‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster

[Chicks]

‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster
Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/...g-race-baiting

Fomenting hate, misinformation, grifters. Whell’s World.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster
Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/...g-race-baiting

Fomenting hate, misinformation, grifters. Whell’s World.

United they stand, divided they fall. It's the Republican plan.

[Dondilion]

A reasonable article but it conveniently left out a significant facet of the right bellyaching...the Ukraine one.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

A reasonable article but it conveniently left out a significant facet of the right bellyaching...the Ukraine one.

These MAGA wingnuts who excuse Putin are enabling industrial scale murder. Putin hates America and those Americans who think Putin likes them are fooling themselves. He just uses and amplifies their rhetoric because he knows it weakens America. This seems lost on you, tovarich.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

A reasonable article but it conveniently left out a significant facet of the right bellyaching...the Ukraine one.

Significant in that the propaganda targets do indeed get more significantly resentful, yes.

Significant in that there's any actual relationship between aid to Ukraine and disaster prevention and relief here--poppycock!

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Significant in that the propaganda targets do indeed get more significantly resentful, yes.

Significant in that there's any actual relationship between aid to Ukraine and disaster prevention and relief here--poppycock!

Poppycock indeed!
What a naive group!
It is crying over photo-ops and still believe it has special call on the resources of the US.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Poppycock indeed!
What a naive group!
It is crying over photo-ops and still believe it has special call on the resources of the US.

Expand on that please?

Baby steps. Say what all that means. What group is naive? What photo-ops? Who or what is that unspecified "it" that has a special call on what resources?

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster
Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/...g-race-baiting

Fomenting hate, misinformation, grifters. Whell’s World.

This is actually pretty funny coming from the left. You and your fellow travelers politicize everything. It's also a prominent strategy with the left to opportunistically blame their political opponents, particularly when the left's own policies fail.

Just a few events that come to mind that have been politicized by the left include Hurricane Katrina (for that matter, the left has politicized the damn weather), the Flint water issue, and COVID 19 to name a few. After years of politicizing the rising cost of health care - something the left has historically played a significant role - all of the cost issues that health care delivery ever had have now been institutionalized in the form of the Affordable Care Act.

Hell, it was YOU Chicklet that posted here the same crap that appeared last week in some of the lefty media outlets that blamed Trump for "slashing regulations that might have prevented" the train incident in Ohio. Then, you go find another article that chastizes the "right "for how they supposedly "racialized the Ohio train disaster". You're hilarious!

It was the left that cast the Flint water crisis in racial terms, as well as the Fed's response to Hurricane Katrina. Never mind that there were many factors that influenced the chain of events in both cases, and none of them had anything to do with race.

The problem is more likely Buttigieg's own making. Regardless of politics, the train derailing in Ohio could turn out to be a massively significant event: both from and environmental and transportation safety perspective. The head of the EPA was on-site. Pete B had no plans to do so until the public criticism got loud enough. When he was interviewed about Ohio, his responses were mechanical or tone-deaf.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

This is actually pretty funny coming from the left. You and your fellow travelers politicize everything.

The largest cable news network in the country does nothing other than politicize shit, from M&M's to Mr. Potato Head to things that aren't even happening (e.g., CRT curricula in elementary schools, FBI terrorizing innocent school parents). Indeed they're on trial at this very moment for deliberately selling Trump's election lies for profit/market share.

It was the left that cast the Flint water crisis in racial terms, as well as the Fed's response to Hurricane Katrina. Never mind that there were many factors that influenced the chain of events in both cases, and none of them had anything to do with race.

And if you think race played no role in either, you're even more ignorant than I previously thought (and that's saying something).

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And if you think race played no role in either, you're even more ignorant than I previously thought (and that's saying something).

Other than demographics and the role the media wanted race to play in the reporting of those events, race didn't play a role in either. Race became a convenient scapegoat for blame-shifting politicians and a willing media looking for an easy narrative, but that's about it.

Oh, and if you want to play the race card in Flint's case, OK that's up to you. But can you help me understand what racial bias influenced Darnell Early - the person who lead the effort to make the decision to move from the Detroit Water system to water sourced from the Flint River - to make the decisions that he made regarding the switch?