Ayahuasca wrote:Xenopope wrote:Well, yea, they've been DRIVEN from their homes . . . and there are more of them than the reported number - if you can imagine the entire city . . .
Well duh! I realise that.
I was merely commenting on the bizarreness of having masses of refugees in America, when usually it's third world countries.
I guess it just shows you how quickly life can change, no matter where you are in the world. One minute you're a regular American citizen, a few days later you're classed as a refugee!
There's a lot of linguistic trickery and manipulation going on with this whole deal, and using the term refugee is one of them. I read an article about how the black activists are all up in arms over this whole fiasco, and one of the things that was mentioned was the use of the term "refugee". Some activist said "I hate that word...." He went on to explain that a refugee was a foreigner from another country seeking asylum..............these however are *American citizens.*
So yeah, interesting word choice they've got going on there. A refugee, aka, foreigner that's *far removed from you*.........get it? Distance, apathy, "I don't care what's happening to them, or the city, they're not like me, we're so different........"
Then there's the emphasis on how "poor" most of these people are, as if that makes a difference or has anything to do with anything. I first noticed it when watching video footage of a rooftop helicopter rescue. The obviously very white news woman was narrating the scene in hushed tones, and had to slip it in there that ".....this appears to be a poor neighborhood...."
!?! What does that have to do with anything?? Rich or poor, it's ALL underwater now! Ritzy downtown hotels with their windows blown out and basements flooded out, and rising by the hour. Poor homes on the outskirts of downtown up to their rooftops in water. It doesn't matter. It's ALL gone, rich or poor, white or black. And that wasn't the first time I've read or heard certain words being used during this mess that had nothing at all to do with anything, other than to subtly manipulate and influence the listener / reader, try to steer them in a certain direction. Most people are asleep and won't notice it, and the linguistics will embed in their mind and shape how they view the situation........and the people involved.
How many black people DIDN'T loot and kill and rape little kids? A whole hell of a lot. But the focus has been on the ones that did. I realize it's necessary to report what's going on, but there clearly has been a bias going on in the reporting. water115 mentioned the way that white people were being portrayed when stealing food versus blacks.....with whites, they're just "wading through chest deep water carrying several loaves of bread." When you're black, it's "A young black man wades through chest deep water carrying looted goods..."
Linguistics and manipulative word choices, spin spin spin!
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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