It's not hard to admit defeat in a argument. I do it sometimes. Usually about pretty minor points but sometimes. Perhaps this is your way of going about that?

Sorry, I must have missed where a bunch of irrelevant cranks saying the above means that smug kid in question was not, in fact, a smug kid in a MAGA hat in 2019 protesting abortion rights.

See my response to Trolly.

What am I wrong about here?

This is just the old cliche of "Dog bites man" vs "Man bites dog" when it comes to news reporting. The Black Israelites are a known hate group and bigoted as hell, but the reality is that they're doing the same spiel ~every day. As awful as it is, it doesn't make the news because it's nothing new. The media ignored that part of the story for the same reason there's not significant coverage of every murder in the country.

As Wookie said, silence is not tacit approval, it's just a reality when it's an unfortunately run-of-the-mill incident in an otherwise somewhat unique story. I 100% guarantee that if asked for their opinion of Black Israelites every member of this forum would say they are a hate group and are known for spouting extremely bigoted rhetoric.

I think the mode response would be "Who?"

I think it's important to understand, some folks like MrWookie do not claim to be consistent. They do not have a problem with hate speech. They have a problem with hate speech coming from a certain demographic. In other words, not all hate speech is equal to them. They find hate speech to be more damaging when it comes (does not?) from a teenager, with no power, who is wearing a political hat, a hat has come to be associated with racism, by some, that teenager having a a facial expression they find unappealing, and anyone who believes it's a life inside a women, is evil (misogynist).

Lol @ no power? How about you compare the groups in question here.

Well....it's better than Trolly and Wookie's effort. But the rationalization and "reality explaining" that is taking place here is pretty extreme.
But what is your claim? That the media can cover any event any which way they want and put any kind of spin on it?
Why not I guess. They are private companies...

I rather not, I'll let you explain how skin color gives people power....I do not want to be accused of not stating your views accurately. I do not think skin color is indicative of power, but I think you do, at least extrinsically.

Lololololololol, you think I am talking about skin color?

I was specifically talking about the fact that the Black Israelites weren't mentioned as part of the story and that is entirely due to it being an unfortunately commonplace incident that was essentially irrelevant to the actual narrative being reported on. If you expect the media to include all peripheral events when reporting a news story we're going to need many more hours in the day to fit it all in.

Regarding the actual coverage, I do think the unique part of the story was blown way out of proportion (first by the left and then by the right). Outside of maybe the first 24 hours or so though I don't think it was "spun" by the media more than any other story.

It's pretty clear your post referenced identity in one way or another. Not race specifically. I don't think 19 year old smug kids wield too much power either regardless of how white they are or how rich their parents are, fwiw.

He was 16 at the time. It was a high school field trip.

You may not be talking about it, but almost certainly your perspective of the black Israelites would be different if they were white. You, the media, nor I would be writing them off as "cranks" if that were the case. I'm not sure what so objectionable to you, the point was, you believe racism or hate speech from a certain demographic is more contemptible, that's one reason why you write off the Black Israelite's contemptible behavior. I do not think I'm doing an injustice to how you think.

The point the others were making was that you treat hate speech differently, and you do, and so does the media.

But what was the narrative being reported on? Smug white kid in maga hat harrasses native americans? The fact that there was a whole other group of people there engaging in worse behavior isn't irrelevant.

Well, at least in a sane world it wouldn't be irrelevant.

LMFAO what an amazing lack of self-awareness, 21 people dead over the weekend from white nationalist terror and you’re furious that we don’t want to spend the day re-hashing the time that poor MAGA teen had his feels hurt.

gtfo with this **** trolly.
We have another thread to discuss that and this talk here that Kelhus has wanted to have has been days coming.

It is no more sensible now than it was on Thursday.

Let's see. Trolly is arguing the WaPo sports is worse hate speech and you and Wiild are arguing that the media can do whatever they want. I'd say you're right

Actually I haven't been, but sure, I would rather they pick their own stories than have you dictate what they cover and how.

Sorry, I should have said eco-nationalist terrorist.

But by all means, let’s relitigate that time teens put on racist paraphernalia and were poorly received by the residents of DC.

At least we’ve finally put Milkshakeghazi to bed.

Part of the thesis for this thread is that media deliberately pushes divisiveness. This story is a good example of how that works. Nothing more nothing less. But you definitely aren't wrong there. Obviously the race of the black israelites is a factor in how they are covered. The media is extremely racial.