Making the Racism Vanish: How the Right Manipulates Facts
By: James Peron
Tags: Propaganda, Racism, New York Post, Daily Mail, Alt Right

I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the story. Another whiny white fratboy having a meltdown and crying to right-wing media sources how his “patriotic” defense of police caused a new professor to chastise him. The poor baby was upset by it.

I saw the article in the hate sheet, the Daily Mail, a paper for illiterates in England that is most famous for having supported Hitler and Mussolini through its editorials in the 1930s. Since then it has been race-baiting Meghan Markle and coming up with new inventive spellings for words along with incoherent sentences—I presume their editors are still in grade school.

The other right-wing rag, the New York Post, also picked up the same weepy story about the poor boy who is jockeying to be the next Charlie Kirk or Ben Shapiro. The child with the big mouth was shown in the Daily Mail all decked on in his Trump paraphanalia waving the racist white supremacy gesture in the air. Here is the original photo the Daily Mail ran.

You can clearly see that the child with the big mouth is in his Trump gear and waving the white power gesture in the air. Now that is a cropped photo but here is the original. And you can see the cretin with the boy waving the same gesture, so it was just an incidental gesture made without thinking, they choreographed it intentionally.

It’s two asses waving “white power” while in their worship gear for America’s first truly authoritarian president. While the boy with the big mouth was being praised by the alt-Right I went back to find the photo of him showing his true colors and suddenly couldn’t find it. It vanished and was replaced with one of him dressed in suit ready by bural, with slicked back hair.

The New York Post had titled the original photo with the child’s name “…-facebook-02.jpg” and the Daily Mail had originally cited the boy’s Facebook page as the source for this white power gesture photo. Apparently neither paper thought this a problem when they first published the photo.

But painting someone waving a racist gesture as a victim doesn’t work very well. Out of the blue both papers deleted the photo with the gesture and put the suit photo in its place. I did a reverse image search on the racist photo and found the records showing both newspapers had originally published it. (See below). As far as I see things this inconsequential child is not the story here, one reason I don’t use his name, he is just a puppet used by the newspaper for their purposes. The real story is how the newspapers manipulated their readers and then edited their original reporting to further this goal.

I went to the child’s Facebook page and there was no such photo there either. If the Post and Mail had been honest in attributing the child’s page, it had been wiped there as well. I went back to the Dail Mail and the New York Post and both of the newspaper removed the Trump/gesture photo but neither, as far as I could see, told readers they replaced this questionable photo. This selective editing was hidden from the public and unacknowledged.

Both papers are sleazy, scandal sheets with a far right bent to them. Both tried to paint this child as a victim but having their “victim” waving a white power gesture in their story undermines their goal. They removed the tell-tale photo and replaced it and none of them admitted doctoring the facts to improve the boy’s image. What they did is not journalism, it’s propaganda.