Too PC to Call Ethnic Conflict "Ethnic" Taylor is correct here, but does not go the full length to point out that here in the US, the New York Times does the same with ethnicity and criminality, it fails to point out the stark fact that crime, especially violent crime is ethnically related. But first let's walk through the King article. More below. "Why does the Gray Lady (with the exception of veteran Africa reporter Jeffrey Gettleman) so consistently understate the importance of ethnicity in African conflicts? We cannot know for sure, but here’s a hunch: maybe it’s just not polite—not politically correct—to talk about ethnic conflict because it conjures up images of ‘primitive peoples’ blindly killing each other."
Or maybe it's because the people involved are black, and the NYT is unwilling to write truthfully about blacks doing bad thing, because that does not fit the progressive narrative. The problem with the NYT coverage of blacks in Africa is how it reflects on blacks in the US. The NYT can't allow people to make up their own minds based on solid information, they might come to the wrong conclusion, so the NYT doesn't. The writing leads the reader to where the NYT's politically correct narrative requires they be, by uninforming them, misinforming them, and/or disinforming them, as necessary. "To conceal the ethnic dimension of this conflict is to do a disservice to just about everyone—to readers trying to stay informed of events far afield, to activists trying to draw attention to a neglected region, to policymakers evaluating potential responses, and not least of all to the more than 3,000 people of Kasaï who have been singled out and killed because of their ethnic identity. To borrow the language of the social justice left, the NYT’s colorblind approach to ethnicity amounts to nothing less than erasure." So it is in Africa, so it is in the US, the NYT's mal-information campaign to maintain the left progressive narrative about blacks is a disservice to everyone, whether the conflict be in the jungles of Africa, or the streets of the American city. What the NYT is doing is nothing more than criminal. It has one job, inform its readership, but it does not. The NYT intentionally mal-informs it readers, and by doing so, extends, complicates, and deepens the problems in the communities on which it is reporting. In the end, this is not so much a NYT problem as a left progressive media problem, all of the major "news" organs across the media spectrum do this. They have an inability to see the situation clearly, and in a colorblind manner. The result in America is the problems in our inner cities plateaued, and stagnated for the past 50 years. The plight of the black in America was one of 100 years of slowly improving conditions from the end of slavery to 1965, then it all ended, at least in the inner city. Blacks stuck there ended up cemented in an environment of intractable, endemic poverty, drugs, criminality, broken families, and incarceration. By acting as if these problems have no ethnic component, the left progressive media helps trowel more cement fixing these people ever deeper in these problems. It is almost as if the wealthy NYT readers, publisher, editors, and writers believe the world a zero sum game, and they have selected blacks as the losers, since it means neither they nor their children need be. Racism, or cupidity, you be the judge.
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