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11 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"We've abandoned a worldview based on right v. wrong for a worldview based on powerful v. powerless—then superimposed a racial binary on it. It's resulted in a taboo on covering crime in minority neighborhoods, whose victims we never hear about." My latest
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
The victims of these crimes deserve good policing that is neither abusive nor neglectful. They deserve a media that says their names. They deserve a media that says we will NEVER accept that in the same cities we live in there are children with the life expectancy of the Congo.
I am just begging us all to do some soul searching as to why we don't cover crime. To me it seems like it's deeply tied to the larger pressures I'm always talking about - a moral panic about race and the abandonment of the working class by journalists who are now in the elites.
Please tell me if I'm wrong and there's another explanation. If you don't like how right wing media covers crime, the worst thing we can do is cede the entire topic to them. And the stakes just could not be higher. Children are being killed and we don't say their names.

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6 Dec
It's astonishing that someone who makes $174,000 a year isn't embarrassed to ask working class taxpayers to pay off her law school debt. At least they're honest: $50,000 in student loan forgiveness is a bail out for highly educated elites, and the Squad are their patron saints.
"The highest-income 40% of households owe almost 60% of the outstanding education debt and make almost three-quarters of the payments. The lowest-income 40% of households hold just under 20% and make only 10% of the payments."
brookings.edu/blog/up-front/…
Benefits of proposals to forgive $50,000 in student loans "would go to the top 40% of households because they have the bulk of the loans. Borrowers with advanced degrees represent 27% of borrowers, and would get 37% of the benefit," per Brookings:
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4 Dec
There's a parallel between Chris Cuomo's downfall and Andrew Cuomo's: It was sexual misconduct, not sending seniors to their deaths, that brought down Andrew—and it was advising Andrew on sexual misconduct, not failing to report the deaths of seniors, that brought down Chris.
I don't think it minimizes the seriousness of sexual misconduct to point out that a society that ranks it as a worse sin than sending seniors and the developmentally disabled to their deaths is in some way deeply sick.
Of course, there's the wider problem the Brothers Cuomo exemplified, namely, what happens when the Fourth Estate is part of the elite, made up of the highly educated and affluent. Journalists end up quite literally on the side of powerful politicians.
nypost.com/2021/12/01/jou…
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1 Dec
Chris Cuomo using his journalistic star power to protect his brother who was using his political star power to grope women and kill seniors is such a perfect literalization of the role our elite chattering class plays consolidating the power of its chosen celebrity politicians.
In this case they were literally brothers, but this is just a super literal version of what happens across the board. Politicians and journalists go to the same schools and live in the same neighborhoods. And as part of the American elites, they work to defend the same status quo
What Chris Cuomo did was a huge dereliction of journalistic ethics, and it's astonishing how long CNN let it go on. But the problem goes so much deeper. It's what happens when the Fourth Estate is part of the elite, made up of the highly educated and very affluent.
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30 Jul
Journalists and the incentives of digital journalism have played a big role in devaluing the institutions claiming to represent or explain "The Science." The person many of us should be upset with when people refuse to get vaccinated is in the mirror.
You can't routinely insult people's values and their intelligence and then just expect them to do what you say. Humans don't work that way, nor should they. But our media and political elites expect obeisance from those they openly show contempt for.
"Germs don't spread at our virtuous protests but they come and spread a lot at your crappy gatherings, now go fight the spread exactly how I tell you to even though I've been wrong a lot about this, what you don't want to, you rube, how dare you, you anti-science ignoramus?"
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2 Jun
If only the perpetrators of this violence were carrying signs and flags and screaming at their victims about why they were attacking them, Vox might be able to crack this impenetrable code, figure out this riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma!
For the past few years, those of us who dared point out that anti-Semitism was being normalized on the Left were subjected to ridiculous amounts of abuse. Now that it's actually broken out into violence, they're breaking out calculators to minimize and dismiss it.
What we're seeing is the mainstream media blatantly normalizing anti-Semitism, following SEO and Twitter trending topics and Google search and politician celebs down a path of hate that's turning America into Europe when it comes to Jews.
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31 Mar
"Subjects with college degrees were 5 percentage points more likely to apply a principle harshly to Jews than to non-Jews. Among those with advanced degrees, subjects were 15 percentage points more unfavorable toward Jewish than non-Jewish examples."
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
The data here backs up what many of us have experienced first hand. Still, it's absolutely staggering to learn that a graduate degree is correlated with such a higher rate of anti-Semitism. What an indictment of our university system. Here are the questions the researchers posed:
"When asked whether 'attachment to another country creates a conflict of interest,' respondents with a four-year degree and those with advanced degrees were respectively 7 and 13 percentage points more likely to express this concern over Israel than Mexico."
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