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News Round-Up: What the Fuck Is Race-Changing Make-up, Tina Fey?

After years of skirting questions and discussions about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and race, Tina Fey decided to nip some shit in the bud and avoid a reckoning. By Lara Witt and Da'Shaun Harrison Another week, another mess. Here is Wear Your Voice's

Jun 26, 2020

News & Politics

Objectivity Is A Myth Built To Maintain White Supremacy

Objectivity in journalism is a product of and plays in favor of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Journalistic objectivity is a myth that works to benefit white supremacy and white supremacists like Stephen Miller. Take, for example, the New York Times article

Feb 20, 2020

Culture and Entertainment

Hysteria By Any Other Name: How Media Rely On The Trope Of Emotional Womanhood

Complicit and complacent media change women's narratives with a series of techniques and alter the way we internalize their stories. Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault By Leslie Kay Jones, PhD On Jan. 15th, 2018, US Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles tweeted with the

Aug 27, 2019

Race

The New York Times is a White Supremacist Publication

White supremacy is insidious and pervasive everywhere, including at The New York Times and other liberal media.

By Jordan Valerie In recent months, liberal news publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post have come under increased scrutiny for their coverage of race. From refusing to describe the president as racist to an obsession with racist “white working class” voters to Nazi-sympathizing profile pieces, the liberal media outlets that proclaim to be the saviors of truth in the era of “fake news” have proven woefully unprepared to cover the normalization of open white nationalism under Donald Trump. This glaring problem goes beyond a few poor editorial decisions; it speaks to the fundamental worldview of these liberal publications – white supremacy. “White supremacist” isn’t a term you usually hear ascribed to the prestigious New York Times. No, white supremacy is a descriptor reserved for Breitbart, and if we’re really brave, Fox News. The liberal New York Times? The same New York Times that Donald Trump wants to sue out of existence? There’s no way they can be described as white supremacist, let alone racist, right? Wrong. White supremacy isn’t limited to websites that feature a “Black Crime” section, like Breitbart. It’s not even limited to conservative publications whose editorial pages are littered with racist op-eds, like The Wall Street Journal and National Review. White supremacy is insidious and pervasive everywhere, including liberal media. Because white supremacy is not just neo-Nazis marching down the streets of Charlottesville, it is the belief that whiteness is supreme; that it must be treasured, cherished, defended, and centered at all times. And that ideology is absolutely reflected in liberal news media such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.