“Why Can’t We Hate Negros?”
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Newspaper journalist Sydney J. Harris
An article recently published in The Washington Post, In 1896, Black intellectuals criticized The Post’s coverage of race, told the story of an 1896 Post editorial, “Color Line in Massachusetts”, about a Black priest who had been refused accommodation at a Boston hotel.
The article described a “dismissive” Washington Post that ridiculed the harm done to the Black priest. The editorial explained,
“… that some White people — whether in Mississippi, South Carolina or even Massachusetts — didn’t want to share hotels or theaters with Black people. … The social recognition of the negro is [as] impossible in one part of the country as another.”
It’s undeniable that in the past, The Washington Post published racist items that demeaned African Americans.
But even with that acknowledged history, I’d bet that the Post never published an article titled “Why Can’t We Hate Negros?”
However, over 100 years after its “Color Line” editorial, the Post published an ethically equivalent article, Why can’t we hate men?, a #MeToo-inspired rant written by the director of women’s studies at Northeastern University, who openly and shamelessly expressed a Nazi-like hatred for men in a nationally read newspaper.
Unbelievably, despite an overwhelmingly negative response from thousands of posted comments, the Post showed a total ignorance about the offensiveness of the article by selecting it as one of The Post’s favorite op-eds of 2018!
While the Post’s 19th century editorial was an example of the media’s historical bigotry and racism against African Americans, this 21st century “hating men” article is undeniable proof of the media’s current-day bigotry and sexism directed against men.
And, as if to prove the point, a mere six months later the Post again showed the depths of it’s gender bias by unwisely publishing Amber Heard’s op-ed, which thoroughly damaged the Post’s journalistic credibility:
“A publication with any semblance of ethics might have asked Depp for comment about the sexual violence claims before running with the allegations — then subsequently spiked the op-ed or sicced its reporters on the case for more fact-finding. But not The Washington Post.
“That paper, which loves to blather in its self-important tone about how “democracy dies in darkness,” didn’t bother to turn the lights in the direction of Heard’s claims. Instead, it gave her a free pass to air her dirty laundry against her ex-husband and consequently enabled her to paint herself both as a victim and a crusader of the Me Too era.” [see footnote]
To anyone who denies — and there will surely be deniers in the millions — that the Post helps propagate a feminist, man-hating worldview, we need only ask, “Would the Post ever publish an editorial “Why can’t we hate Blacks?” Or Jews? Or homosexuals?
Can anyone imagine the Post printing a column titled “Why can’t we hate women?”
Of course not!
What has happened to The Washington Post?
At one time the Post was a premier newspaper that courageously published the Pentagon Papers and later exposed a corrupt president with its legendary Watergate reporting.
How in God’s name could that same newspaper years later publish an article that, by its very title, can only be described as “hate speech”, and that mocks the Post’s own slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness”?
It’s because the Post and nearly every other media organization throughout the world, which are supposed to serve free societies as a bulwark against oppression and tyranny, have been co-opted by a dishonest, decades-long, gender-biased campaign of feminist political, legal, and cultural indoctrination — with a distorted, one-sided view of the two sexes, where women are portrayed as always-innocent victims and men as privileged, women-hating oppressors.
For the past 50 years the world’s media has failed spectacularly in serving the public interest and democratic process. In their blind support of “gender equality”, the Post and other media outlets worldwide have helped to spread a feminist-driven hate movement.
Those who refuse to believe that feminists hate men should take time to read Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life by British author, commentator, and blogger Herbert Purdy:
“The real truth is that feminism is the ideology of hate, whipped up into a false struggle by a small cadre of fellow-travelling, politically motivated, greedy-for-power women who want to overturn the status quo ante so they can create a society in which they and their like can dominate. And it doesn’t take much trawling of the reader-responses to feminist news items on the Internet to see the degree to which their demonised version of patriarchy is believed in the febrile imaginations of young women today, who are clearly caught up in the fervour without displaying any understanding of what it is they are actually saying and believing.”
It is often said that “Those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, and yet far too often we find that people and even respected institutions like The Washington Post still repeat the mistakes from the past.
When will The Washington Post finally stop repeating history and admit that their feminist-inspired worldview is horribly biased against men and boys and common sense?
When enough people tell the Post that it must, finally, recognize these biases, to acknowledge them, and most importantly, to bring back a fair-minded balance to its coverage of gender issues.
Please become one of those people. You can start by forwarding this story to others.
Then please send an email with this story’s link to Sally Buzbee, the Post’s Executive Editor (sally.buzbee@washpost.com), or selected members of Post management, Opinions section leadership, and/or the Post’s reader representative (readers@washpost.com). Be sure keep your messages polite and civil.
Help bring the Washington Post back to sanity and respectability.
For other letters to Post columnists see my Letters to The Washington Post list:
FOOTNOTE:
Normally, I try to use non-partisan references, but even extreme partisan sources like The Federalist sometimes are undeniably correct in their assessments.
By Stephen Bond on November 10, 2022.
Exported from Medium on February 28, 2023.