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Most of the mainstream media is biased in favor of blacks and homosexuals.

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A number of years ago I read an article in The New York Times that said that most liberals do not want to be told anything in the media that is critical of blacks and homosexuals.

I believe that that is true, and that most of the mainstream media considers that in how it reports the news. In saying this I acknowledge that the mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, there are news stories it avoids reporting, and it shapes other stories. I will illustrate with two examples.

In October 12, 1998 Matthew Shepard was killed by two men he picked up in a bar. This story was in the news for months.

In September 26, 1999 a thirteen year old boy named Jesse Dirkhising was bound, drugged, gagged and sodomized by two adult male homosexuals. He died as a result.

The tragic story of Jesse Dirkhising

That story was given little coverage by the mainstream media. I only learned of it years later.

There was no conspiracy to cover up this crime. Individually organs of the mainstream media decided not to cover it. They must have decided that it would generate hostility to homosexuals.

After Matthew Shepard was killed there was some effort to implicate the religious right. It failed because neither of the killers had any religious affiliation. Nevertheless, those trying to blame the religious right did not care that a connection with the religious right would generate hostility toward Christian conservatives.

In February 26, 2012 George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The first impression most Americans, including me, got of this event was a six o'clock news story on television. It juxtaposed a photograph of of a glowering, menacing George Zimmerman, with that of a sweet, innocent, smiling Trayvon Martin.

We did not know it at the time, but the photograph of George Zimmerman was a mug shot taken after he was accused of a misdemeanor. People seldom look friendly in mug shots. The photograph of Trayvon Martin had been taken when he was several years younger than he was at the time of his death.

The mainstream media could have easily shown photographs of George Zimmerman taken immediately after his encounter with Trayvon Martin. They clearly showed that he had been thrown to the ground, and punched in the face. More recent photographs of Trayvon Martin showed him looking for all the world like the ghetto thug he seems to have been. The mainstream media could have reported that Trayvon Martin had been killed after being suspended from school. It choose not to.

These examples seem characteristic of the way the mainstream media covers news events pertaining to homosexuals and blacks. The mainstream media does not lie. Nevertheless, it refrains from reporting complex truths that conflict with the preferred narrative of homosexuals and blacks as innocent victims of irrational prejudice.
 
Calling gays "homosexuals" in the year 2018?? :roll:

To your ridiculous claims...

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/09/racial-bias-and-media-coverage-of-violent-crime/

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https://www.theguardian.com/comment...srepresents-black-men-effects-felt-real-world
 

I also use the words "Negro," and "Oriental."

Many newspapers do not report the race of criminal suspects. Until recently my local newspaper did not.

Nevertheless, blacks have a murder rate that is eight times the white rate.
 
I used to have a .gif that featured a loading bar, with the words "attempting to give a ****.......attempt failed.".
 
I also use the words "Negro," and "Oriental."

Many newspapers do not report the race of criminal suspects. Until recently my local newspaper did not.

Nevertheless, blacks have a murder rate that is eight times the white rate.

I'll pretend to care about your points when you pretend to care about mine.
 
I'll pretend to care about your points when you pretend to care about mine.

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2011

Based on available data from 1980 to 2008—

 Blacks were disproportionately represented as both homicide victims and offenders. The victimization rate for blacks (27.8 per 100,000) was 6 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000). The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000)
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

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When a white person kills a black person that is often national news. When a black person kills a white person this is rarely the case. Often the local news paper will not even report the race of the murderer.
 
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2011

Based on available data from 1980 to 2008—

 Blacks were disproportionately represented as both homicide victims and offenders. The victimization rate for blacks (27.8 per 100,000) was 6 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000). The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000)
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

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When a white person kills a black person that is often national news. When a black person kills a white person this is rarely the case. Often the local news paper will not even report the race of the murderer.

Soo...what's your desired outcome here? For us all to say **** black and gay people? What do you want?
 
