04-11-2017, 06:20 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
These are photos that Reuters posted this week of Christians around the world celebrating Holy Week. You're going to see some pretty unusual and surprising and maybe even frightening looking stuff in there, and probably nothing like you experienced at First United Methodist Church.
Exactly. You have a comparison, something you have seen yourself. But if you have no Jews in your community (like most of rural America), then what? Nothing in the Reuters caption says the pictured event is uncommon amongst practitioners of Judaism.
Why are practitioners of the Moslem faith so feared in the US? Maybe because there are so few moslem communities for reference, and the only things that make the news feeds are attacks by jihadists?
It's not the responsibility of international photojournalists at Reuters to reduce willful ignorance and bigotry among Americans.
Then you would agree that Breitbart et al have no responsibility to portrait the truth either, correct? That's where your "helpless puppets" learn their "facts about other cultures."
Reuters is under no obligation to produce a Dick and Jane slide show about world religions for people you and Steve imagine to be helpless rubes, and how horribly insulting it would be if they did.
I don't expect a slide show. A fair picture caption, yes.
I'm an educated person with an appreciation of other cultures and religions, and so are you, as are most of the participants in this forum. But quite a few of my neighbors are not so appreciative. Why? Because of web sites they believe are telling the truth (but in reality spew latent distrust of others). And without any positive reference to others in the community who are different (Muslims, Jews, etc.) the neighbors have no reason to think otherwise.
Reuters is not helping. Maybe they're not as bad as Breitbart et al, but they're surely not helping.