Posted on 07/21/2021 3:37:15 PM PDT by FalloutShelterGirl
As I’m sure most people would assume, we get plenty of criticism at WTOP.
Sometimes it’s constructive: We need to use better grammar; we need to add more details to our stories; or we made a mistake.
Sometimes it’s about opinion: We are too left because we talk to liberals; or we are too right because we talk to conservatives.
And that’s all OK. We’re not perfect. We strive to be accurate all the time. We aim to be unbiased. At WTOP, we are glad to get the feedback. It makes us better — negative, positive and in-between.
Then there is the communication that really bothers me. The kind that is racist. The kind that gets my back up. Makes me angry. The kind that can’t go unaddressed.
Take a look at this letter we received recently:
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
The WTOP staff is livid over this hater! How dare he! It would be funny if it wasn't scary.
She’s upset someone she hates was promoted
The letter would have been good if the writer had not said “just an excuse that blacks for not improving themselves”.
That is just not true of all black people, so it is offensive, IMO.
Perhaps this guy has not seen all of the black people coming out against CRT.
Poorly thought out and worded. He needs an aide or confidant to read over his notes because it is racist and unprofessional. He could convey the same thoughts without going over the line.
What a sanctimonious load of sh*t. There was nothing racist about that letter. We are all sick of hearing about that racist crap and 99% of us are not racists (though they are trying their best to turn us into racists). I am in the WTOP listening area and they have given me yet another reason not to to tune in.
J.J. is (b)lack. And I’m white. Shouldn’t matter, right? But obviously it does to the person who wrote this letter. My goal with my response to this is to expose this kind of racial intolerance and ignorance in the hopes of putting more and more of it behind us for good. …Garbage. J.J. Green’s skin color does not matter to the writer of the letter (presuming it is genuine), but his rhetoric.
Wow, the GM is trying for a higher level of Wokeness and virtue signaling. There is nothing racist about the letter other than the writer dared to challenge the current CRT, everybody is defined by their race approved government message.
If that’s the worst letter they’ve ever gotten I’d be very surprised. I’ve seen real life hate mail, just sent to ordinary people I actually know, not you know, the MEDIA or a RADIO STATION, and it’s been A LOT worse than this.
That nails it.
It’s correct. America’s first and foremost victim group uses accusations of racism as an excuse for their self-inflicted failures. That is the truest thing anyone ever said, even if Sheldon Cooper would say that a thing can’t be truest-just true.
They blame Whitey for their failures, and they hate Whitey.
Racism isn’t bothersome. What is bothersome is when people write articles and mention some acronym like WTOP and expect that everyone in the world knows what it is.
I read the Letter and didn’t see the Racist part they mentioned.
Is there a second Page of the Letter that they neglected to Post Online?
Why doesn’t it strike everyone as “odd” that the statement, ‘They are not killing, looting, burning,’ is interpreted as racist, when it doesn’t single out a race.
Why would someone assume a is singled out by the phrase ‘...killing, looting, burning...’?
Trivia buffs?
“no one believes in systemic racism”
Then why is the term repeated so often?
I believe the thinking goes like this: “I have noticed that your ideas differ from my ideas. Why you so racist?”
Because you call a man a donkey 99 times and the 100th he will bray.
We are on the ninety sixth time or so.
What happens after that will not be pleasant.
Sometimes it’s about opinion: We are too left because we talk to liberals; or we are too right because we talk to conservatives.
What's with all the semicolons? Did the punctuation store have a Christmas in July sale?
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