Ngl this is what every single one of you fucking liberals calling me out about my substandard research practices makes me feel .
—— And you know like to be clear I am saying that as like that’s a Me problem. I need to figure out how the fuck to be able to accept criticism or none of this is gonna get to a point where it’s worth Jack.
Whenever I see a story that seems far fetched, I try to think about it more broadly.
Was it a NYT reporter who hadn’t heard of Jim Crow laws? Maybe, could’ve been a nobody intern who grew up in the South. Besides that, I fully believe this conversation has occurred with an ignorant person, if not a NYT reporter.
But there is a very specific agenda here. So say to people who already think that the NYT is bad, that the NYT employs people without even the slightest understanding of history. I highly doubt this happened.
Maybe your trust of this institution is severely miss placed.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/28/ny-times-gets-230-wrong-again-misrepresenting-history-law-and-the-first-amendment/
When I went looking for this there’s MANY more.
…So, you think her story is too unbelievable, that the NYT would never do such a thing, and that she made it up to push a specific agenda?
Hm…
Yes, I too am sure of every idea I have
Don’t downvote people for being skeptical on the internet folks, we want to encourage it.
Am I doing that? Seems to me like that’s getting done to me.
I would expect somebody who grew up in the South to be more likely to have heard about Jim Crow than somebody who grew up in some supermajority-white place like the mountain west or whatever.
Hey that’s where I’m from. But even I remember touching on Jim Crow laws in grade school, and coming back to it in more depth in highschool. So I don’t mean to be the “nothing’s real on the Internet” guy, but I do find it hard to believe that the term “Jim Crow” didn’t even ring a bell for the reporter. But idk, there’s lots of stupid people in high places, so I won’t doubt that it happened either.
I grew up partially in the absolute middle of nowhere texas. We still learned about jim crow there.
Oklahoma here, we definitely learned about it too.
But take like the Tulsa Race Massacre. I grew up hearing it called the Tulsa Race Riots, but I don’t recall ever being taught about it in school, I heard about it from my parents. I still didn’t really know much about it until several years ago. I literally grew up in Tulsa lol.
Edit: not to say I believe the story. But I think it’s possible. I heard about the Massacre from my stepmom, who did a paper on it in college (mid 80s), and apparently had trouble finding a lot of different source material at the library.
That doesn’t mean it’s not true. From my school days, I remember heated shouting matches with other students who insisted that our teacher definitely never ever taught us “specific thing X” which they definitely did the week before, while I knew for a fact that the person I was arguing with had sat one row behind me in that very class.