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1. hkai+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-11 03:40:09
There seems to be a pattern of similar reporting, and I wonder what are the reasons for that:

- "Police started killing black transgenders now" means "police shot a person who has just killed someone, was suicidal and was pointing a gun at the police"

- "A boy who played in the park was shot by police" means "a boy was pointing an illegally modified replica gun at people in the park".

- "Police randomly shot an unarmed black man who was reading a book" means "a guy who was high and armed tried to pull a gun on a black police officer". (This last bit of fake news caused riots that left 1 dead)

If you don't enrage the readers, then there's really nothing to discuss.

We all agree that people should have the constitutional rights. Most people killed by the police are white. Blacks and whites are killed in equal proportions relative to the number of arrests by race. We all agree that the police makes horrible mistakes sometimes and should be punished.

The media's goal is to make us disagree and hate each other.

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