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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CollectivismMustDie on August 15, 2014, 01:38:49 AM
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cui bono (11,814 posts) Thu Aug 14, 2014, 11:40 PM
If They Gunned Me Down - Which Picture of You Would the Media Choose to Run?
Twitter Users Criticize Media Portrayals of Minority Deaths
This is a powerful campaign to show how the media picks certain pics to depict people in the media, purposely showing minorities in less professional or scholarly light. So people are posting two pics of themselves that show different sides and asking which pic would the media choose if they made the news.
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025388655
I guess they forgot about media lightening then using this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/TrayvonMartinHooded.jpg)
And using this:
(http://cdn.necolebitchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Trayvon-Martin.jpg)
And ignoring the ones that look like this:
(http://riehlworldview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/trayvon-martin.jpg)
They're always happy to rewrite history. :argh:
CMD
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My premise is why would you put pics out there that "if you died" you would be ashamed of?
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A persons natural look is not flashing gang signs or flipping the bird.
You take a picture of yourself like that then it is a conscious decision to make the statement that it is.
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A persons natural look is not flashing gang signs or flipping the bird.
You take a picture of yourself like that then it is a conscious decision to make the statement that it is.
...and that picture is a truer representation of the person.