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2011

Based on available data from 1980 to 2008—

 Blacks were disproportionately represented as both homicide victims and offenders. The victimization rate for blacks (27.8 per 100,000) was 6 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000). The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000)
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

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Congratulations, you just discovered the link between violence and poverty, which disproportionately affects people of color. :bravo:

Any other pathetically obvious knowledge you feel the need to bestow on us?

When a white person kills a black person that is often national news. When a black person kills a white person this is rarely the case. Often the local news paper will not even report the race of the murderer.

Prove it. Now.
 
Poverty and crime

Congratulations, you just discovered the link between violence and poverty, which disproportionately affects people of color. :bravo:

Any other pathetically obvious knowledge you feel the need to bestow on us?

Prove it. Now.

The notion that economic deprivation necessarily leads to lawlessness is widely believed but is not supported by empirical evidence. Human history is replete with examples of impoverished people—of all racial and ethnic backgrounds—who have endured extreme poverty without descending into criminal activity. During the 1960s, for instance, the residents of San Francisco's Chinatown were among America's poorest people—with the most unemployment, the worst housing conditions, the least education, and the highest rate of tuberculosis in their city. Yet despite such hardships, only five people of Chinese ancestry went to jail in the entire state of California in 1965.[1]

Similarly, Jewish immigrants to America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also repudiated criminality despite having to face extreme economic deprivation. Historian Max Dimont describes them:

"The majority of these immigrants had arrived penniless, all their worldly belongings wrapped in a bundle.... Most of [them] arrived in New York. Some made their way into other cities,... but the majority remained in New York, settling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, [which was] a neighborhood of the poor. Sociologists, with their impressive charts showing the number of toilets (or lack of the), the number of people per room, the low per capita income, paint a dismal picture of the Lower East Side Jewish slum. But their charts do not capture its uniqueness. Though it bred tuberculosis and rheumatism, it did not breed crime and venereal disease. It did not spawn illiteracy, illegitimate children, or deserted wives. Library cards were in constant use."[2]

The late political scientist James Q. Wilson debunked the theory that crime results from poverty, or that redistributive government programs can reduce crime rates by alleviating poverty, by pointing out that “crime rose the fastest in this country at a time when the number of persons living in poverty or squalor was declining.” He added: “I have yet to see a ‘root cause’ or to encounter a government program that has successfully attacked it.”...

NOTES:
[1] James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), p. 473.
[2] Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and History (New York: Penguin USA, 1994), pp. 373-374. (This book was originally published in 1962.)
Poverty and Crime - Discover the Networks

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During the 1960's poverty declined because of an expanding economy and War on Poverty programs. The crime rate doubled because the prison population declined. Since the Reagan administration anti poverty programs have been scaled back. The crime rate has declined by one third because the prison population has tripled.
 
Soo...what's your desired outcome here? For us all to say **** black and gay people? What do you want?

I want the press to draw more attention to black crime and to the probability that homosexuals are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals. I have read that 85% percent of the victims of pedophile priests are boys. I do not believe that 85% of Roman Catholic priests have homosexual tendencies.
 
I want the press to draw more attention to black crime and to the probability that homosexuals are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals. I have read that 85% percent of the victims of pedophile priests are boys. I do not believe that 85% of Roman Catholic priests have homosexual tendencies.

Why?

I mean, I think there is a lot of attention on black crime as it is...what more do you want? And are you willing to tackle the problem by examining it's root cause, or is "cuz they're black" enough for you?

Also, I think, based on your incorrect assumption about gay folks abusing kids, you should probably give this a read:

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation

This is probably why the press doesn't spend more time on telling people that gay folks are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals...because they aren't.
 
I want the press to draw more attention to black crime and to the probability that homosexuals are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals. I have read that 85% percent of the victims of pedophile priests are boys. I do not believe that 85% of Roman Catholic priests have homosexual tendencies.

Take comfort. Even the most ardent liberal doesn't need the press to remind them about how prevalent black crime is, especially homicide. If the press is to be believed, white liberals would be moving into Baltimore and Detroit. We also know, instinctively, that homosexuality is abnormal, and it makes sense that homosexuals would have a higher propensity for deviant behavior.

