Privileged Ukrainians
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Europeans with blond hair and blue eyes get all the breaks
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-journalist-media-russia-ukraine-racial-biases
NY Times journalist suggests media concern for Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates racial 'biases'
'1619 Project' creator urges reporters covering Ukraine to 'really look internally'
New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones offered a surprising take Sunday on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and its media coverage.
The 1619 Project author commented on a local writer’s description of "incidents of insidious racism" in the media, claiming that concern is only for "Europeans with blond hair and blue eyes."
Hannah-Jones agreed with the writer on the "racialized" analysis.
"Every journalist covering Ukraine should really, really look internally. This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them. Many of us see the racialized analysis and language," Hannah-Jones tweeted.
She also added that the "admissions of shock" for Ukraine suggest a racial bias due to a lack of attention for nonwhite nations.
"And honestly, these admissions of shock that this is happening in a European country are ahistorical and also serve to justify the lack of sympathy for other invasions, other occupations and other refugee crisis [sic] involving peoples not considered white," Hannah-Jones added.
When a Twitter user criticized her take as well as its timing, she responded, "That’s absolutely ridiculous. Journalists shouldn’t focus on improving their coverage in real time?"
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She was born an idiot, has lived as an idiot and will die an idiot. Simply put...
Idiot.
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She has a point. There are African nations invading each other every other week and we ignore it.
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She has a point. There are African nations invading each other every other week and we ignore it..
Name me one African nation with nuclear capability, then tell me whether that nation or any African nation for that matter, can pose a threat to global security.
I do not believe she has a point.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Privileged Ukrainians:
She has a point. There are African nations invading each other every other week and we ignore it.
She only has a point if the reason for the discrepancy is skin color. Is that really the most obvious difference? It's most obvious to her, but that's because skin color is her life and her reason for waking up in the morning.
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This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them.
Physician, heal thyself.
