Visual Representation

This is a specific video on "Dr" Duke's youtube channel, which you can find in its entirety here, http://www.youtube.com/user/drdduke. I chose this as a visual representation of my topic because it is a good example of how white nationalism operates in new media and of many of the points made in the daniels book. The video distorts facts and events to persuade viewers to see their point of view without acknowledging historical discrepancies and ignoring the reasoning behind some of the details he pointed out. For example duke spent a few minutes discussing how the miss america pageant has become dominated by multiculturalism and how we just accept a blatantly racist policy of allowing a blacks only miss america pageant. He continues to express outrage of numerous racially based groups/organizations like BET and the NAACP and his percieved social unacceptability of white groups. He continues to bring up facts, like blacks are only 18% of the workforce yet 80% of the postal workers, to persuade the viewers of the inequalities of diversity and affirmative action programs. He comes back to these and other facts to prove that whites are being discriminated against while completely ignoring other facts like the miss america pageant had a ban on ALL non whites when it started until the late 60's and that the ffirst african american to win wasn't until 1984. Also miss black america was started in 1968, 40 years after the miss america pageant, and was created due to lack of black contestants in the original pageant.
In daniels book, she talks about an inverted epistimology in which whites are unable to properly understand a world in which they created and the priveledges associated with that and instead place themselves as victims. She says that this is one of the ways in which cyberracism can damage relations because it warps what is considered universal truths about justice and equality and leaves room for white nationalism to infiltrate and furthers ignorance of minority issues. This type of propaganda is especially damaging for this reason.
Overall, this video is a perfect example of the way new media has been used by white nationalists and how these types of propaganda operates to persuade viewers to their way of thinking. In additon the most viewed video on his page has 307 thousand views and many other videos have upwards of 100 thousand views which means that thousands of people have been exposed to this, another phenomenon that would not be possible w/o the internet.