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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 64016" data-attributes="member: 57984">I was listening to an NPR program this morning about whether Trump&#039;s rhetoric had increased violence and energized alt-right hate groups.Numerous callers offered the similar complaint that when Muslims commit terrorist acts, it&#039;s never shown by the &quot;liberal&quot; media as being representative of the Muslim population as a whole, but when a white person commits a terrorist act, it&#039;s chalked up to those white supremacist groups being emboldened by Trump.And that this (supposed) bias is (supposedly) unfair.It&#039;s fascinating listening to these rightwingers rationalize their sense of unfairness, their twisted sense of outrage. And the women are even worse, more articulate, more exacting in their indignance. One of the NPR guests, however, pointed out that it wasn&#039;t just media (leftist) bias against Trump that suggests his violent campaign rhetoric fueled this kind of racist fury, but that even the white power movements themselves are very open and direct about how they&#039;ve been energized by Trump&#039;s presidency and feel they now have a friend in the White House.One side think it&#039;s bad; the other things it&#039;s great. But they otherwise both say the same thing.That argument, naturally, was too objective to impress the callers. But it seemed very important to them that Trump not be blamed for stuff. And Trump seems to agree with that goal, so that&#039;s nice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 64016, member: 57984"] I was listening to an NPR program this morning about whether Trump's rhetoric had increased violence and energized alt-right hate groups. Numerous callers offered the similar complaint that when Muslims commit terrorist acts, it's never shown by the "liberal" media as being representative of the Muslim population as a whole, but when a white person commits a terrorist act, it's chalked up to those white supremacist groups being emboldened by Trump. And that this (supposed) bias is (supposedly) unfair. It's fascinating listening to these rightwingers rationalize their sense of unfairness, their twisted sense of outrage. And the women are even worse, more articulate, more exacting in their indignance. One of the NPR guests, however, pointed out that it wasn't just media (leftist) bias against Trump that suggests his violent campaign rhetoric fueled this kind of racist fury, but that even the white power movements themselves are [i]very open and direct[/i] about how they've been energized by Trump's presidency and feel they now have a friend in the White House. One side think it's bad; the other things it's great. But they otherwise both say the same thing. That argument, naturally, was too objective to impress the callers. But it seemed very important to them that Trump not be blamed for stuff. And Trump seems to agree with that goal, so that's nice. [/QUOTE]

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