>>1288767
>I also think its better that the media they produce reflects the public they're trying to sell to than not. is it so hard to understand this concept?
I think representation is good, though I'd argue 1) liberals tend to talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to the topic, and 2) the representation isn't actually accurate or that helpful (for example, idk how many black people were bumming around Middle Ages Scandinavia, but I'm willing to guess it wasn't a lot. Black people are underrepresented in STEM because of crippling poverty and a subsequent lack of valuing education, not because they don't see themselves on TV enough).
Going back to the topic of this thread, NPR explicitly moderating its stories due to whether it makes an identity group look bad or not or whether they fit an agenda, something that Uri Berliner and another former NPR writer who wrote an article in Slate both confirmed did happen, is fucked up and damages its credibility, and I say that as someone who's been listening to NPR and its affiliates since I was a kid.

>>1288786
I've voted for Democrat in every Presidential election I could vote in, and I'll probably vote for Biden again. But his recent foreign policy wrt Israel (basically gave them a blank check) and Ukraine (what does victory look like given that 1991 borders are impossible to recover) and his complete mishandling of the southern border crisis along with inflation have really made me look at the party with more critical eyes. And quite frankly, their constant hammering on identity politics is starting to look out of touch with reality of actual statistics.

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