Race censorship

Race censorship is a political term for the mainstream media's editorial policy to not report the racial background of the people mentioned or featured in news stories, especially of criminal suspects or convicts. Usually, it is not formal censorship, but rather a form of self censorship. Race censorship is a major component of political correctness, a left-wing ideology which is claimed by its critics to have originated from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, otherwise referred to as Cultural Marxism.

Purpose

As late as the 1950s, the race of a story subject could be freely mentioned in news stories, though this typically only happened if the subject was non-white.

After the 1960s, primarily as a result of the social movements that arose during that decade, such mentions stopped because of criticism from mostly left-wing activists. In later years, the media came to internalize the concept that racial information was either "irrelevant" or inappropriate to mention. The censorship may also have an idealistic purpose. The hope is that, by not mentioning racial differences, they may cause them to become unimportant. Another motive is said to be white guilt, which is often claimed to primarily be caused by one-sided depictions of historical events such as the Holocaust, European colonialism, and the transatlantic slave trade. This extends to self-imposed restrictions on reporting negative news regarding Third World belief systems like Islamism, though, in this case, the racial component may decrease if more whites choose to convert.

In practice

A poster by the Scottish British National Party that accused the British government of double standards regarding race and crime.

Allegedly, race censorship is mainly used to cover up incidents of crime and violence committed by mostly Non-Asian ethnic minorities, often in low-income and disadvantaged areas. However, it is also said to cover up interracial crime against whites, like Black on White violence.

In news stories of minor civil disturbances involving flash mobs or mob violence, including knockout game or "polar bear attacks", the term "youths" is often used.

The mainstream media may also limit reporting on ongoing events with racial aspects, like the UK acid attacks of 2017. Over 400 such attacks were carried out in England and Wales in the six months up to April 2017, but media coverage was muted.

However, antisemitic hate crimes committed by non-Asian minorities are often major stories in the mainstream media.

Media examples

• One publisher notable for practicing race censorship is the MailOnline, a popular news website associated with the British Daily Mail newspaper. The comments sections of any news stories about non-white criminals are proactively censored by MailOnline moderators. Any comments that mention a perpetrator's race in any way, or that oppose further immigration of members of their ethnic group, are blocked and not allowed to appear in their comments sections. However, comments written from an anti-white perspective are usually allowed.
• Also notable for practicing race censorship is the highly influential online encyclopedia Wikipedia, operated by the self-described "anti-racist" Wikimedia Foundation, which, while often argued by many to have been a left-wing organization from its early years, now prevents pro-white editors from contributing towards the site in order to correct the perceived biases on race-based articles.

Individual examples

• On December 25, 1991, Dana Ireland, a 23-year-old white American woman who was vacationing in Hawaii, was attacked by a group of Polynesian Hawaiians and beaten and tortured to death. She died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but her death was left generally unreported, which drew scathing condemnation from several prominent white nationalists, including William Luther Pierce, the now-deceased founder of the National Alliance organization.

• In June 2017, Judge Thomas Borreson of Idaho's 5th Judicial District issued a gag order blocking discussion of the juvenile court sentence received by three Muslim refugee boys from Sudan and Iraq, who were convicted of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old Idaho girl. Twin Falls County prosecutor Grant Loebs then allegedly went on a "propaganda campaign" in favor of refugee resettlement. Earlier, U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy J. Olson had threatened to prosecute Idaho residents who released "inflammatory information" about the perpetrators. This was interpreted as statements that revealed the abusers' ethnicities or races. "Anti-Sharia" activist Pamela Geller condemned the restrictions as a "Travesty of Justice as Idaho Muslim Migrant Rapists Go Unpunished", allegedly to support the state's growing refugee community in a process of population replacement.

• To a limited extent, the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were reported and analyzed in mainstream media stories, though the worst details of the torture the victims endured before their deaths was generally left undescribed, and the fact that all the perpetrators were black and the victims white was not emphasized either. Comments sections were often disabled, which was described as another form of race censorship. Subsequently, popular websites like Snopes.com were accused of deliberately downplaying or denying the racial aspects of the killings, in an alleged case of liberal media bias. Race censorship in this case was also defended as necessary to prevent racial relations from worsening. Nevertheless it has been cited by Third Position, alt-right and far-right critics as evidence of implicit media bias in support of white genocide. These critics also claim the problem is more the absence of a white reaction to these attacks, rather than the black violence itself.

• On January 10, 2018, 16-year-old white teenager Valaree Megan Schwab was killed with a steak knife by 16-year-old black teenager Z'Inah Brown outside a Dunkin Donuts shop in New Rochelle, New York. Z'Inah Brown was assisted during the attack by a group of male and female black teenagers, though none of them are thought to have inflicted serious injuries. Schwab had been bullied by Brown and other black teenagers in her high school, which was reportedly attended by many urban teens from outside the area. Mainstream media organs declined to mention the races of the attackers, in an alleged case of race censorship, though these details were discussed on alternative media. Most mainstream sites also moderated their comments sections, or suspended commenting for this story.

• On December 11, 2019, Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old white female student at Barnard College who originally hailed from Charlottesville, Virginia, was reportedly attacked by three black youths and then stabbed multiple times, resulting in her death. One of the suspects, a thirteen-year-old black male, was arrested and charged with felony murder. Two fourteen-year-old black youths were also apprehended and released into the custody of their attorneys without being charged. The ongoing investigation was hampered by political considerations, including race censorship. The mainstream media and other politically correct organizations were accused of double standards regarding limited reporting of the murder of Majors and the ethnicity of her murderers, when compared to their extensive coverage relating to the death of George Floyd several months later, including in regards to the ethnicity of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who was convicted of killing Floyd.

• On November 21, 2021, Darrell Brooks, a 39-year-old political extremist and militant black supremacist, killed six people and injured sixty-two others by hitting participants and observers at the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. While his mixed-race ethnicity was mentioned, as well as the ethnicity of his mostly white victims, the case was largely drawn under the carpet, with the mainstream media choosing instead to focus on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.

Other uses

"Racial censorship" was also the title of a 2003 column by libertarian black professor Walter E. Williams condemning part of the criticism of Rush Limbaugh for his suggestion that black quarterback Donovan McNabb was mostly allowed to play for racial reasons. At the time of his death in 2020, William's Wikipedia article (and almost all similar articles) was itself an alleged example of racial censorship, not mentioning his race until far in the text.

See also

• 2012 Israeli race riots - a case of anti-black racism in Israel that was largely unreported in the mainstream media.
• Anti-White Watch - a website that was created in 2021 to counter race censorship.
• Race and crime
• Racism in Zimbabwe - Attacks on the declining white minority in what was Rhodesia have been consistent since the beginning of black majority rule in 1980, though most of these attacks have been largely unreported in the mainstream media.
• South African farm attacks - Since the abolition of the controversial apartheid system and the beginning of black majority rule in 1994, ongoing attacks on Afrikaner farmers and other white people in South Africa have been subject to heavy race censorship.