Maybe This Could Be White Racism?

Bren Kelly
6 min readOct 31, 2024

Will the Media Draw the Line and Stop Lowering White Inhibitions?

Have you heard the one about the trans black jew palestinan floating on a latino pile of garbage? Well, they put him in blender because he was allergic to the oven. Get it. MAGA humor is so bro.
Have you heard the one about the trans black jew palestinan floating on a latino pile of garbage? Well, they put him in blender because he was allergic to the oven. Get it? MAGA humor is so bro. [Photo by Christian Buehner on Unsplash]

The media constantly has a problem: they are reporting on the news, wishing to do a “normal” job of objectively reporting. I get it. That’s what we want. But then something funny happens: they turn apologetic whenever they encounter whites in power being racist. Taking advantage of this constant stupidity of ameliorating white male racists (with some Laura Ingram females thrown in), Trump’s “last rally” in Madison Square Garden made a “closing argument” argument by going full bore white racist. Why not? What could go wrong in the media reporting he goes full white racial hatred?

Not much. When a white male running for president goes all out, it’s the same “balancing response” that has continually occurred in the news. It is as when suddenly, they get all deferential. We can see this as the language of white mediation, and this election season it is on full display.

I take these excerpts from the NYTimes, but you could go to almost mainstream source to find “the language of white forgiveness”, which is what I refer to as white mediation language, but you can feel free to call it what you want. In my opinion, I am beginning to think it is on a level below four-letter potty words. Those words at least contain a raw honesty, even if they are floating in the toilet. This…

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling American narratives, born on 50th Women's Lib Day though seeking wider injustices.

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