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Inviso posted...

Because Fox News sets the tone for not just GOP talking points, but apparently left-wing media talking points as well (based on that graph of crime reporting from a few weeks ago). So what they do and say does have a major impact on how politics are viewed, and the thing I find questionable is this whole "I'm only against it because it's pandering" argument. It's easy to say that, but my argument is that if Biden said nothing and just nominated KBJ, Fox News would run the same attack ads: it's woke pandering. And they'd repeat this again and again and again, and it would become a staple GOP talking point, because at the end of the day, unless the Dems replaced straight, white man Stephen Breyer with a straight, white man nominee, the nomination would ALWAYS wind up being called pandering and a woke attack on American norms or something. Fox News sets the tone, and the rest of the party follows suit.

I just don't buy that, if the GOP picked up the ball and started running with it, calling KBJ's nomination pandering non-stop, that you, Corrik, would not have had that thought invade your brain like an earworm. I think regardless of whether Biden said anything about nominating a black woman or not, due to sheer osmosis, it would get into your head that the only reason he picked KBJ was to pander to black voters or something, and you'd be just as upset and believe that to be his reason. KBJ would then no longer be the "best choice for the job", because she would have only been chosen to pander.

I want to make it very clear: I am not calling you a racist. However, I believe some people much higher on the totem pole are. Racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. And to those people, any threat to white dominance over our culture and government is dangerous to them, so they use their positions of power, either in government, or in the "news" media to push a narrative that picking a woman over a man is pandering. Picking a black person over a white person is pandering. And you repeat that over and over again, and it burrows into your head. And then, even though you yourself aren't racist, you've reached the exact conclusions the racists want you to reach about KBJ...namely that she's not as deserving as someone else who was passed over for being a white guy.

I am usually the one that is leading the charge for being annoyed by Democrat pandering with the people I know. And at work they literally call me "the democrat" now because you know not being full aboard for Trump isn't republican enough now.

The thing is, I have for years been talking about the pandering and the media's goal to rouse racial division for views, especially when it comes to election years.

I don't think it came from Tucker or whatever, but if it did, I probably would fully agree with him on that subject.