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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the Posts obsession with race?  You cannot seem to go by a day without some piece on race in America. Paper is garbage. [/quote]

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And sexuality/gender/ethnicity, etc.  I posted about this a few months ago on a different thread, but I noticed the difference between the WaPo and WSJ immediately.  The WaPo deliberately weaves in race, gender, etc. issues to *every* article.  They cannot just write a piece without making some sort of -ism the focus.  The WSJ, on the other hand, will take a story about real estate, for example, and cite several couples.  Tim and his husband David, or Jane and her partner Stella, for instance.  (Or Sally and her husband Pete, etc. you get the point) That's the only reference to their sexuality.  Just an intro to cover the basics.  They never patronize their audience, they simply state the facts, interview a wide range of people, and get on with it.  [/quote]

They weave race into every piece, [b]EXCEPT[/b] when decsribing the race of violent felons. Then they have a blanket prohibitionon identifing black men. White men are identified as "white shooter' but black men are referred to as simply 'shooter'.

Which is hilarious because black men commit about three times the shootings that white men do.[/quote]

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