Liberal media voices joined populist racism in ranking Ukrainian lives above Muslim ones

Evidence

The power of whiteness is most luridly on display within the media. Its gatekeepers in Western nations are overwhelmingly white, and naturally, their journalistic lens sees the world through its exclusionary contours. The racism coming from the mouths of populists and pundits regarding Ukraine found unison among liberal and centrist media voices. Charlie D’Agata, of CBS News, cried on air, “[Ukraine] isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European—I have to choose these words carefully—city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1202

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• XREF: Extends the documented double standard in nonwhite refugee coverage the reader tracks through the book alongside Iftikhar.