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There won't be any New York Times articles about this. Even local coverage will be real small But I'll keep getting emails from family and friends about how violent the protests are, how "the message is being lost" Lost by who? It's not lost to us. Who's losing it?
The message isn't lost on those experiencing or witnessing the violence It's lost on reporters who have every interest in maintaining the status quo, who literally get to choose what the message is, and CHOOSE to tilt at "white outsiders"https://twitter.com/MacSmiff/status/1312400282408554497?s=19 …
In reporters' defense, the message about losing the message sells. Readers don't want to think too hard about the brutality that underpins our society. They'd much rather pretend the policing system mostly works despite stacks of bloody evidence to the contrary
Every day it becomes harder for me to have any empathy at all for the people who, with their silence and their hand-wringing, give permission for these things to happen
(you can read my live-tweet coverage of this incredibly goddamn mellow event here: https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/1312251389435764737?s=19 …)
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