One could have dismissed it as a joke, but these statements are also emblematic of the deep, systemic racism rampant in journalism out there; it cannot even see the horrific lens of neo-colonialism and Hinduophobia through which it views and judges India.
But let's move beyond rhetoric and look at the @nytimes' actual coverage.
So far, more than two years on, neither the NY Times nor its apologists, like @oneillyatescbc, have responded, much less rebutted this analysis of the NYT's coverage of India.
pragyata.com
So far, more than two years on, neither the NY Times nor its apologists, like @oneillyatescbc, have responded, much less rebutted this analysis of the NYT's coverage of India.
pragyata.com
Or leave aside the NYT's track record of racist and Hinduphobic coverage of India for a moment.
Even its domestic coverage is highly partisan, intolerant of dissenting voices, condemning dissenters with anti-Semitic slurs.
bariweiss.com
Even its domestic coverage is highly partisan, intolerant of dissenting voices, condemning dissenters with anti-Semitic slurs.
bariweiss.com
So unremitting the racism is that the NY Times won't even stand for Indians exercising their right to wear their ethnic dresses.
Everything has to be viewed through the prism of neo-colonialism and racism.
nytimes.com
Everything has to be viewed through the prism of neo-colonialism and racism.
nytimes.com
It's not just India; this neo-colonialism is a defining trait of the NY Times:
This is nothing new. Turns out, the NY Times has been doing this for almost a century - peddling the agendas of colonialists then, Hinduphobes today, racists at all times.
Remember Walter Duranty, NY Times journalist, who whitewashed Stalin's Ukrainian genocide, was awarded a Pulitzer prize, and where it took the NY Times almost six decades to acknowledge it?
Peddling agendas is not an aberration at the NYT; it's their founding principle.
Peddling agendas is not an aberration at the NYT; it's their founding principle.
Or when the NY Times took money from China, under the guise of 'advertising', and never bothered to disclose this conflict of interest.
dailycaller.com
dailycaller.com
Or this, where the NY Times didn't even bother to make a pretence of hiding its racism.
This racism, which the NY Times excels in, comes with a cost - it dehumanizes an entire class of people, it normalizes and justifies violence against them, it perpetuates the most horrific of prejudices against people - in this case, Hindus.
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