From driftglass:
I would like to imagine that a heated, principles debate over the importance of precision and accuracy in journalism took place in the newsroom of my local, dying newspaper when they decided to run with this headline:
Racially charged video from Auburn emerges on social media
Because the video in question is not “racially charged” or “racially tinged” or “controversial” or any of the other soft-language euphemisms that America’s most timorous profession seems to roll out every day in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of their fence-straddling Centrist subscribers and/or to avoid pissing off their racist Republican subscribers.
Because that’s what this video is.
Racist.
Period. This is an observable fact —