President Donald Trump is a racist. But news organizations, whose nominal business is putting true things on the page, don’t like calling racist things racist. A racist slur becomes a “racially tinged” or “racially charged” remark, as if race itself were anything but the product of racism. One would think Trump is too oafish and explicit for the old damping genteelism of the media. With a few notable exceptions — CNN’s newscasts in particular, where Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper were refreshingly explicit — the media fell back on its traditional circumlocutions.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2018 21:10 UTC