Does the Guardian need unconscious bias training?
The woke daily seems to think black people all look the same.
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29th July 2020
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Could the
Guardian be institutionally racist?
An article by Owen Jones about the rapper Wiley’s recent
anti-Semitic outburst on social media somehow ended up featuring a picture of another black rapper – Kano.
The article was literally
about racism. Not only that, but it was about newspapers ‘peddling prejudice’. You couldn’t make it up.
This is not the first time the
Guardian has made this kind of blunder. In fact, it was not even the first time this week.
An article reporting the death of Primal Scream singer Denise Johnson featured a picture of a different black singer. The article also included a video of a song Johnson had no involvement with and got her age and date of birth wrong.
For a newspaper always keen to let us know just how racist we all are, and which has called for us all to be trained to
tackle ‘unconscious bias’, the
Guardian might benefit from looking in the mirror.
As Brendan O’Neill
argued on
spiked this week, the root of so much modern racism is identity politics – something which the
Guardian endlessly promotes.
Perhaps the
Guardian should get its own house in order before accusing others of unconscious bias.
