^If you don't know what's wrong with this headline, you could read my post that clearly explains it.
Buzzfeed's title is actually better than what I've been seeing on many conservative news sites. It's disgusting that instead of focusing on the trauma this man went through or on the fact that these people condemned an ENTIRE RACE beside a politician the media circles in on the fact that these people--like almost half our country--dislike our President-Elect. It's because they want to highlight the depravity of 'Liberals' rather than of these individuals. They are doing the very same thing as these starfishs when they yell "forget white people!"--though far more subtle. It's a mass generalization designed to indiscriminately target a massive and diverse group of people.
Take this headline:
African American man robs McDonalds at gunpoint.
You're so far gone that you might not actually see what's wrong with that, so lets ramp it up a little.
Christian Annoying Orange Supporter crashes car while drunk, kills 7.
These titles add on unnecessary details designed to incite anger towards often-targeted groups. The fact that the latter man is Christian or the former man black are completely irrelevant to the fact that both of them are garbage who committed terrible crimes. Both of these headlines exploit tragedy--instead fusing it with current controversy to develop baiting headlines to fuel arguments and reshares and above it all ad revenue.
This problem isn't even remotely conservative-exclusive. It's a skyrocketing issue that has overwhelmed legitimate news during this last election.
Huffington Post and Breitbart come to mind primarily.
I'm gonna add on to my above post by explaining exactly why this sort of bullstuff generates so much attention. It's because America has a profound obsession with victimhood and as such
everyone wants to the oppressed minority. It's why MTV now has videos of African Americans bitching about innocuous white bystanders and Buzzfeed has vlogs of women screaming about
manspreading on the bus. It's why women scream
HUMONGOUS WHAT? loveUAL ASSAULT! when some dude makes a joke and why Trans-astrobeings on Tumblr get their knickers in a bunch when you refer to them as Ze instead of Xhe. Because people
love to be the victim.
And smug Republicans like to point and laugh, calling liberals attention-seeking crybabies. Just like the crazy left-wing, they're so lost in their echo-chambers that when Breitbart publishes misleading clickbait articles about Annoying Orange supporters getting victimized or BLM burning cities to the ground they don't bat an
eye. It's why white supremacist websites talk about the oppression of the Aryan race or the Jew government suppressing their speech. It's the reason FOX News spreads stories about 'prayer being banned in schools' or Christians being repressed by the 1st Amendment. So there's a whole of hypocrisy in people who call themselves 'anti-SJWs' while angrily reposting headlines like this because they don't realize that deep down they are
exactly the same. Eat stuff.
