One of the reasons the Aurora lie in particular got traction is because Aurora is the most diverse city in Colorado, and has all the typical negative reputational hits among White people because of it. If a landlord made that claim about almost any other place in the Denver metro area, people would have been like, yeah right, Venezuelan gangs in Parker/Lakewood/Thornton? As if. But Aurora, sure, White people are already willing to believe it. Same with Chicago, the right has been talking about crime in Chicago nonstop for decades and White people are already willing to believe any depravity about it.
May I also add that anti immigration rhetoric also serves to dehumanize and other migrants so as to easier exploit them for cheap labor while denying them any benefits or protections. “Disembodying the labor from the migrant worker”
It’s pretty sad to me that a nation of immigrants is becoming increasingly anti immigration. Trump is married to an immigrant and Kamala is the daughter of two immigrants; they cannot logically be anti immigration, but alas…
You have a thoughtful, intelligent, verifiable, and factual account of the media and their so called “coverage” of events at a certain apartment complex.
They’ve been well paid to print the @MurdochTrashMedia rubbish. The results are theses attacks on innocent people who have done nothing more than attempt to survive is terribly sad.
It’s the most colonialist, white privilege mentality to take a nation from the natives, then complain when people from the global south show up due to issues that we are largely responsible for, to share some of the resources that we’ve exploited from them.
>>"But the dangerous people aren’t those arriving here in search of a better life, it’s the politicians willing to use human beings as props in their stunts. The dangerous people aren’t immigrants without housing, it’s media figures willing to craft and spread narratives that they know might get people killed."
I would say that the most dangerous people are the ones who choose to believe those liars and to ACT on those beliefs. Those whipping up a mob from afar are very much culpable, but they aren't the ones actually doing the violence. Let's be clear. People who choose to engage in mob violence aren't victims. They WANT to believe what they are told, and they remain willfully ignorant to any evidence to the contrary.
One of the reasons the Aurora lie in particular got traction is because Aurora is the most diverse city in Colorado, and has all the typical negative reputational hits among White people because of it. If a landlord made that claim about almost any other place in the Denver metro area, people would have been like, yeah right, Venezuelan gangs in Parker/Lakewood/Thornton? As if. But Aurora, sure, White people are already willing to believe it. Same with Chicago, the right has been talking about crime in Chicago nonstop for decades and White people are already willing to believe any depravity about it.
May I also add that anti immigration rhetoric also serves to dehumanize and other migrants so as to easier exploit them for cheap labor while denying them any benefits or protections. “Disembodying the labor from the migrant worker”
It’s pretty sad to me that a nation of immigrants is becoming increasingly anti immigration. Trump is married to an immigrant and Kamala is the daughter of two immigrants; they cannot logically be anti immigration, but alas…
This needs to go viral.
I just read this and it's also good and relevant to Joshua's excellent piece: https://thewhitepages.substack.com/p/we-are-kinder-than-we-are-cruel
Once again Joshua,
You have a thoughtful, intelligent, verifiable, and factual account of the media and their so called “coverage” of events at a certain apartment complex.
They’ve been well paid to print the @MurdochTrashMedia rubbish. The results are theses attacks on innocent people who have done nothing more than attempt to survive is terribly sad.
Thank you Joshua and spot ON sir.
It’s the most colonialist, white privilege mentality to take a nation from the natives, then complain when people from the global south show up due to issues that we are largely responsible for, to share some of the resources that we’ve exploited from them.
Who was it who said “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself”
Oh yeah Goebbels.
>>"But the dangerous people aren’t those arriving here in search of a better life, it’s the politicians willing to use human beings as props in their stunts. The dangerous people aren’t immigrants without housing, it’s media figures willing to craft and spread narratives that they know might get people killed."
I would say that the most dangerous people are the ones who choose to believe those liars and to ACT on those beliefs. Those whipping up a mob from afar are very much culpable, but they aren't the ones actually doing the violence. Let's be clear. People who choose to engage in mob violence aren't victims. They WANT to believe what they are told, and they remain willfully ignorant to any evidence to the contrary.