Maybe i’ve just always been skeptical, but i’ve never trusted “the media” any more than i trust you telling me “they are lying to us”

everybody has a bias… and if people can derive a livelihood from something you can bet they have a bias.

the media had always had a bias..

Never in my years have i witnessed a president who didn’t frequently rail against media bias. Is it worse now maybe… or maybe it seems worse because media instead of being the 6 o’clock news is now a steady stream of talking heads, 24 hours a day every day all year. I’m not sure that is quite the same thing as media bias being worse… or if media is just omnipresent.

still… my point is nobody should ever just believe anything that someone tells them IF it is important to them. That has always been true.

So if i’m going to judge a black mans chances of getting shot i need something more than simple stats like you cite… or worse still like austin cites. My real problem with austin is that i suspect (i could well be wrong) he is smart enough to know the comparison he made is friggin absurd, meaningless but he’s not trying to make a valid point he’s just feeding the frenzy of racists who don’t really want to think about this.. they just want a reason to grab the gas can and some bedsheets.

and you know better too.. but i am more inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt because i don’t see you writing this sort of stuff day after day.

really someone needs to figure out the ratio of shootings per police encounter for multiple races… and even then the numbers won’t tell the full story.

then there is the whole black lives matter pushback. i will admit when i first heard it my knee-jerk reaction was .. wait… what about me? But the more i thought about it i quickly realized that was absurd… nobody is saying my life doesn’t matter… so why do i have to take it that way.. why can’t i just agree… sure black lives DO matter. say that and believe it… and we all get to live happily ever after.. no harm, no foul.

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