Some normalize homosexuality by saying it's innate and not a choice. I can't choose to be turned on by a 4 year old either, but just because I don't have a choice doesn't make the non-heterosexual condition normal.
 
Why?

I mean, I think there is a lot of attention on black crime as it is...what more do you want? And are you willing to tackle the problem by examining it's root cause, or is "cuz they're black" enough for you?

Also, I think, based on your incorrect assumption about gay folks abusing kids, you should probably give this a read:

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation

This is probably why the press doesn't spend more time on telling people that gay folks are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals...because they aren't.

One of the citations of that article is:

Marshall et al. (1988). Sexual offenders against male children: Sexual preference. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 26, 383-391.

In summary: In this study, the researchers compared 21 men who had sexually molested a male under 16 years (and at least 5 years younger than themselves)....The researchers categorized 7 offenders who were more aroused overall by the male nudes than the female nudes as the homosexual subgroup. They categorized 14 offenders who were more aroused overall by the female nudes as the heterosexual subgroup.

33% of the offenders were turned on more by the male nudes, and the study qualified those 33% as homosexual.

The commentary then says: "The offenders were not asked their sexual orientation (gay, straight, bisexual) and the paper does not report any information about the nature of the offenders' adult sexual relationships, or even if they had any such relationships."

In other words, you can be more turned on by men, but this can still mean you're heterosexual. This casts doubt on the objectivity of the link.
 


What? Are you the US P C Speech Police now? You have the right PUSC uniform, but can we see your badge? :lamo

Congratulations, you just discovered the link between violence and poverty, which disproportionately affects people of color. :bravo:

Any other pathetically obvious knowledge you feel the need to bestow on us?
So, you wanna actually change that, or stick with the left's continued failures? Its not a failure to recognize the problem, its a problem that the left has to maintain the dependence system to retain power...now that is painfully obvious... but will you see it?

Obviously, painfully so, not.





These are old, but the system is still in place, just far more recognizable in the present day. Thats why the left is scared ****less of the Kanye tweet. Cant have woke folk. Not leastways and maintain a national party.

Go Candace Owens.
 
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Why?

I mean, I think there is a lot of attention on black crime as it is...what more do you want? And are you willing to tackle the problem by examining it's root cause, or is "cuz they're black" enough for you?

Also, I think, based on your incorrect assumption about gay folks abusing kids, you should probably give this a read:

Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation

This is probably why the press doesn't spend more time on telling people that gay folks are more likely to sexually abuse minors than heterosexuals...because they aren't.

Anyone can find something on the internet that tells them what they want to believe. Those who cannot present the argument in their own words do not understand it.

When skimming through the article you linked to I found this:

"As an expert panel of researchers convened by the National Academy of Sciences noted in a 1993 report: "The distinction between homosexual and heterosexual child molesters relies on the premise that male molesters of male victims are homosexual in orientation. Most molesters of boys do not report sexual interest in adult men, however" (National Research Council, 1993, p. 143, citation omitted)."

This is known as "defining deviancy down." A man who sexually abuses boys is a homosexual or a bi sexual by definition. A heterosexual would not do something like that because he would not want to.

Blacks have a rate of violent crime that is about eight times the white rate. The press has a responsibility to draw attention to that fact because it has legitimate political implications regarding incarceration and racial profiling. It also has legitimate political implications regarding open housing legislation. White blue collar workers do not want blacks to move into their neighborhoods because when blacks do the crime rates goes up and the property values go down.

Finally it has legitimate political implications regarding school discipline and expulsion. Recently I read commentary by a liberal who mentioned that blacks are four times more likely to be expelled from school than whites. He claimed that this was a problem. The problem is that black students are much more likely to be disruptive and dangerous than whites. Because blacks have a crime rate that is about eight times the white rate, I suspect that a larger percentage of blacks should be expelled from school than currently are.

Those who think that it is unfair to expel so many blacks from school should work for at least a year as a substitute teacher in black majority public schools.

