So I am reading a fascinating book by @jessnordell and it occurred to me that the media broadcasting Trump's rallies and the interviews with the white supremacists functioned like the Hutu radio station in Rwanda changing American cultural norms to approve overt racism & violence
She makes no such claim. It just struck me that the media's fascination with interviewing the extremists in the clown car has normalized clowns. They interview anti-vaxxers and spread anti-vax ignorance. They interview fraud believers and spread that conspiracy.
They are creating an "everybody does it" approval of racist violence, insurrection, vigilantism, and vaccine denial.
Consider this:
Consider this:
The media need to be interviewing the workers who are relieved that their former colleagues are no longer putting them at risk.
They need to be interviewing people who are offended by partisan hacks calling their votes illegitimate.
Focus on norms, not extremists.
They need to be interviewing people who are offended by partisan hacks calling their votes illegitimate.
Focus on norms, not extremists.
Right now, the American media relentlessly cultivates extremism and invalidates longstanding norms. They are creating an "everybody does it" road to insurrection, vigilance, and fascism.
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