Okay I can’t find a race relations thread or a BLM thread or anything on the new forum so I’m just gonna make one for general public race-related articles and media. Feel free to move it or merge it or delete it as needed.
Jesse Williams aka That Guy Stranded On Grey’s Anatomy gave a really good speech while accepting a BET award the other day:
Not only an incredibly racist speech but also factually inaccurate and willfully ignorant.
The Data
yeah, when I’m looking for someone to interpret and present complicated data for me, my first instinct is always to go to an openly white supremacist news blog
Then look at the guardian counter for objectivity.
how about you tell me exactly how you ended up posting a link to TNO, then we can hash out the details of Williams’ speech
Larry Elder (black conservative) tweeted out the link. I posted it more for the statistics found within rather than a way to represent the news source. I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing here. Perhaps I should have only posted the Guardian counter.
But how did you get to Larry Elder
I follow him on Twitter…
why
This is getting silly, is there some argument you’d like to present to this thread? Otherwise, PM me if you need clarification on your broader irritations concerning who I follow on Twitter.
what exactly is so damning about the guardian page, and how does it make anything in the speech racist or inaccurate
The speech is racist because it says black people are different from white people. Duh.
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Here:
Go ahead and read a few days worth of his tweets
Seems like a p. cool dude to me. One of the good ones, you might say
Also check out the site he links. Very eye-opening stuff!
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Other points of view can often have their value considered and dismissed quite quickly, if not immediately. Both TNO and Larry Elder seem to easily fall in that category to me, even if they are repackaging pure facts from a source I would otherwise give consideration to. The fact that many people would do the same to me is hardly reason to give any weight to their words.
Cheer up and let go a little; rational debate is an underdog that will outlive us all.
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