What’s with the media’s obsession with the opinions of known trolls like Matt Walsh?! Fuck, stop highlighting his drivel and that of people like him. You’re giving them free advertising!
Maga melting down over a black performer isn’t news. It’s olds!
Welcome to seeing the white supremacist hegemony. They’ll platform racists criticizing Black Art forms, but they’ll actively avoid giving any room for those Black Art forms. You see it everywhere in what artists get radio promotion and algorithmic boosts vs who toils in the underground for years, or else releases a couple EPs, a couple of mixtapes, and then goes into a boring graphic design job because shit, they need food man.
for sure. and it was extremely gratifying. kendrick is a master of understanding propaganda, messaging, and co-opting broadcasts because he studies the entirety of everything that hip hop has ever been from its early years to now. but i’m not talking about one moment. i’m talking about the entire cycle of media promotion and analysis we exist in, and that favors pro-capitalist, patriarchal, white centered view points. but that conservatives criticizing it gets more airtime than than critics of the system celebrating it is neither a surprise nor an accident.
You’re right. I have to think pretty hard to name a single black artist because of how little attention they get in the media. Meanwhile, practically every white group formed by friends in high school gets a tour and record deal.
EDIT: This turns out to just be a folklore factoid after all, see the comment replying to this one
Forgive the tangential side-note: Although I get that “news” vs. “olds” was justified punning, I still want to mention what I think is interesting about the term “news”, and seems to be in danger of being forgotten. I remember learning in school (pre-internet so I couldn’t easily verify) that the origin of the word “news” was “North, East, West, South”.
Very cool, thanks for finding that. I must admit that factlet (which turns out to be a factoid after all) always hovered in a grey-area part of my brain between “interesting enough to remember” and “urgent enough to actually research/verify” (hence why I wisely added the “not verified” parenthesis).
What’s with the media’s obsession with the opinions of known trolls like Matt Walsh?! Fuck, stop highlighting his drivel and that of people like him. You’re giving them free advertising!
Maga melting down over a black performer isn’t news. It’s olds!
Welcome to seeing the white supremacist hegemony. They’ll platform racists criticizing Black Art forms, but they’ll actively avoid giving any room for those Black Art forms. You see it everywhere in what artists get radio promotion and algorithmic boosts vs who toils in the underground for years, or else releases a couple EPs, a couple of mixtapes, and then goes into a boring graphic design job because shit, they need food man.
Yeah for some reason nobody has on a black man to criticize white culture but they will do the opposite often.
and if he does he’s too much, too loud, too political, reading too far into things, or needs to learn to take a joke. always bugs me
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I hear you and all. But this post is about a Black Art form being performed by exclusively Black artists on one of the largest platforms available.
for sure. and it was extremely gratifying. kendrick is a master of understanding propaganda, messaging, and co-opting broadcasts because he studies the entirety of everything that hip hop has ever been from its early years to now. but i’m not talking about one moment. i’m talking about the entire cycle of media promotion and analysis we exist in, and that favors pro-capitalist, patriarchal, white centered view points. but that conservatives criticizing it gets more airtime than than critics of the system celebrating it is neither a surprise nor an accident.
You’re right. I have to think pretty hard to name a single black artist because of how little attention they get in the media. Meanwhile, practically every white group formed by friends in high school gets a tour and record deal.
Conflict drives engagement
EDIT: This turns out to just be a folklore factoid after all, see the comment replying to this one
Forgive the tangential side-note: Although I get that “news” vs. “olds” was justified punning, I still want to mention what I think is interesting about the term “news”, and seems to be in danger of being forgotten. I remember learning in school (pre-internet so I couldn’t easily verify) that the origin of the word “news” was “North, East, West, South”.
I’m sure that’s what’s you were taught, but it’s not true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/news-etymology/
It doesn’t work in other languages either.
The Dutch word for news is nieuws, but that does not form an acronym of noord, oost, west, zuid.
The German word is Nachrichten. Which is very far from Nord Ost Süd West.
Very cool, thanks for finding that. I must admit that factlet (which turns out to be a factoid after all) always hovered in a grey-area part of my brain between “interesting enough to remember” and “urgent enough to actually research/verify” (hence why I wisely added the “not verified” parenthesis).