A hateful chant broke out among a crowd at a college sports event. But this incident was unlike the BYU-Duke volleyball incident earlier this month for two key reasons.
The first is that this one actually did happen. The second is that the media didn’t care.
With the Oregon Ducks dominating Brigham Young University in their ranked football clash, a section of Oregon fans began chanting, “F*** the Mormons.” Whereas there was not a single person who could substantiate the story that there were racial slurs directed at Duke University’s Rachel Richardson, the chants from Oregon fans were caught on video.
Presented with a clear-cut case of casual religious bigotry, the establishment media couldn’t care less. The Washington Post wrote up one piece on it, compared to the three it gave to Duke’s racial slur hoax. The New York Times also wrote three pieces on the slur hoax, but it hadn’t even covered the Oregon chants three days after the game. There were no hosts on ESPN or CNN or MSNBC raising outrage on behalf of the Mormons as they had raised outrage against BYU’s crowd for a slur that was never said.
It isn’t hard to see why. Our self-appointed monitors of bigotry in the media associate Mormonism with white people, and so they don’t care about obscene chants directed at them. They can’t weave a narrative of systemic, institutional, omnipresent racism by white people toward racial minorities from this kind of bigotry. So it must be ignored in favor of fabricated slurs, fake nooses, and mythical MAGA-hat-wearing, Empire-watching racists walking the streets of Chicago at 2 a.m.
Our brave warriors of “inclusion” and “tolerance” in the media don’t care about either of those things. They care about furthering their narrative that America is built on white supremacy, and they will pursue that, one fake slur or shamed Mormon at a time.
