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Modern day systemic racism, does it exist?
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<blockquote data-quote="RocksInMyHead" data-source="post: 77661520" data-attributes="member: 284142"><p>Reporting on individual events is generally accurate as it relates to those events (source dependent, of course), but an aggregate of news stories cannot be relied upon to present an accurate overall picture of society. News companies are businesses - they report on things that will make them money, whether that's from people buying print media, paying for subscriptions, or clicking on links and being fed ads. And it's very well-known that controversy and outrage drive engagement. No one's interested in "Dog doesn't bite man" or "People of different cultural backgrounds live together with no conflict", so those types of stories rarely get any coverage.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore (and I believe we've discussed this before), if you search out specific stories, you're going to find them. And if you read them, the search engines and social media algorithms remember what you read and feed you more similar stories. You can watch this happen <em>in real time</em> on Facebook. If you so much as pause over an ad or sponsored post for a second, within minutes you'll start seeing more sponsored posts or ads from that same account/advertiser. This can give you an even more distorted picture of the world - you're not reading the daily edition of the New York Times cover-to-cover; rather, you're reading/watching a selection of stories that Bing and Google and Facebook and TikTok and YouTube think that you will want to watch based on your viewing history.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to believe my account of my experiences (though, seriously, what incentive do I have to lie to you?), but you should recognize and take into account the fact that news stories and other media only represent a very limited window into a society, and that without directly experiencing that society for yourself (or <em>at least</em> talking to people who live in that society), you're not going to get the full picture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocksInMyHead, post: 77661520, member: 284142"] Reporting on individual events is generally accurate as it relates to those events (source dependent, of course), but an aggregate of news stories cannot be relied upon to present an accurate overall picture of society. News companies are businesses - they report on things that will make them money, whether that's from people buying print media, paying for subscriptions, or clicking on links and being fed ads. And it's very well-known that controversy and outrage drive engagement. No one's interested in "Dog doesn't bite man" or "People of different cultural backgrounds live together with no conflict", so those types of stories rarely get any coverage. Furthermore (and I believe we've discussed this before), if you search out specific stories, you're going to find them. And if you read them, the search engines and social media algorithms remember what you read and feed you more similar stories. You can watch this happen [I]in real time[/I] on Facebook. If you so much as pause over an ad or sponsored post for a second, within minutes you'll start seeing more sponsored posts or ads from that same account/advertiser. This can give you an even more distorted picture of the world - you're not reading the daily edition of the New York Times cover-to-cover; rather, you're reading/watching a selection of stories that Bing and Google and Facebook and TikTok and YouTube think that you will want to watch based on your viewing history. You don't have to believe my account of my experiences (though, seriously, what incentive do I have to lie to you?), but you should recognize and take into account the fact that news stories and other media only represent a very limited window into a society, and that without directly experiencing that society for yourself (or [I]at least[/I] talking to people who live in that society), you're not going to get the full picture. [/QUOTE]
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