When I refer to it, I'm talking about the underlying stuff that enables the media to create a narrative

Does that help clear things up?

The media can't blow something out of proportion if it doesn't exist.

It exists, but not the way we're told it does

I get what you’re saying gohan, but why the bleach?

I get your point.

But here's the thing: it exist MAINLY because the media pushed it.

But something had to exist before, no?

Started* it would be more accurate.

If nothing exists, there's nothing to create a narrative out of

Nothing existed. They created the narrative > they blew the narrative.

What I am against is that it comes natural.

Someone HAS to teach it.

Except that in this instance, smollett claims bleach was poured on him. It was intentional to make the attack seem racially motivated...from the get-go.

Yeah

Maybe I'm missing something, but to me, bleach doesn't scream racial motivation

It's to "whiten" him up.

Ohhh

And he said that he "kept the noose around his neck when the police came". A total movie player.

I always thought about it from a pain perspective

Noose, Bleach...screams mainstream reacism.

racism*

When you check the video, go to the part where he shows the tweets.

Will do

Can I offer a slight bit of proof as to why underlying racial tension exists?

Do you know what the most racist country in the world is?

(Hint: it isn't the US)

It's India

In India, there exist communities of people who have never seen a person who isn't brown.

When a white person goes to those communities, do you know how they react? The children hide behind their parents, and the parents move towards their living spaces.

Whereas when I visited those communities, there was no such reaction

That’s not racial tension. That’s a natural feat of something unknown

It's a basal sense of "us vs. them," a herd mentality, if you will

A fear of something that looks exactly as you do, minus skin color?

That's exactly what racial tension is

Because there's no other differentiating factor between the two

That's what I've been trying to say, but sadly, my English skills were being used up by this paper I'm working on

That’s natural. But not really racial tension.

If we were being honest, that's what racial tension actually is. And that's exactly what the media has managed to spin up into such a big thing.

It took a base instinct, a natural wariness, and turned it into a big thing

Racism definition

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.