john r stanton

john r stanton @dcbigjohn

Racists don’t want you to say they’re racists, and liars don’t want you to say they’re lying. You don’t have to say they’re not racist or not liars for their preferred bias to win. You simply have to NOT call them racists or liars. But that’s what the truth requires to win out — PolitiTweet.org

john r stanton @dcbigjohn

For way too long we’ve allowed bias to be defined as “not saying uncomfortable things about the powerful.” No such stipulation, of course, exists for the powerless. The history of our profession is littered with examples of black and brown people being cast as criminals ... — PolitiTweet.org