changed things. Young blacks in the UK associated events in apartheid USA with the UK. The two countries were very different, but young blacks saw them as the same. The idea separated us, and it continues today. The Watts riots of 1965 saw to that. The same mythology persist today.

Despite our differences we mostly do get on, but we appear to now be looking back with hate filled glasses. It is very sad. This programme only perpetuated the 'them and us' philosophy so beloved by social scientists, social justice warriors (SJWs) and virtual signalers (VCs). These academics are one of the biggest dangers to integration. They constantly show what divides us but rarely, if ever, show the things that unite us.

[Suff]

Agreed WM, my life contains many friends from all races. Yet if I say that blacks killing blacks is ignored for politically correct reasons I become a racist.

Fine, whatever. But it will never change how I view people. A person has to earn my dislike or disapproval. Their skin, creed or country of birth does not, in my life, automatically create dislike or disapproval.

[cromwell]

Despite our differences we mostly do get on, but we appear to now be looking back with hate filled glasses. It is very sad.

I agree. One of the banners carried in the BLM march in London was "Remember Cherry Groce". Cherry Groce was a black lady who collapsed and died during a police raid on her house in London - in 1985!

[Workingman]

We have entered a world of alternative truth.

George Floyd is being held up as a gentle giant and saint. He was neither. He was a felon not long out of jail after serving a five year prison term. Saint? He was a nightclub bouncer. Gentle giant? He was arrested for (allegedly) knowingly trying to purchase goods with a fake $20 bill. During his arrest he was murdered by a serving police officer backed up by three others.

By all means get angry at his murder, but please take off the rose-tinted specs whilst doing so.

[TheOstrich]

UKTV (Drama Channel) is now showing an advert supporting and eulogising black actors, producers and other talent.

Talk about virtue signalling .....

[cruiser2]

When I was working, in a report I wrote about a factory I visired, I said most of the employees were of an ethnic background. This was in the1980's.

One of the office saff who read my eport made a complaint that it was racist. He had to back down as it was a material fact about the factory and
the process.

[Workingman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPfoEvNJ74

Worth a watch - brave lady.

[Suff]

Trying to swim up a waterfall right now.