Basically being able to distinguish between fantacy and reality.
People often wonder why liberals struggle in the arena of “talk radio”. The answer is really quite simple.
Listening to the radio requires more intellectual exercise, than watching the “telescreen”. With talk radio, just the words are provided, requiring the listener to translate the words into thoughts that are compatable with the listener’s everyday life experiences.
Whereas, watching television requires little in intellectual exercise. The watcher is given the words, while the images of the “telescreen” guide the watcher’s thoughts to the “correct” conclusions. Let’s examine one of liberalism’s pet causes, welfare.
With television, the words speak of the “needy”, while images of those that truly are needy, reinforce the message . This does not work so well with radio. While the words may speak of the plight of the needy, it’s not enough to erase the mental images of our everyday life experiences of the “single mom” crowding the checkout aisle with a shopping-cart full of “essentials” and a brood of young’uns, each bearing the telltale characteristics of a different father, as she carefully counts out the correct amount of foodstamps. Without the images to guide our thoughts, we start to question why we tolerate this.
“Brainwashing” is quite accurate and very supportable. Let’s go back to the crime stats.
The gross numbers indicate that minorities are responsible for 34% of all hate crimes.(understated, as Hispanics are lumped in with Whites.) But, according to Hollywood, Whites are responsible for 99.999% of all hate crimes.
Another trick that Hollywood plays, is to reverse the roles. My favorite example is in the move, Shawshank Redemption, starring that liberal darling, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. In the movie, Tim Robbin’s character is a victim of a prison gang-rape. Of course, it was a gang that was all White. But remember, that was a “Through the Looking Glass” worldview. Reality reveals that the majority of prison rape is perpetrated by blacks. Think it’s just happenstance that such things are portrayed that way?
Then, what explains that on each network’s “evening news”, they all cover the same “news”. The only difference is in their “public interest” stories.
No, it’s not a “crock”, it’s fact. Of course, minority crimes are reported, they have to report some in an effort of CYA. But all you have to do is compare the degree of coverage, and a disparity cannot, with a straight-face, be denied. Take, for instance, the dragging death of James Byrd, in Jasper, Texas and the quadruple rape/murder murder spree by Reginald and Johnathan Carr, in Witchata, Kansas. Both equally atrocious hate crimes.
The James Byrd murder garnered 24/7 coverage for months, and is still occasionally mentioned, just to ensure that everyone’s mind stays on the programed track. While the Carr brothers hate crime only received token mention.
That’s because Cops is a reality show. Duhhh… Anyways, I’m glad you brought up John Malvo. It lends me another example to illustrate the danger that the liberal orthodoxy poses to all of us.
What’s the only group that is deemed acceptable to “racially profile”? If you guessed white, step to the head of the class. Remember, during the “D.C. sniping”, the “authorities” brought in an “expert” to build a profile of who might be doing the shooting? And what did they come up with? Hollywood couldn’t have done any better. It was a white redneck in a pickup truck. And because of this profiling, Muhammed and Malvo went to and fro without scrutiny to continue killing. Thank you, liberalism.
Yeah, me too. In every instance of white/black parentage that I can think of, the offsprings always claim that they are black. Why is that?
The point that you deliberately, and with malice, distort is that I never said that ALL Hispanic-Americans were liberal. If you recall, I stated that, prior to 1965, the majority of Spanish speaking Americans in SoCal were conservative. It was only after the change in immigration policy, did the political demographics start to change.
See what I mean about “smearing and name-calling” being the forte of liberals. This is the “lie” that GIGObuster is referring to.
Let’s have some fun with this “baby seal” and examine the numbers.
According to the 2000 census, there were 211 million whites and 34 million blacks in the U.S. Of those 211 million whites, there were 4,991 hate crimes committed. This translates into one hate crime committed for every 42,276 whites.
Of the 34 million blacks in the U.S., there were 2,253 hate crimes committed. This translates into one hate crime committed for every 15,090 blacks.
These numbers reveal that blacks are 2.81 times more likely to be the perpetrators of a hate crime than whites. But the numbers for whites are overstated in that “Hispanics” are counted as white. Funny thing about that. Ask the average “Hispanic” if he or she considers themselves white, and they will look at you indignantly and say, “Hell no, I ain’t white!!”
No, it becomes a liberal smear when the media intentionally trumpets examples of hate crimes perpetrated by whites and downplays examples of hate crimes perpetrated by minorities. This is why, when hate crimes are mentioned, people automatically think of whites persecuting minorities. It is the diliberate manipulation of public opinion that has the effect of brainwashing the public.
No, the data is on my side. I am sorry for your relative and, FYI, I am equally repulsed by White-trash skinheads.
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