erin mccann |Verified account

Why the Times ENDLESSLY finds white Trump supporters, but isn't too interested in white public sector workers organizing in a socialist sense to disrupt the capitalist oligarchy in the state of WV.

Sometimes, media shows its hand by actively disparaging challenges to the status quo. This often happens in collusion with the state. This happened with the disparagement of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and—in his time—with MLK's Poor People's Campaign.

Sometimes, media shows its hand more passively by not covering things, such as mostly ignoring the WV strike. Sometimes, media shows its hand by saying things are inevitable, that are NOT! (I am talking about the zeitgeist of media coverage, of course. There are exceptions.)

A lot of post Parkland talk has been that American violence can NOT ever be changed. This isn't true—it can be changed, but it's going to take a LOT of work, and a LOT of thinking, over a long period of time. But media needn't cast it as inevitable, but they do bc often media

is tied into the same interests as the police, military and state.

I often wonder, too, if the critical reporting on Amazon (and there has been a lot, and it is great) also creates a sense in the national consciousness that Amazon is too big to beat, can be wretched and yet still win. This is where the WV silence is shameful.

Amazon could be beat in its horrific labor and economic policies if: -Workers organized like WV -If politicians demanded it behave better -If consumers organized like Montgomery (circa '55-56) & didn't buy from them Media's Overton Window doesn't let this even be considered.

As a gay man, I was HORRIFIED to see this open letter of LGBT people begging Amazon to go to an LGBT friendly state. After everything we know about Amazon's anti-worker policies (including anti-LGBT workers), queer politicos shouldn't be begging their crumbs.