I recently saw a forum post titled "Black Woman Trashes Entire Asian Owned Liquor Store Over A Phone Call”
I asked myself why do I need to know this information?
Perhaps for entertainment? Perhaps it would be interesting to know that a someone trashed an entire liquor store over a phone call, kind of like a fun fact I don't know.
I do wonder however what value was just now lost because I exclude racial and gender identifiers. Has it become less important or less interesting?
Am I being told this information so I can build psychological profiles and be prepared the next time I see a black woman on her phone in an asian liquor store. Are these flags that I should be looking for? If a black woman is having a call would it be safer for her to have this call in a Mexican liquor store? Or what if she had the call in a white record store? What then It is a complete unknown. Are there certain formulas which are just dangerous? Can a white man sending a text at a arab liquor store = a murder? Or what if what if an drunk asian walks into a cell phone store that is black owned?
It doesn't seem like this racial or gender information has any actual use, They don't mean anything. We're being given meaningless information, offered up to a random crowd to define them as they see fit. Responsible journalism.
Originally I was thinking about news organizations, how they should be more responsible. Then I clicked to the link to the actual article and the article was titled "Nasty Woman Trashes Entire Asian Owned Liquor Store Over A Phone Call". It's kind of funny, for a second I thought they were trying to be responsible, Then I realized that they never once in the article mentioned the woman's race however they did mention the race of the liquor store (or their owners). Nothing's really changed It's just that with BLM being so recently a newsworthy event, perhaps the author has seen it on TV, and soaked up only the most basic information. So perhaps he knew to exclude black racial indicators but not asians. The problem is we don't watch TV like we study material in school, even when presented with the information, realistically we can't be expected to absorb it all correctly. Moving on.
Still I thought of the person on the forum, who gave all the identifiers. Then the news article itself who was only partially conscious, and then I saw how none of it mattered because in the middle of the news article was a video filmed by a random person we had every little detail in it. However one irresponsible thing the news article did say, is that lady looked like she might have been high on meth, which would only serve to worsen the public image on... well whatever associations available to them to build these images on.
It would have been easy If I could play corporate news organizations for all this, Then at least his problem could have been more easily contained. However in this day and age everyone's a news organization. It's long since overdue for everyone to take responsibility for what everyone is a part of. We are sure to be proud as a nation of how far HUMANITY has come when one person accomplished something and call it OUR achievements. We are united in our successes, but in our failures, we make sure to specifically credit the failed individuals. Clearly there is an imbalance and we should fix it simply because what it represents. We're all part of the news industry, so we're all part of the news we see, we actually represent it.
It's the little things in life, often go unnoticed, that end up mattering most in the end
