knot wrote:I'd more describe it as weird priorities or a heavy bias in their reporting. For example on the day ISIS killed 100+ people in Turkey they didn't report on it, but instead brought a story about some Jews in Germany who pushed a reporter around. Lol
I'm not sure about this, but I do know that TYT was reporting about ISIS before the mainstream media.
knot wrote:Then there are the infinite false equivalances, whereby USA and Israel's military are equated with Hamaz -- yes, the human shield-wielding, suicide-bombing terrorist organization. There's a huge ideological divide between the Palestinians and the Israelis that left-wingers love to pretend doesn't exist.
Did they actually
equate the two? Do you have as source?
Even if they did, it's a huge reach to call that Antisemitism. There's quite a large difference between criticizing the Israeli military and being bigoted against Jews.
Seems you're doing what you're accusing TYT of- assuming things are motivated by racism/bigotry when there's no reason to.
knot wrote:
Just read the title of this video. Now I'm not going to watch a 30 min video of Chunky Yogurt talking, but I'm 99,99% sure he will not at any point prove what the title says is remotely accurate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63jF8GMPuM
Chunky Yogurt? Because he's overweight?
Anyway, again, that title is not Antisemetic. I can't really watch the video now (I will later though as it seems interesting), but criticizing Israel is radically different from being bigoted against Jews.
It baffles me that you're suggesting this.
To understand how this can be, let us start with the statistics on police killings. According to the F.B.I.’s Supplementary Homicide Report, 31.8 percent of people shot by the police were African-American, a proportion more than two and a half times the 13.2 percent of African-Americans in the general population. While this data may be imperfect, other sources in individual states or cities, such as in California or New York City, show very similar patterns.
The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: African-Americans are being killed disproportionately and by a wide margin. And police bias may be responsible. But this data does not prove that biased police officers are more likely to shoot blacks in any given encounter.
Seems to support my argument.
Arrest data lets us measure this possibility. For the entire country, 28.9 percent of arrestees were African-American. This number is not very different from the 31.8 percent of police-shooting victims who were African-Americans. If police discrimination were a big factor in the actual killings, we would have expected a larger gap between the arrest rate and the police-killing rate.
Sure, ok. Because the police are more suspicious of black people and investigate them disproportionately (like the article mentioned may be the case).
Here's an example of evidence to support that, brought to you by TYT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yku-MSkN9cM
knot wrote:By who? Themselves? 93% of black murders are committed by other black people. Black people are also much more criminal than any other group, even when adjusting for socio-economic status. They should work on fixing their social issues instead of playing a blame game that leads nowhere
Why do people always reference that statistic about black people, but never mention that most white murders are committed by other white people also?
Of course most black murders are by black people, because they often live near each other. That's not what I'm talking about.
They are systematically persecuted by our government by being prosecuted for crimes at a much greater rate than white people, even though the groups commit those crimes at very similar rates (like with marijuana use, for example).
There's a huge controversy on whether or not government buildings can
hang the confederate flag.
They get killed and pulled over by the police at greater rates than white people, and when they organize and raise awareness, their organizations are labeled hate groups.
Many conservatives (including some running for President) are against the President because he is black. Of course, they don't explicitly say it, but they question his place of birth and college education, and they call him things like 'the food stamp President'.
And can you imagine if a bunch of black people (or Muslims) did an open-carry protest?
knot wrote:Just search for "racist" on their channel. They're obsessed with race like none other. It's very lazy and unhelpful to make it seem like complex social issues are just about racism. It also fuels hatred and unhealthy victim narratives
What? What does them talking about valid racial issues that are prevalent in the country have to do with fueling hatred or claims that all white people are racist?
Even if they weren't valid issues, how does that promote hatred or racism against white people?
You seem to be taking that there are racial issues personally. It reminds me of this conversation I had awhile ago with someone who said that promoting the idea that male privilege exists in western society fuels hatred against men, or something.
But that doesn't make sense. Just because you are apart of a privileged group doesn't mean that you yourself are an oppressor.
Denying that the issues exist, however, enables those oppressors.