Reply #9: I would say "reverse racism" is a canard [View All]

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if I knew what a canard was.

....oh, I looked it up:

"an absurd or exaggerrated report spread as a hoax."

.....and as it turns out, that's what I'm suggesting this ugly meme spat at "blonde white chicks" is. Where is it REALLY coming from? Why is it so prevalent on DU? Is it gonna be like other trash/ing-- one person starts and others just keep throwin it down?

It's understandable that people would get fed up with a media that shows white-bread images of whites predominantly-- that attempts to include people of color still are frequently limited to cliches and THE SAME KIND OF DISMISSIVENESS that women object to.

The great comments here point out that the media is messing with ALL of us. Whatever their image-du-jour to yank those eyeballs from the competition is what they'll show. And now with less and less actual competition, they can indulge in bald-faced brainwashing-- erm, I mean programming-- of the viewers.

If people (and especially DUers) don't appreciate having their chain yanked with hackneyed cliches using women as bait for news stories, they can turn it off; they can do something about it; or they can repeat the memes and perpetuate the cliches that the media barons are repackaging and selling over and over and over.......

This issue is another example of how women are STILL the one group it is okay to denigrate-- so much so that some DUers almost get hit in the noggin as the point goes sailing by their heads.