The Media betrays itself on racial crime issues.

[I am Groot]

American and Canadian media are predictable in some ways. They will seize upon any crime that has a white perpetrator and a non-white victim and play it up huge, even if there is no reason to suspect racism is involved. They will 'infer' racism. They will talk about it endlessly in light of this 'horrible' crime. For example, there was never any evidence of racism in the  George Floyd thing. He wasn't targeted for his race, and there's no reason to believe he would have been treated any differently had he been white. But the mainstream media in Canada, the US and the UK played it up big as him being the victim of the racist police. There has been example after example of this for decades now.

But when it's a black criminal and a White or Asian victim (which is BY FAR the majority as per statistics), the media downplays the crime or doesn't cover it at all. They do this, they will tell you privately, so as not to stoke racism against blacks. When a gang of black criminals jump someone and rob and beat them, they are identified as "youths" or "a crowd". Their one unifying characteristic is never mentioned. There are huge numbers of black on white rapes, for example, as per us and uk stats), and virtually none the other way around. This is never mentioned in the media. This is because the media strives to avoid inflaming public opinion towards blacks (but not the other way around). It avoids stories it thinks will stoke racism, stories that will, for want of a better phrase 'make black people look violent or criminal'.  At the same time, it doesn't hesitate to inflame black opinion, causing riots.

What brings this to mind is the horrifying image of the murder of a young Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte. The mainstream media chose to ignore it, no matter how shocking a case it was. A large black man who had never met her and never spoken to her rose up from the seat behind where a tiny Iryna Zarutska was sitting with earphones in and scanning her cell phone, and stabbed her to death. He was, of course, well-known to the police, having been arrested and jailed many times. The media utterly ignored the story even as it blew up online. Only when it got to the point wel-known figures, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump were talking about it, did the mainstream media very grudgingly mention the story. They still downplayed it, however, and most chose not to show the pictures or video because they are both shocking and provocative. 

By provocative, I mean they will provoke exactly the feelings in whites (and asians) that the mainstream media strives mightily to avoid giving. There can be no better image of the 'Black Menace', the fear so many white and asian people have of black men and their notorious and unpredictable violence (as per us statistics). It's something we're all aware of but the media ignores. I don't ride public transit, but when I used to, I never would have sat down in front of a black guy wearing a hoodie on a warm summer day. I would never put my back to such a person. But she was from Ukraine and probably just wasn't aware of the danger she was putting herself into.

But every white and asian person who sees this image is going to remember it and be even more wary of black men than they already are. And also more wary of the mainstream media and its constant efforts at censoring the news in order to not cause them to feel or think or say things the media does not feel they should. I recognize that its well-meaning, but it's also corrupting, and increases people's distrust of the media. We don't want a media that self-censors because they feel it's not right for us to know things. We want to make those decisions ourselves. And this leads to people accusing them of having an agenda, and of tailoring the news to meet it.

 

Edited September 11, 2025 by I am Groot

[I am Groot]

This meme probably describes the media on this subject best. Note, the stats are actually from 2018. Not sure why they changed the title.

 

Edited September 11, 2025 by I am Groot

[Barquentine]

13 hours ago, I am Groot said:

For example, there was never any evidence of racism in the  George Floyd thing. He wasn't targeted for his race, and there's no reason to believe he would have been treated any differently had he been white.

But it was part of a pattern of cops killing blacks unnecessarily.

 

13 hours ago, I am Groot said:

What brings this to mind is the horrifying image of the murder of a young Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte. The mainstream media chose to ignore it, no matter how shocking a case it was.

Stop lying. It was covered by all the media. We had a similar case in Canada a decade ago. A schizophrenic decapitated a stranger on a bus. Nothing to do with race in either case. Schizophrenia was the cause.

[I am Groot]

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

But it was part of a pattern of cops killing blacks unnecessarily.

There is no such pattern. Aside from rare cases, police shoot blacks because blacks are armed.

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

 

Stop lying. It was covered by all the media. 

It was ignored by the media until it became too big a story to ignore due to people like Trump and Musk talking about it. The media self-censors. It doesn't want to get people angry at blacks. That's laudable but dishonest in that it's not their job to censor what they tell people, so they won't get upset. And it never happens in reverse. The media never hesitates to get black people worked up and angry at a case of a black man killed by a white man. It leads people to believe the media has an agenda, be it ideological or political, and directs stories to influence people towards their own views.

[User]

On 9/11/2025 at 5:23 AM, Barquentine said:

But it was part of a pattern of cops killing blacks unnecessarily.

No such racial pattern existed.

[eyeball]

On 9/10/2025 at 3:38 PM, I am Groot said:

American and Canadian media are predictable in some ways. They will seize upon any crime that has a white perpetrator and a non-white victim and play it up huge, even if there is no reason to suspect racism is involved.

That's because sensationalizing stories is how they increase their profits. This is what they all have to do to compete. If they don't they die.

Why is this always such a mystery to you MSM paranoiacs?

Get a bigger salt grinder or something.

[I am Groot]

17 hours ago, eyeball said:

That's because sensationalizing stories is how they increase their profits.

The story of the Ukrainian girl being murdered by that black savage was ripe for sensationalizing, but the media didn't. Why not?

[Michael Hardner]

17 hours ago, eyeball said:

 

Why is this always such a mystery to you MSM paranoiacs?

 

The threat is not about mainstream media, but according to the op it's about media. 

 

So that includes THE REBEL that gets involved in literal schoolyard fights, if there's Muslims involved... That sends its reporters to charge the Prime Minister's security detail and then blubbers about police brutality or whatever. 

 

It's all emotionality, and refusal to look at objective facts.  If you quote things like economic consensus on the benefits of immigration from Canadian business, then they raise the conspiracy flag.

Edited December 28, 2025 by Michael Hardner

[User]

14 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

So that includes THE REBEL that gets involved in literal schoolyard fights, if there's Muslims involved... That sends its reporters to charge the Prime Minister's security detail and then blubbers about police brutality or whatever. 

Wait, are you talking about the time one of their reporters was harmlessly walking down the sidewalk asking the finance minister questions, and one of the security team steps into his way on his blindside, and he barely bumps into them?

Yeah, that was a setup and abuse of police authority to manhandle him and arrest him for assault. 

No one was sent to "charge" a security detail. Please tell me you are not characterizing the above incident like you are. Talk about woefully dishonest BS if you are. 

 

[Michael Hardner]

8 hours ago, User said:

Wait, are you talking about the time one of their reporters was harmlessly walking down the sidewalk asking the finance minister questions 

Yes, selective editing provides exactly the kind of propaganda people like you need to believe in.  Look up David Menzies, he's a publicity clown not a journalist. Of course, if anybody says anything bad about Trudeau they're automatically a beacon of Truth in your eyes.

[User]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

Yes, selective editing provides exactly the kind of propaganda people like you need to believe in.  Look up David Menzies, he's a publicity clown not a journalist. Of course, if anybody says anything bad about Trudeau they're automatically a beacon of Truth in your eyes.

There was no selective editing and right now you are pushing the lies.

You can’t engage honestly on what actually happened so you instead have to make a hasty generalization about me believing someone if they say anything bad Trudeau.

You are woefully and dishonestly distorting what happened, as no one was sent to charge security.