To no surprise, I encounter not only a large number of right-wingers where I work (a large corporation), but an even larger number of people who quietly espouse not outright racism, but casual incidental bigotry.
This is no surprise, because the establishment media conveys this view in all things it disseminates.
Case in point -> https://fair.org/home/media-must-stop-asking-youth-activists-to-save-the-world/
Greta Thunberg, as a Swedish 15-year-old, became the public face of the school climate strike movement in 2018. While allowing all manner of hateful, absurd insults, media simultaneously laud Thunberg as the “voice of the planet” (CBS, 8/13/19), while young organizers of color doing equally laudable work receive far less media recognition, even when they come from communities that are already facing the consequences of climate disruption.
This proactive neglect was made glaringly evident when the Associated Press published a picture of Thunberg alongside three white climate activists at the World Economic Forum in 2020. Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate was cropped out of the photo, and her comments from the press conference were not included in the article.
Upon discovering the omission, Nakate said that she felt “sad and worthless,” and condemned media for disregarding voices from the Global South in favor of news that would sell, adding that “Africans have truly been erased from the global map of climate action.”
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