Normalised right wing racist nasty called out....

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8. The media has allowed racism to be normalized.

Trump’s blatant claim from the White House after the Charlottesville murder by white nationalists that both sides have good people excused racism as a legitimate position. The media claimed outrage for a couple of days and then it became more of that attitude that it’s just Trump and he’s a different kind of president. He is an abnormal president and far too much of his outrageous behavior has just been excused as being different.

When Trump attacked political correctness, what he was attacking were the standards of civility and decency in the way we treat other people. What his supporters saw was that he approved of open racism and nasty treatment of anyone who dared to be different. The media never even challenged his claims about political correctness—it’s was just about saying Merry Christmas. Yet, when Hillary Clinton talked about the racism and nastiness of Trump and his supporters and called them deplorables (a stupid comment and unforced error), the media played that clip over and over and over. We need a fairness doctrine and we need to go back to limiting ownership of media outlets to get better news.