{"id":1365398,"date":"2022-03-08T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365398"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:01:02","slug":"lets-face-it-joy-reid-claims-americans-only-care-about-ukraine-because-theyre-white-and-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-face-it-joy-reid-claims-americans-only-care-about-ukraine-because-theyre-white-and-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s Face It\u2019: Joy Reid Claims Americans Only Care About Ukraine Because They\u2019re \u2018White And Christian\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flets-face-it-joy-reid-claims-americans-only-care-about-ukraine-because-theyre-white-and-christian%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1319141780.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Monday that Americans only cared about Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine because the people of Ukraine are \u201cwhite and Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid compared Russia\u2019s invasion \u2014 and the near-constant shelling of civilian populations in Ukraine \u2014 with the ongoing conflict in Yemen that began in 2015, arguing that the media coverage was starkly different because the color of the people involved was different as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joy Reid makes everything about race again\u2026Claims people are more compassionate towards Ukraine because it\u2019s \u2018White And Christian\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6y7Tsrtx4B\">pic.twitter.com\/6y7Tsrtx4B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1501176689514135562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs the world watches the devastation unfold in Ukraine, nearly 4,000 miles away, another crisis is deepening that we don\u2019t hear much about in the U.S., and that is the war in Yemen,\u201d Reid began, adding,\u00a0\u201cThe coverage of Ukraine has revealed a pretty radical disparity in how human Ukrainians look and feel to western media compared to their browner and blacker counterparts, with some reporters using very telling comparisons in their analyses of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid followed her assessment with several video clips of reporters describing the situation, arguing that the descriptive language they chose to use was giving them away. She also noted that Yemen did not receive the same solidarity from the public and that major corporations were not getting involved in Yemen the way they were in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s face it, the world is paying attention because this is happening in Europe. If this was happening anywhere else would we see the same outpouring of support and compassion?\u201d Reid continued. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to ask ourselves if the international response would be the same if Russia unleashed their horror on a country that wasn\u2019t White and largely Christian, because Russia has already done it in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a teachable moment for us in the media. We aren\u2019t afraid to call out our own industry. There is a lot of soul-searching that we need to do in Western media about why some wars and lives seem to matter more than others,\u201d Reid concluded, adding that the disparity applied to the way western nations treated <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/fastest-growing-refugee-crisis-in-europe-since-world-war-ii-more-than-1-5-million-have-fled-ukraine-since-russian-invasion\/\">refugees<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/the-only-way-to-stop-murder-is-another-murder-ukrainian-man-tells-cnn-that-putin-is-much-worse-than-hitler\/\">fled from the violence<\/a> of those wars as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of soul-searching we need to do in Western media about why some wars, and lives, seem to matter more than others, and why some refugees get the welcome mat, while others get the wall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Another contributor on Reid\u2019s network appeared to be studying the same twisted logic when he posited that some on the far right viewed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a savior of sorts because he also was a \u201cwhite Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Nichols (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioFreeTom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RadioFreeTom<\/a>): \u201cThere are a group of right-wing Republicans who think of Putin as this white Christian savior of civilization w\/ whom we could link arms &#038; make a sort of common defense against the Islamic world &#038; against the encroachment of left-wing civilization&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKzK3s2ccp\">pic.twitter.com\/CKzK3s2ccp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1500809835364986880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are a group of right-wing Republicans who think of Putin as this white Christian savior of civilization with whom we could link arms and make a sort of common defense against the Islamic world &#038; against the encroachment of left-wing civilization,\u201d Nichols claimed.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Monday that Americans only cared about Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine because the people of Ukraine are \u201cwhite and Christian.\u201dReid compared Russia\u2019s invasion \u2014 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}