Social Media And Anti-Racism Analysis

When analyzing racist situations or scenarios, an anti-racist approach can be applied by critically breaking down the problems involved within the contexts and providing a solution towards it. When diagnosing the two central issues with racism in media, over-popularization and regulation, one can provide many solutions to the numerous problems displayed. Firstly, the problems with the ‘over-popularized’ portion is that media is too accessible and rarely has age limits. The World Wide Web has made it extremely effortless to obtain access to almost any kind of information, including the news, and targets all types of consumers from old to young. This is a major problem as literally anyone, at any age, can go online and find millions of articles

The cite makes this a “news article”, which is then read by a consumer who blindly follows it and forms an opinion off of it, which they then reproduce back to society in the form of social media by tweeting or updating their status about it; thus over-popularizing what is happening in the media and feeding the cycle. This is an epidemic in society as over-popularizing the wrong information, or racism in the media, can produce the normalization of it and further promotes the one’s regulating it agendas; which brings forth the problems with the ‘regulated’ portion of this situation. Evidently, in the last paragraph it was determined that the bourgeoisie controls the media, which allows them to publicize whatever opinions they have and turn them into the ‘news’. As seen with the Trump examples, it encourages and promotes others to follow him and his beliefs because he has the authority to voice

One of the reasons why Trump has so many people supporting his Obama wiretapping case is because people do not do factual checks on whether or not his accusations is true or not. “They were not backed up by any evidence, and former US intelligence chief James Clapper denied that any wiretap had been ordered” (News, BBC). Trump has roughly twenty-seven million followers on twitter, and his first tweet, on march 4th, about the accusation on Obama received over 51,00 retweets, and 146,000 favourites; meaning not only did 27 million see this as new “news” but 146,000 individuals “liked” the tweet which implies that they agree with him (Trump, Twitter). Evidently, this is a problem as individuals are not doing background fact checks, but are merely agreeing to whatever Trump says. This is where education needs to provide a ‘bird’s eye view’ and teach individuals to look at everything from an overall perspective and not just based on what they see or read. Furthermore, another solution in conjugation with education, would be teaching others not to believe everything someone with authority says is true simply because they have power. An example such as Trump is more than enough evidence to prove that individuals believe whatever an authority figure states or