I wonder how often those who staged sit Ins and marches or bothered to even speak out publicly about discrimination or police harassment were called 'divisive ' and trouble makers

hurray for the modern trouble makers referred to more commonly as 'race baiters'

from the book Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation

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Bullies such as O'Reilly often try to silence those who criticize their clumsy words on race by accusing the critics themselves of racism.



This is, in part, how O'Reilly has become the most-watched host on cable TV news; a towering figure who often scores high in viewer polls listing America's most influential journalists, despite the fact that he isn't a journalist and twists facts like taffy to serve his purposes.

And anyone who opposed his efforts was likely to be slapped with a term whose pejorative power shuts down all debate: race baiter.






Flash forward a few years, and you see that tactic spread across an entire chunk of major media outlets.

Once upon a time, media outlets earned revenue by gathering the biggest crowds, selling advertisers access to them. But in today's fragmented media environment, many of the fastest-growing platforms pursue the biggest pieces of that audience - I call it the Tyranny of the Broad Niche - and they have found leveraging prejudice and stereotypes effective in drawing audience.

My book, Race-Baiter, offers a handy road map to decoding these tactics and defusing them. The topics include: Fox News' use of scary black people to motivate viewers; the history of how corporations turned angry white men on radio into a moneymaking formula; the uneasy questions raised by activist Al Sharpton's dual role as MSNBC anchor and advocate for the family of slain teen Trayvon Martin; the way a lack of poverty coverage has allowed politicians to demonize the poor for under-informed audiences.

In a tribute to how far we have already come on these discussions, it is generally accepted that mainstream society rejects outright racism and prejudice. Which means the best way to defeat such techniques in modern media is simply to expose them; drag implicit messages meant to work on the edges of your mind into the light, as explicit themes the audience must consciously accept or reject.

Of course, by doing that, you risk being accused of bringing up stereotypes and prejudice unfairly.

You risk being called a race baiter.

But sometimes, having that title hung on you by the right people means mostly one thing: You're on the right track.

O'Reilly is the most huge watched host on cable news because he actually makes sense. NOT all the time. But, he uses common sense. I'm curious, what are your thoughts about Dr. Ben Carson? Just a random question.

hmm,, my thoughts are that he is obviously educated enough to have become a doctor.


I believe that experience perhaps fuels what I believe are some classist opinions and beliefs about poverty in America


I believe that experience also causes him to be mostly absent from discussion on racial inequalities or injustices, he has so much as stated that as a neurosurgeon he is pretty much one of those colorblind people who just feel people are people and the system will handle the rest,,



I believe he strongly incorporates his Christian values into his politics.

I believe he has a skewed view of the difference between 'helping' people and making people unable to help themselves,,,

Bill O'Reilly is not a bully.

Whoever wrote that book "Race Baiter" is wrong.

By the way, if you are going to quote a party, then please name the party.

Those experiences such as growing up in Southwest Detroit in a single mother household while attending an overwhelmingly minority public school?


If only he was a Democrat.. haha

I opened up with the name of the book, its researchable,,,,

you might be surprised,,,,alot of 'educated' people out there are idiots to the real life people face,, and especially when their circumstances can so much easily be used to boost their own ego about how 'different' , or superior they are to all those others,,,

I had a stepdad who grew up dirt poor but ended up 'succesful' and had that same attitude,,,, that nothing is really wrong with the system that its all just some inerrant personal and cultural lacking,,,,,

Why didn't you simply identify the author?

So, Ben Carson is an idiot...and Al Sharpton isn't?....lol...wow

I identified the work that I took it from. Do we mention the authors of the different bible books when quoting them?

I gave what I thought was pertinent information and what was easily researchable. A quick google search lists Eric Daggens as the author of the book.

lets not take things out of context. What was actually stated is that some people are idiots TO THE REAL LIFE PEOPLE FACE

and yes, I believe Carson fits the description because I am not sure how close he gets to MODERN everyday people and people who are not 'professionals' or upper class.

I believe Sharpton has much more direct and constant contact and interaction with such people.

Again...wow.

Do you think it's possible that when he got out of the inner city culture his eyes opened up to the reality that the excuses pervasive in those circles were BS?

Because according to you he fit the profile of someone that could never succeed because of his skin color and institutionalized racism.

And you know what. .. if he listened to people like you he very well might have been Michael Brown...

I have never stated that anyone could 'never' succeed

the issue is not whether people can overcome obstacles, the issue is the disparity of those obstacles

its comparative to an escaped slave becoming successful and then totally minimalizing the issues faced by slaves by holding themselves up as some exemplary proof of it all just being a matter of everyone elses inferiority at escaping,,,