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@Percussioner211 Ok, I’ll take up that issue. It’s embedded in White culture such that everything you interact w/from birth on informs you of the Superiority of Whiteness... ALL MEDIA ONLY REFLECT WHERE & WHO WE ARE it does not create who we are. That happened before you turned to the channel
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@Percussioner211 & the channel YOU PICK, from a huge array of options for facts & truth TO BELIEVE ..Those racist right wing content channel reflect beliefs you already have, & those conveying facts that disturb those beliefs are discarded...

Cherry picking and choosing what to believe 2/

@Percussioner211 when life school workplace, majority of media & people provide facts to the contrary indicates you are invested in the benefits of those beliefs (justifying your racism & why you vote to keep the system in place) dismiss all reality to the contrary...
This is where we are.
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@Percussioner211 There are folks who take facts to matter and shift accordingly per moral conscience & those who twist facts to suit their benefits they gain by denying reality.

They choose media that reinforces what they’ve already justified via faux resentment narratives that justify their
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@Percussioner211 anger and target other folks as the reason for all of it...

Without their patronage & the money it brings that racist right wing media would change the content which tells you WS right wing media is merely reflecting back what folks WANT

Is media in general generally
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@Percussioner211 racist?
Yes, but given WP/WM hold majority US pop & viewers & hold majority of both private public & Gov power & money,...

you don’t really think TV media is going to jump up and start running programming that calls out WS across all domains now do you?
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@Percussioner211 Media reflects who & where we are or at the very least what we are willing to tolerate & accept even tho immoral
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