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Originally Posted by blankall
It's a little more directed than this. Bipartisanship has taken over huge swaths of our society, including the media. Letting in migrants became associated with the left. Therefore, the left will try to downplay or hide this. As you've said had it been a story they could have linked to white privilege (frat boys) or gun control, this would have been all over every left wing news source.
The right wing news sources are just as bad. It's a huge global problem that unbiased news reporting is so difficult to come by. News sources (and people in general) will use a total lack of judgement or even outright lie when reporting the news, as long as it pushes their agenda and/or makes them profit.
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I've come to see it as less a constellation of beliefs as conflicting narratives. Take Israel - what is their narrative? A story about a historically oppressed group of people doing the best they can to survive while surrounded by genocidal barbarians intent on murdering them to the last man, woman and child? Or an oppressive regime backed by imperialists that remorselessly kills thousands indiscriminately, preserving awful living conditions for the exiled poor they've made into permanent refugees, while living in relative luxury in their stolen homeland? It's no wonder that topic is totally unsusceptible to reasonable conversation. We're seeing this more and more on more and more issues.
You've actually seen this sort of thinking become explicit lately - we have a particular narrative in which the following people are good and the following are bad, and noticing exceptions or nuance would challenge this narrative. When cast in this way, it becomes a little easier to see how people with different ideological perspectives can look at the same world and see completely different things.