You don't hate journ*lists enough etc... Or: when glowies and journos work together against the citizens

One brave user, /u/Several-Panic-8164, notices inconsistencies in the way the New York Times reported the latest ATF stats:

“A majority of people investigated for owning, selling or using an illegal gun are white, more than 80 percent are men and the overwhelming majority — 95 percent — are U.S. citizens, according to the report.”

It seemed curious that the NY Times described the exact percent of cases involving men, the exact percent involving citizens vs. noncitizens, but relied on the more blunt “a majority … are white " when it came to describing race.

I took a closer look at the study itself and the exact racial percentage breakdown provided in the ATF report is as follows:

White: 53%

Black: 45%

Asian or Native American: 2%

Obviously chuds don't miss this opportunity to remind everyone of the journoid menace:

I can't help but think that the NY Times was acting very intentionally when they framed those statistics.

Of course it was intentional. Doing so suits their stances on both race and gun control.

I'm still astounded about how the 2020 summer riots, which killed dozens and lead to cities across the country being trashed , were very much created by the media selectively reporting race to push a false narrative and create an extreme amount of racial animosity. And there seems to be no discussion about this . Even on the right you just get "mostly peaceful protests!" memes. You'd think that this would be a better target for congressional investigations than Hunter Biden .

I remember asking a friend who taught Ibram X. Kendi's book in his classroom about how many unarmed black people were shot to death by police each year. He guessed 400. He was shocked to learn that the number is generally around 20.

One redditoids is left shocked at the heckin bad faith article by a respected media:

I don't understand the purpose of doing this. Like why?

Thankfully the chuds are out to set the record straight:

To fight racism.

Many journ*lists see it as their mission to raise the social status of BIPXCs () and lower the social status of white people. So they spin everything in a way that makes white people look bad, and for minorites (black people in particular) look virtuous, or falling that, at least victimized.

It's so ridiculous. The people doing this are mostly white too. I don't know how fried your brain has to be to decide you need to throw your own people under the bus.

Also, to paint "gun crime" as an issue of white dudes in the suburbs , the enemy demographic, rather than black gangs in cities, who they consider to be on the team.

"Per-capita" makes an appearance:

Note the waffling on whether total or per capita statistics are more important. When talking about getting killed by police (~50% non-Latinx white, ~25% black), they want to emphasize per-capita numbers. When we're talking about who commits crimes, or who receives welfare, suddenly it's the totals that matter, and "per capita" is a racist dog whistle.

Remember, folks:

Kill journ*lists

Behead journ*lists

Roundhouse kick a journ*list into the concrete