Social Injustice Warriors

http://www.mediaite.com/online/cbs-radio-deceptively-implies-chicago-torturers-were-white-trump-supporters-victim-was-black/

IRONY ALERT!

Is there anyone more addicted to outrage than today's white, male republicans? Are these people familiar with radio and the fact that it's not a visual media?

One of the usual suspects on Topix, Sublime1, expressed his outrage over the clip above as "liberal spin". He seemed upset that the perpetrators were not designated as black, thus confusing the audience into thinking they might have been white because they repeatedly said "nigger" and "Trump" while they abused their victim. I don't know how one would deduce white or black from that very brief report. Nor am I sure why that's so important.

We've long since been heading towards separate realities in media. This began with Fox news giving a conservative slant to everything since its debut and now includes fake news disseminated by Trump's Russian comrades as well as Breitbart's Steve Bannon, who is Trump's Senior Adviser. Fake news is like religion in that you can believe it if you choose without any proof at all. You just gotta believe. To many, you have a God-given right to believe in God. With republicans claiming to be the party of God, it's an easy reach to grab and embrace fake news as one's own reality. Add in a distrust of big gubmint in general and the media in particular and you have a very unhealthy stew of beefs.
Worse, Trump and his ilk are big gubmint now. That's not very palatable but it appears to be the new menu.

I seriously doubt Dean Reynolds had any intent to portray the perpetrators as white and the victim black but, Mediaite sure thought so and Sublime1 and his fellow Social Injustice Warriors readily chose to believe it. CBS Radio is not the only game in town and they know full well that visual media- newspapers, TV and the internet- would certainly be posting the pictures of all participants. If the public was to be fooled, they wouldn't be fooled for long.

Some people choose to be offended. They are addicted to outrage because they choose to be. Outrage is their safe place. Aren't we all entitled to our safe places? There must be safety in the numbers of stupidity for our conservative friends. And soon they will have a stupid leader in the most powerful position on earth. Bless their hearts...they're just not ever going to figure this out.