Boycotting Hate Speech
For that matter, why aren't the many pundits pontificating on the importance of HRCs leading boycotts against national news outlets that publish the opinions of Mark Steyn and a whole host of Rightwing Pundits? Certainly we have newspapers and magazines guilty not just of publishing steady streams of anti-Muslim bigotry and Rightist propaganda to promote a JudeoChristian Supremacist ideology that insists the West must wage war against Muslim countries, but also of publishing editorials that regularly assault Feminists and others seeking recognition of rights for ALL people in our society, not just New Conservatives predisposed to a white Christian patriarchy.
The mainstream media is the largest and most influential purveyor of intolerance and misinformation and bigotry in this country - by far. And without a doubt, there has been an all out assault on Muslims since 9/11 led by the Right in both politics and the media, the mainstream media, in both this country and south of the border, that has been fueled by hysteria and paranoia and greed such that feeding the basest instincts of the lowest common denominator in our societies (the New Conservative voter here, the Republican voter there) is their bread and butter.
So why haven't the people so keen to protect us all from hate speech been leading boycotts against the MSM? Eh? Well? Why not? Hm?