One more point: as more is learned about the human genome, genes are being discovered that correlate with criminal activity. These genes also correlate with race. This helps to explain why Jews and Orientals have low crime rates even when they are poor.

One last point: in saying this I am not saying that all homosexuals abuse minors, and that no heterosexuals do. Nor am I saying that all Negroes are criminals and that no whites are.
 
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What? Are you the US P C Speech Police now? You have the right PUSC uniform, but can we see your badge? :lamo

LMAO immediately with the childish insults right out of the gate. :lol:

So, you wanna actually change that, or stick with the left's continued failures? Its not a failure to recognize the problem, its a problem that the left has to maintain the dependence system to retain power...now that is painfully obvious... but will you see it?

Obviously, painfully so, not.

These are old, but the system is still in place, just far more recognizable in the present day. Thats why the left is scared ****less of the Kanye tweet. Cant have woke folk. Not leastways and maintain a national party.

Go Candace Owens.

Wow what a nice Dodge! Not quite a Viper, but pretty close. Charger, maybe?
 
Re: Poverty and crime

The notion that economic deprivation necessarily leads to lawlessness is widely believed but is not supported by empirical evidence. Human history is replete with examples of impoverished people—of all racial and ethnic backgrounds—who have endured extreme poverty without descending into criminal activity. During the 1960s, for instance, the residents of San Francisco's Chinatown were among America's poorest people—with the most unemployment, the worst housing conditions, the least education, and the highest rate of tuberculosis in their city. Yet despite such hardships, only five people of Chinese ancestry went to jail in the entire state of California in 1965.[1]

Oh, yes, I am so glad you brought up the example of the "model minority"! Let's talk about the history of how white Americans treated Asian immigrants. Let's talk about how the trans-continental railroad got built, the history of Chinatowns, the way that white America chose to redirect its active racism from them onto African-Americans. Yes you bring up an excellent topic of conversation! But I'd be willing to bet cold, hard cash that you don't want to continue it, that you want to shift the burden from oppressor to oppressed.

And since you cited all this research, it sounds like you are an expert in the field of crime, sociology, and human relations. What original research have you contributed to the field, SmartCat?

One last point: in saying this I am not saying that all homosexuals abuse minors, and that no heterosexuals do. Nor am I saying that all Negroes are criminals and that no whites are.

Christ, dude, what century do you live in?
 
Re: Poverty and crime

What is it about this thread that makes me think I have been to hell and back? This was less than righteous. I had hoped that America had grown past this nonsense, but my hope has been dashed. I feel the need to take a shower and forget I ever saw this....
 
LMAO immediately with the childish insults right out of the gate. :lol:



Wow what a nice Dodge! Not quite a Viper, but pretty close. Charger, maybe?

Hey, if you cannot handle having the imbecility of a post ridiculed...maybe look before you leap off the stupid cliff. Yano?

Maybe standing on your head (taking off the pink cap so you can see might help too ) might assist in defeating natural leftist tendencies. Just a suggestion from one who wants you to raise your game. Cant go much lower.

Only a lefty cannot see their own link (you know the one that pointed out regarding poverty and violence) ... and the logical solution to curbing poverty which should, if you are correct in the link, reduce violence.

Getting all jittery with the mention of the Kanye tweet. Chill, your side couldnt keep up the magic trick going forever anyhow. LBJ isnt here to take blame for the mess he created, its up to you new guys to get saddled with the "credit".

Couldnt happen to a more deserving bunch, either. :mrgreen: :2wave: :lamo
 
Hey, if you cannot handle having the imbecility of a post ridiculed...maybe look before you leap off the stupid cliff. Yano?

Oh I'm sorry, maybe I was the one who spewed the following tripe?

What? Are you the US P C Speech Police now? You have the right PUSC uniform, but can we see your badge?

Maybe it's just me, but that looks like it was written by you. :shrug:

So. You ready for a civil discussion or are you just going to keep flinging childish insults?
 
