No, they judged him by his skin color.
No, they judged him by his skin color.They cannot admit they judged a boy by his hat.
Neither is true. If the boy had been black and wearing a MAGA hat, he would have been as much a target, and more so. Ditto if it had been a woman.So it is more true that they judged him by his hat. OTOH the real misjudgment, the real prejudice, lies in the judgment they made prior to that. Their prejudice is that they are the ones to decide - for all of us - the meaning of the hat.
The basis of that prejudice is their membership in a mutual admiration society. The club of objective journalists.
The ancient greek philosophers figured out that claiming to be wise was a slippery way of evading facts and logic. It was the propaganda of the sophists against whom the philosophers contended.
Journalists are modern-day sophists, but they evade the odor of sophistry of claiming wisdom by claiming “objectivity” instead. Pretty much the same difference. And, if you pay attention you will notice that they don’t claim objectivity for themselves personally - they claim objectivity for the group first, and then for whoever else among them has been attacked for being ideological.
- sophist
- 1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
- philosopher
- O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."
"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]
“Wisdom” and “objectivity” are aspirations, not states of being. It is arrogant to claim otherwise about yourself. Or to join a mutual admiration society which you know will claim either for you.