Virginia Newspaper prints FULL, UNREDACTED KKK ad as part of a newsstory
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I remember there being some KKK flyers start to appear on cars around where I lived (rural Virginia) not too long ago.
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It's a good thing to want to prove racism is alive and well, something a good amount of America absolutely denies (or agrees but feels it's really against them).
But I'm not sure how this mistake can be made, it seems pretty obvious. You don't prove racism is a problem by giving racism a bigger platform. I mean at least edit out the phone number for Pete's sake. Black folks aren't just going to assume you have the best intentions when you're spreading racist materials.
But I'm not sure how this mistake can be made, it seems pretty obvious. You don't prove racism is a problem by giving racism a bigger platform. I mean at least edit out the phone number for Pete's sake. Black folks aren't just going to assume you have the best intentions when you're spreading racist materials.
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea.
Good idea: reporting on racism still present in the United States
Bad idea: reporting on racism still present in the United States... by printing KKK flyers in full
Good idea: reporting on racism still present in the United States
Bad idea: reporting on racism still present in the United States... by printing KKK flyers in full
Imagine being so terrified of minorities people dress up as ghosts and karate chop the air. What a bunch of fucking cowards. Fuck em.
Yeah, you are right. Would have been a story if they took the organizations money and then put the KKK ad in full on the homepage. Thankfully though they displayed the ad in full on the front page for free.
Close one.
Yeah, I thought they were promoting them. Turns out it was just an anti-KKK story that made a fuckup by posting the whole flier
Oh I thought they were actually supporting the KKK. Clickbait title.
On the one hand, some people are so ignorant they think racism is dead and hopefully this kicks them right in the stomach and makes them do something beneficial culturally.
On the other hand, some people are racist and will consider joining, they will be given support to do racist things because they know there are others who they can find community with.
Overall, I think it is good to get the awareness out that there are assholes in your community. If people are interested in joining they have probably already looked it up on the internet. It would have been prudent to not give contact info, but who knows, maybe people will contact them and show them the bigger community doesn't support their hate. I'm not sure that censorship is the best course of action given the freedom of information we already take for granted. Maybe showing the contact info will be the evidence some people need to really shake them out of their apathy, that without it those same people would have waved it off as fake.
On the one hand, some people are so ignorant they think racism is dead and hopefully this kicks them right in the stomach and makes them do something beneficial culturally.
On the other hand, some people are racist and will consider joining, they will be given support to do racist things because they know there are others who they can find community with.
Overall, I think it is good to get the awareness out that there are assholes in your community. If people are interested in joining they have probably already looked it up on the internet. It would have been prudent to not give contact info, but who knows, maybe people will contact them and show them the bigger community doesn't support their hate. I'm not sure that censorship is the best course of action given the freedom of information we already take for granted. Maybe showing the contact info will be the evidence some people need to really shake them out of their apathy, that without it those same people would have waved it off as fake.
Oh right, they just promoted them by mistake. Surely it was a mistake?
I'm not defending the paper at all. Putting the flyer there was not necessary at all. But I still like reporting the truth.
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We do not need to provide Era users or the internet with the KKK's contact information. Do not post the uncensored ad again.
Yes, it probably was. Unless you think the newspaper is staffed by KKK sympathizers, in which case you should come out and say that.
I'm guessing that the KKK is getting a lot of prank calls right now so maybe it isn't a complete disaster.
Sounds more like they were trying to expose the secret meeting by revealing the location.
I say these KKK people shouldn’t get to fucking hide their meetings.
How is it a secret meeting if you distribute recruitment fliers?
Ehhhh I’m kinda split on this. On one hand, I can see where people think it’s free kkk promotion.
On the other hand, in the actual context of the story on the physical paper, it looks more of a “this shit is happening in our town, be aware that people in this town are openly promoting and distributing flyers like this.” It’s the news providing an uncensored local reality. There are people out there who downplay racism and organizations like the KKK are a thing of the past. This story provides a wake up call.
On the other hand, in the actual context of the story on the physical paper, it looks more of a “this shit is happening in our town, be aware that people in this town are openly promoting and distributing flyers like this.” It’s the news providing an uncensored local reality. There are people out there who downplay racism and organizations like the KKK are a thing of the past. This story provides a wake up call.
i mean i get why it was dumb but where racist people really waiting for an ad in the new paper to join the KKK, they should still remove the number but i think there doing more good then bad.
Huge difference between putting up an ad and displaying it as part of a story. It’s essentially the same as showing Nazi propaganda in its unedited form for educational purposes, not in support of it.
So it's an article about a "disturbing package" that residence got; the article clearly is critiical of the KKK and pointing out how fucked up the whole thing is. Maybe blur out the contact info on the ad of course but the intent seems to be pretty obvious to me.
The idea is they only sent those fliers to people whom they thought might be sympathetic to their views.
There might be a difference between this and historical educational pieces with Nazi propaganda though. I don't know. You tell me.
Don't Newspapers edit out contact information like names and numbers anyway as part of journalism ethics? Or like protection against getting sued? That's a big ooops to make.