{"id":1862729,"date":"2023-02-28T03:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T08:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862729"},"modified":"2023-02-28T03:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T08:22:35","slug":"medias-racialized-coverage-of-the-east-palestine-train-wreck-is-yet-another-toxic-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medias-racialized-coverage-of-the-east-palestine-train-wreck-is-yet-another-toxic-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Media\u2019s Racialized Coverage Of The East Palestine Train Wreck Is Yet Another Toxic Disaster"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmedias-racialized-coverage-of-the-east-palestine-train-wreck-is-yet-another-toxic-disaster%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=1862729&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-->\n<p>Greg Sargent, Washington Post, acknowledges the hazardous chemical catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio in an article. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/02\/21\/east-palestine-train-derailment-tucker-carlson-jd-vance-fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feb. 21 column<\/a>Is. &#8220;a story about profit-driven rail companies underinvesting in safety, lobbyists weakening rail regulation, and the government&#8217;s failure to assure residents&#8217; security from lingering toxins.&#8221; The corporate media appear to act unilaterally by refusing to listen to the concerns of the right regarding the crisis. The New York Times even tries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/16\/technology\/ohio-train-derailment-chernobyl.html\">described<\/a> right-wing criticisms as though they were overly cynical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And even though the liberal pundit Sargent is willing to acknowledge the current presidential administration may bear part of the blame for this humanitarian and ecological crisis, he avers that &#8220;what&#8217;s objectionable is the right&#8217;s deliberate racializing of this story.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even amid an apolitical tragedy, the corporate media make the right the bad guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Tired Newsflash: Liberal Attacks Conservatives on Race <\/p>\n<p>Sargent is referring to various comments by conservative pundits and Republican politicians who have tarred Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as being negligent and abandoning working-class white communities in favor of woke policies. Buttigieg earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained<\/a> about construction projects in &#8220;neighborhood[s] of color,&#8221; where &#8220;everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don&#8217;t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood&#8221; \u2014 or, in other words, too many white construction workers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/media\/4000684\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsmartin218\/status\/1625877607643316224\">J.D. Vance<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/charlie-kirk\/charlie-kirk-says-ohio-train-derailment-part-war-white-people\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>, among others, unsurprisingly pounced on the secretary&#8217;s controversial comments.<\/p>\n<p>Cue Sargent&#8217;s finger-wagging in his op-ed, provocatively titled, &#8220;The right fans a repulsive campaign to racialize the Ohio train disaster.&#8221; He argues that &#8220;what this illustrates is how the right uses race-baiting to deceive people into forgetting that Democrats are now the far more committed party when it comes to investing in such left-behind communities.&#8221; He censures those on the right who have &#8220;transformed&#8221; the East Palestine crisis &#8220;into a tale about racial malice, with White Americans as the victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one sense, Sergeant&#8217;s take is hardly surprising. Liberal pundit attacks conservatives for alleged race-baiting \u2014 yawn. But in another sense, Sargent has, presumably unintentionally, walked himself into a rhetorical corner from which it is difficult to escape.<\/p>\n<p> Doesn&#8217;t the Left Racialize Everything? <\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the entire issue of race as it relates to the terrible, ongoing crisis in eastern Ohio, Sargent&#8217;s premise \u2014 that racializing things is bad \u2014 would carry more resonance if the left didn&#8217;t do that with, well, everything. Try an experiment. Name something you&#8217;re interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/02\/us\/world-series-mlb-black-players-youth-league-reaj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professional baseball<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/vehicles\/native-american-appropriation-indian-motorcycle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motorcycles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sewingforeverybody.com\/take-anti-racist-steps-in-the-slow-fashion-and-sewing-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sewing<\/a>; it doesn&#8217;t matter what you choose. Now run a search for that word and &#8220;racist&#8221; or &#8220;racism.&#8221; Undoubtedly, a liberal publication or organization will be discussing the systemic racism that still haunts that hobby of yours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/15\/technology\/artificial-intelligence-google-bias.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that artificial intelligence is racist. In 2020, The Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2020\/03\/fight-to-make-crosswords-more-inclusive\/608212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published a piece titled<\/a> &#8220;The Hidden Bigotry of Crosswords.&#8221; The Washington Post has published articles claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/04\/american-bird-names-colonialism-audubon\/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even bird names<\/a> retain the stench of bigoted patriarchal, colonialist norms and that the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/climate-solutions\/interactive\/2021\/harvest-world-black-family-farm-is-fighting-racism-agriculture-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white farming industry<\/a>&#8221; (did you even know that was a thing?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes the East Palestine example so interesting is that the media bemoan racialization while making everything about race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":1862732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3711,4164,4186,8250,18480,19899,9660,9985,17473],"class_list":["post-1862729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-coverage","tag-disaster","tag-east","tag-medias","tag-palestine","tag-racialized","tag-toxic","tag-train","tag-wreck"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862729","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\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}