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> Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”

And he said that for no reason at all? He didn't cite a recent survey [0] where nearly half of Black people did not agree with the statement "It's okay to be white" [1,2]?

He mustn't have, because if he had, then reporting only the most inflammatory conclusion, and omitting his justification, isn't journalism, but character assassination. And Deadline is highly rated by Media Bias [3] and considered generally reliable by Wikipedia [4], so they would surely not lie by omission and exclude relevant, easily obtainable and verifiable information.

[0] Timestamp in the video where he cites that survey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s&t=802s

[1] BLACK AMERICANS ONLY: "It's okay to be white." 53% agree, 26% disagree, 21% not sure - https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/162846019293223731...

[2] By race, 81% of Whites, 53% of Blacks and 58% of other races at least somewhat agreed it’s alright to be white. - https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/poll-72-us-adul...

[3] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/deadline-hollywood/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups? Maybe people meant to disagree with the usage and subtext of this expression rather than the literal meaning? That's the problem with polls. People could be responding to a completely different question.

In any case, it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll. To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known, take the results of one poll and spread extremely provocative messages is just incredible. Most people can draw only one conclusion out of this.

> it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll.

That may be so, but an honest journalist would report both justification and conclusion, not just the latter, and let their readers decide.

> To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known

If their experiences are negative, disregarding them is celebrated:

The ideal white response to non-white predation came from the Tibbetts family. Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2018. [..] [Her father] emphasized that his daughter would find anyone using her death to criticize illegal immigration as “profoundly racist.” The family was lionized by the press. - https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-...

> take the results of one poll

You think he should base his views on more comprehensive violent crime statistics instead?

Polling for "It's okay to be white." surely does not feel neutral to me.

And Rasmussen is known for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_...

  > Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups?

If people who say "it's okay to be white" are labeled extremists, then isn't the problem the people doing the labeling? Should anybody who thinks that is an extremist position be allowed to label anybody or anything?

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