Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis claims that only Christians are entitled to religious freedom: "It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life."
been wondering this most days of both of trump’s presidencies… how the fuck do we continue when any one of those scandals should have wrecked an administration?
A great deal of this has to do with mainstream, established media. There is still a strong unspoken assumption that mainstream media speaks for all of us. This is how we can all be pissed off about a specific thing and yet honestly think nobody cares, just because mainstream media doesn’t report it as a problem.
When the media reports something across the board as a problem and continues to do so without letting up, change is quick to follow.
But when it reports something as not a problem, or fails to report it much at all, that seems to be a cue that no correction is necessary.
For example, compare and contrast reporting on presidential mental acuity during the Biden administration vs Trump’s administration: this is a perfect example of how the media treats the same problem very differently depending on who’s got the problem, even when the problem itself is magnitudes more obvious, serious, and damaging in one case than in the other.
This media selectivity has always been there to some extent, but this weird media equivocation toward Republican misbehavior really seemed to go off the deep end in the summer of 2015; I remember hearing some Republican who got caught doing something and expecting the same old tired apology, but instead he said the equivalent of, “Deal with it, I don’t care.” And it’s been that way ever since, as though they all got the memo that the fix was in.
Even now, no one I know personally has stopped talking about the Epstein files or caring about them, except the media. Same thing.
Feel free to disagree, but I don’t even have to guess that if Zohran Mamdani, as a very hypothetical example, said religious freedom only belongs to Muslims, white billionaire heads would explode and no mainstream news outlet would let go of it until the end of days. But this well-connected right-wing white pseudo-christian woman can drop that load on live tv and mainstream media doesn’t even blink.
Because humanity has a real issue with breaking down established hierarchies. Once a hierarchy is built up, there’s almost an implicit structure to it that we recognize and pay way too much heed to; which I have no idea how to fight back against.
How do I live I a world where saying something like this doesn’t end a person’s public career?
been wondering this most days of both of trump’s presidencies… how the fuck do we continue when any one of those scandals should have wrecked an administration?
they give zero fucks
A great deal of this has to do with mainstream, established media. There is still a strong unspoken assumption that mainstream media speaks for all of us. This is how we can all be pissed off about a specific thing and yet honestly think nobody cares, just because mainstream media doesn’t report it as a problem.
When the media reports something across the board as a problem and continues to do so without letting up, change is quick to follow.
But when it reports something as not a problem, or fails to report it much at all, that seems to be a cue that no correction is necessary.
For example, compare and contrast reporting on presidential mental acuity during the Biden administration vs Trump’s administration: this is a perfect example of how the media treats the same problem very differently depending on who’s got the problem, even when the problem itself is magnitudes more obvious, serious, and damaging in one case than in the other.
This media selectivity has always been there to some extent, but this weird media equivocation toward Republican misbehavior really seemed to go off the deep end in the summer of 2015; I remember hearing some Republican who got caught doing something and expecting the same old tired apology, but instead he said the equivalent of, “Deal with it, I don’t care.” And it’s been that way ever since, as though they all got the memo that the fix was in.
Even now, no one I know personally has stopped talking about the Epstein files or caring about them, except the media. Same thing.
Feel free to disagree, but I don’t even have to guess that if Zohran Mamdani, as a very hypothetical example, said religious freedom only belongs to Muslims, white billionaire heads would explode and no mainstream news outlet would let go of it until the end of days. But this well-connected right-wing white pseudo-christian woman can drop that load on live tv and mainstream media doesn’t even blink.
Because humanity has a real issue with breaking down established hierarchies. Once a hierarchy is built up, there’s almost an implicit structure to it that we recognize and pay way too much heed to; which I have no idea how to fight back against.