Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
The New York Times kicked off 2020 with a large feature story attempting to drum up outrage over the University of Wisconsin’s Homecoming Committee releasing a video which had a lot of white students in it.
Even though the video had many non-white people in it, the New York Times suggested the fact “virtually everyone” in the video “was white” was an indictment of the university in itself.
“A 2-minute video was meant to unite the University of Wisconsin,” The New York Times said. “Instead, it prompted a reckoning over race: Virtually everyone in it was white.”
A 2-minute video was meant to unite the University of Wisconsin. Instead, it prompted a reckoning over race: Virtually everyone in it was white.https://t.co/bYaz02BTbn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 1, 2020
“The outrage was almost instantaneous,” the Times claimed, before going on to insist the video “galvanized and divided a university plagued by a history of racist incidents.”
(The first article the Times linked to claimed some people allegedly shouted a racial slur out of their car, someone scrawled a racial slur on an Obama biography and some sororities girls mimicked an Asian accent as part of a skit. The second article was a story about someone having scrawled the N-word in a bathroom.)
“It made people uncomfortable, seeing a lot of people who look alike representing the university,” The Times quoted student newspaper reporter Emilie Cochran as saying, “And it woke people up, saying, this is actually what our university looks like.”
Wisconsin is 85.6% white, 6.4% black, 2.76% Asian. University of Wisconsin-Madison is 69.9% White, 5.58% Asian, 4.81% Hispanic, 2.91% Two or More Races, 2.25% Black or African American, 0.221% so it isn’t shocking that a video of the University of Wisconsin would be mostly white
— Greg West (@GregWest_HALOJM) January 1, 2020
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