Re: Poverty and crime

The notion that economic deprivation necessarily leads to lawlessness is widely believed but is not supported by empirical evidence. Human history is replete with examples of impoverished people—of all racial and ethnic backgrounds—who have endured extreme poverty without descending into criminal activity. During the 1960s, for instance, the residents of San Francisco's Chinatown were among America's poorest people—with the most unemployment, the worst housing conditions, the least education, and the highest rate of tuberculosis in their city. Yet despite such hardships, only five people of Chinese ancestry went to jail in the entire state of California in 1965.[1]

Similarly, Jewish immigrants to America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also repudiated criminality despite having to face extreme economic deprivation. Historian Max Dimont describes them:

"The majority of these immigrants had arrived penniless, all their worldly belongings wrapped in a bundle.... Most of [them] arrived in New York. Some made their way into other cities,... but the majority remained in New York, settling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, [which was] a neighborhood of the poor. Sociologists, with their impressive charts showing the number of toilets (or lack of the), the number of people per room, the low per capita income, paint a dismal picture of the Lower East Side Jewish slum. But their charts do not capture its uniqueness. Though it bred tuberculosis and rheumatism, it did not breed crime and venereal disease. It did not spawn illiteracy, illegitimate children, or deserted wives. Library cards were in constant use."[2]

The late political scientist James Q. Wilson debunked the theory that crime results from poverty, or that redistributive government programs can reduce crime rates by alleviating poverty, by pointing out that “crime rose the fastest in this country at a time when the number of persons living in poverty or squalor was declining.” He added: “I have yet to see a ‘root cause’ or to encounter a government program that has successfully attacked it.”...

NOTES:
[1] James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), p. 473.
[2] Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and History (New York: Penguin USA, 1994), pp. 373-374. (This book was originally published in 1962.)
Poverty and Crime - Discover the Networks

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During the 1960's poverty declined because of an expanding economy and War on Poverty programs. The crime rate doubled because the prison population declined. Since the Reagan administration anti poverty programs have been scaled back. The crime rate has declined by one third because the prison population has tripled.

Your point? That Black people are inherently violent and criminal? Guess your immigration history failed to cover the Purple Gang, the Black Hand, the Five Points Gang, Lenox Avenue Gang, Monk Eastman, Cohen crime family, and many others.

Re sources cited, get some new material. There’s been tremendous research done since the 1960s/80s/90s. If this were a research paper, you’d get dinged for relying solely on old, outdated material that is not peer-reviewed.
 
Oh I'm sorry, maybe I was the one who spewed the following tripe?



Maybe it's just me, but that looks like it was written by you. :shrug:

So. You ready for a civil discussion or are you just going to keep flinging childish insults?

Awwww...

Did stepping on your protruding insufferable bilge hurt your widdle feewings? Give us a break. You got called on both your piles. First on the use of the very valid and useful term, oh the humanity, homosexual as opposed to the smilie faced gay ...

AND then your laughable refusal to recognize the root of the problem, its link to poverty and the resulting violence that you yourself made.

Exposure, here in thread, as being just too fragile to be an honest broker certainly has its worth. In any event, with no real place to hide, your responses are merely more of the norm, your perfunctory partisan pablum.
 
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Awwww...

Did stepping on your protruding insufferable bilge hurt your widdle feewings? Give us a break. You got called on both your piles. First on the use of the very valid and useful term, oh the humanity, homosexual as opposed to the smilie faced gay ...

AND then your laughable refusal to recognize the root of the problem, its link to poverty and the resulting violence that you yourself made.

Exposure, here in thread, as being just too fragile to be an honest broker certainly has its worth. In any event, with no real place to hide, your responses are merely more of the norm, your perfunctory partisan pablum.

Right wing attempts at humor fail every time. It’s just not believable. You see, if members of the RP today were more stoic and thick skinned, they could possibly mock the left for having sensitive feelings and getting easily offended. Instead, y’all elected the most thin-skinned, shallow, insecure man-child who desperately seeks attention, acceptance, and adulation. The “snowflakes” label suits your team better.
 
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