I don't know if I'm just paying less attention to discourse or if this is an actual thing. Just a thought.
I think it's more that they could blame it on Trump. Biden? Can't blame it on him, so simply stay silent. Democrats absolutely depend on black votes to stay in power.
The lack of coverage feels pretty deliberate. It's weird in real life too though. It's hard finding people willing to talk about this.
Even on this website I've been kinda surprised and disappointing at the lack of discussion. Back when the subreddit was around during the George Floyd stuff it was all people were posting about.
There was content to post. I haven't seen much to post. When someone burns down a police station we'll have some
I think it also helped that every news outlet was covering the protest from every angle and CNN had a reporter get arrested for it.
Unicorn Riot getting kneecapped on Twitch is the biggest reason we aren't even seeing anything on a grassroots level, imo.
Idk what to say about it besides that obvious. With nothing changing in this country it feels like state sponsored snuff films at this point and I don't want to discuss that.
whether right, left, or "apolitical", I think at this point most people don't think anything about policing will change no matter how much protesting happens
I dunno CNN has been covering it pretty well, I hate to defend fucking CNN here but I'm being fair. There's really not much to say about the protests other than they've been small and peaceful.
No need to be fair to CNN. Remember when they got caught red-handed planting debate questions? video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yxSR50x5JY
They deliberately encourage copycats in order to boost ratings. Millions of people tune into the news when a shooting happens.
Here is an example of the media glorifying a killer for ratings: 30 second Video: Sheriff asks media not to report Oregon shooter's name, CNN ignores request and does it anyway, including publishing his social media comments. (Note: video was edited by uploader to censor CNN's publishing of the shooter's name)
It's worth it to watch that clip a few times. It's so insane that we allow this.
I expected that next week Biden might say he's forming a commission to study the problem of policing in America. But he won't need to make such a public statement. Is anybody on tv using a word like "systemic"? I really doubt it.
The cops (and surely the mayor etc) must have hired an excellent PR team to manage what they consider to be just an image problem. I hate to say it but the "This video is horrific" PR trick plus releasing it in a Friday news dump worked insanely well for them. I was shocked that it worked.
A few days ago I heard some talking head say "This is worse than Rodney King." At the time I didn't realize the unwitting talking head was reading right out of the PR playbook. The US is a very violent place but Americans prefer to believe that's not true.
This PR effort of getting in front of an issue and explaining how horrible it is before the news is allowed to break will be used over and over. It seems to me it's highly effective. Oddly enough focusing on the violence made a lot of people turn off their critical thinking skills.
I assume MSNBC will keep mentioning "reform" for a little bit longer. Tyre's murder will remain something for people to be "concerned" about until maybe - I dunno - Wednesday. But his murder will quickly be forgotten.
This situation makes me sick.
Imo i think it is simply that race being involved (as in white cop kills black man kind of stories) is more tantalizing to the media and MUCH more mobilizing to random people. Without that key aspect its basically just the anti cop people and tbh there just isnt a lot of us to mobilize and too small and goes against the interests of the media to promote.
White cops would make it a far bigger story. Still - one reason Rodney King's beating was powerful in the early 1990s was that video was still a novelty to most people. People couldn't forget what they saw. Now - Americans forget everything after it falls out of media object permanence spotlight. The public is numb even to a man savagely beaten to death by the police. The tired, old tropes like he was "muscular" or he was "high on drugs" couldn't be used. The pigs murdered him because they wanted to and they could.
if the media talks about it so plainly, people feel like "it's being handled" since they are hearing so much about it from their sources.
I can't tell if it's because I'm less online or if they're just suppressing coverage
It was because they could blame the whole thing on Trump. The police weren't blamed, not really. It was white people and Trump who did it. The media was in full TDS meltdown at the time and desperately, desperately needed an outlet.
Yeah I tried to see if there was anything happening nearby and my local chapter of BLM just posted about some online thing next week
The protests themselves are relatively small, most places, so they aren't forced to cover them. And there's no clickbait or pro-capitalist interest in covering anything anti-cop. Corporate media is 100% pro-cop.
Here's to hoping the protests get too big to ignore.
The immediate charges brought against the cops, which is what the department should be doing at the bare minimum, helped a lot.
I think the media also plays up the white cop killing black guy angle too when this doesn't apply here.
Horrific torture and execution, probably the worst I've ever seen.
I think that the fact the officers are also black means that the media/libs don't want to deal with it, since the only conclusion is basically:acab-2: .
So since there's not much else to run with, the media coverage (and protests) are muted, since you can't go for anything but massive changes/destruction to the very institution of policing, which :liberalism: can't compass. They can talk about racist individuals, and maybe even sometimes institutional racism, but to actually move to the disciplinary apparatus of the state, it just fails.
Yep, they drove unmarked sports cars and were meant to be tasked with hot spots of high crime areas. Instead they murdered an innocent guy driving home. The militarization of the police leads to a natural process of roving gangs who think they can get away with anything. It will reverse the consent they’ve manufactured for “we need to deal with rising crime” if they have to start pivoting away from this.
The militarization of the police leads to a natural process of roving gangs who think they can get away with anything.
I would love for the average citizen to start to recognize this, but I'm somewhat cynical. After Uvalde I feel like nothing can break the default American :bootlicker: attitude towards cops. I want to be wrong though, and I think the thing you describe is the only way it's going to happen. Otherwise libs will just insist on more woman, queer, POC etc cops as if diversity will solve these problems.
It's the front page headline of the NYTimes and WaPo. It's on the front page of CNN, an article about it is on the front page of the LATimes. There isn't really any media blackout. As to why there haven't been many protests, I think that the fact that all the cops were black is significant. Everything in the US is viewed through such a hyper racialized lense, so I think for a lot of people this just isn't going to resonate the same way.
And also there's the obvious fact that this doesn't really fit into the culture war stuff as easily. Both parties are pro-cop, so while the Democrats might give it some passing acknowledgement, they won't really people to start thinking to hard about it, because that lead's down a path they don't want to travel. But also the video just got released a couple days ago, these things are sometimes a bit of a slow burn I feel.
What will Biden do? Oh, of course...
The revolution will not be televised. Ipso facto, if it isn't televised it's revolutionary. :confused-glee:
Speaking as a non-American, the algorithm has been feeding me quite a lot of coverage via our own national media. Its been very condemnatory of the police involved but in a very "You should be glad our police aren't like this!" way.
Even though they emipirically are.
America serves a critical role in your country by letting your ruling class blame their own crimes on us. Everyone gets to say, "America bad!" and it is important for national unity to distract the people. In Europe shared anti-Americanism is about the only thing still holding the EU together.
Is it really just Anti-Americanism holding the EU together? I could have sworn there was a decent amount of racism towards Turkey in the mix.
