1). Start off by making a protected minority (often a Muslim) appear as the likely perp.
2). Then bring a white Christian into the mix in a peripheral role.
3). Wrap up with the protected minority somehow being the helpless victim and the eeeevullll white Christian as the blue-eyed devil.
No wonder my television viewing has been distilled to just ``24'', which has also devolved to being too PC. However, ``The Shield'' on FX did vary from the orthodoxy for a while.
They don’t even try to hide the fact that it’s ‘programming’ and most people still don’t have a clue.