Politics Cable news is driving this country towards war

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  1. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I decided to flip back and forth between CNN and Fox tonight because I was curious what the two sides of the coin were saying on the eve of Biden's inauguration.

    CNN is all about racism. Republicans are racists. Trump supporters are racist. Racists racists racists. They have a bunch of POC on and it's all racism, all the time. We're a country embattled by racists.

    Fox is all about how the Democrats are trying to destroy the Republicans. Tucker Carlson is a rabble rouser. He talked about how the Dems are calling all Trump supporters terrorists. He talked about how the Democrats want to send Republicans to deprogramming camps. He talked about how Biden isn't going to make it through his full term and that the radical left is going to take power.

    So on one side we have a news station that is telling all Democrats that Republicans and Trump supporters are evil racists. And on the other side we have a news station telling their viewers that the Democrats and to round them up and deprogram them. This borders on criminal negligence. They're expanding the divide between the parties and they're pushing people towards a point where words won't be able to solve our differences.

    This is extremely concerning. My dad called me a couple weeks ago to tell me he wants to write my sister out of the will because she's a liberal. My parents were never political when I was a kid. They never talked politics. I don't know what's happening to this country but I really don't like it. It feels like we're being pushed towards war all in the name of entertainment and profit.
     
  2. andalusian

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    24 hour news channels have to justify their existence with sensationalism.
     
  3. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Yeah but we have crossed a line. This is becoming like wartime propaganda.
     
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    White privilege and racism is driving this country to civil war more than anything and it's infected our police, military, senate, congress, etc...it's like fight club out there and we need to arrest hate groups, people threatening violence and hold them accountable...all those people storming the capitol will lose the right to own a gun now...weeding those splinter hate groups out of our neighborhoods is more important than caging immigrants at the border...we need to address domestic terroism....it's been here forever...Timothy McVee's hate group was part of that insurection on the 6th....it's still alive...these are no longer just ignorant people...they are organized dangerous people....journalists were slandered over the last four years because they recorded events...not because they wanted to sell news...journalists don't go to wars and risk their lives just to sell news...I'm sick of them getting all this blame..they help stop wars....not start them
    Trump and angry white people clinging to power divided this country with anti brown people rhetoric.....when most of our mass shootings and violent incidents have been from white Trump supporters....it's not a secret anymore. Fuck those people...find a journalist you trust and bookmark them is the key to news filtering....I don't listen to Tucker Carlson...life is too short for that shit
     
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    I can tell what channel this guys watches.... :biglaugh:
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Which is certainly an exaggeration, but racism does exist and the Republican party does seem to have attracted a lot of racists lately.

    Which is a statement that has no basis in fact whatsoever.


    So, both sides?

    barfo
     
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    actually I don't watch CNN much or Fox....I watch BBC alot and Taiwan News...it doesn't take a tour guide in the media to spot racism. Trump's speeches are filled with them....the flags his supporters carry, the tshirts they wear...yeah...I'm calling the guy with the Auschwitz Tshirt a racist......reading topics of interest in print is my preference and I always consider the source....Republicans lost me completely as far as trust and really, trust is the bottom line.
     
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  8. Natebishop3

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    Was my point not clear?
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I'm sure there are racists in the Republican party, just as I'm sure there are racists in the Democratic party.

    With that said, a lot of the "racists" that we see on TV supporting Trump are just people who have been told that Democrats are out to get them. Is it foolish? Sure. But at the same time, many liberals have bought so hard on the idea that anyone wearing a MAGA hat is a Nazi racist, they attack anyone wearing a red hat (ask TBPup.)
     
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    no...people who are white supremacists are afraid minorities, jews, blacks, asians, hispanics and educated people from all ethnic backgrounds are out to get them...and they aren't...when the prez is a loud bigoted racist...he's going to draw a crowd...this is on the party that turned a blind eye to a liar in power...I'm sure there are racists in all political spectrums but the republican party pretty much cornered the market
     
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    What percentage of the 70 million people who voted for Trump do you think are racists?

    I'm not talking about the racists. I'm talking about the perception that all Republicans, or at least all Trump supporters, are racists.
     
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    That's a question that requires a guess but here's one that doesn't require such a stretch....how many known racists are Trump voters and republican supporters across the board? I'm guessing it's a pretty high percentage...
     
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    I think Hillary actually nailed it when she called them out as "deplorables" ....turns out...she was right..and in the end they betrayed the constitution and democracy in one stupid swoop
     
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    Never mind. I misread your post. You’re probably right. But the problem is that news channels are spreading this perception that all trump supporters are racists.
     
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    People still watch cable news? Not that I disagree, I think both are sensationalist in order to drive traffic. The more exacerbated you are at something, the more you're going to pay attention and it becomes a self reinforcing cycle. Cable news and social media are the culprit for our continued polarization. It's hard to see a solution here other than folks going to OPB/NPR and watching real news instead of cable news.
     
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    Fox vs MSNBC would be better examples as MSNBC has more liberal bias and a larger viewership than CNN
     
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    I honestly can not see how you can legally stop it from existing - the first amendment protects it. It is up to the people the reject the propaganda channels.

    Either that or give every American free HBO - maybe they will stop watching the talking heads.
     
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    Perhaps, the FBI knows. However, the demonstrations on 1/6/21 prove radical elements flourish and they abide by what alleged criminal Republicans encouraged. They are Trump, Don Trump Jr., Hawley, Cruz, Tuberville, Graham, Giuliani, and the nefarious 12 that voted in favor of Trump election validity.
     
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    A lot of them are. Institutional racism is mainstream. Would you rather we sweep it under the rug?
     
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