And you are lynching Negroes was one of the Language and literature good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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I disagree with some of the suggestions there -- it might be nice if this article could be validly related to the personal lived experiences of United States Black people in some way, but it's not essential, since (as I said previously, see talk page archive 6): "There was a duel of propaganda rhetorics and propagandists, and in fact neither side cared all that much about the fate of actual Black people (who were mostly rather distant, socially and/or geographically from where the propagandizing was going on). The whole thing was mostly not even really about Blacks, but about propaganda memes and tropes that were conveniently at hand for lazy propagandists." AnonMoos (talk) 18:05, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Russian and particularly Chinese media, politicians and diplomats seem to increasingly try to deflect criticism of their human rights abuse with whataboutism about BLM, George Floyd, and so on. Some source review:
Per reasons cited in the Good Article delisting, this article would be improved by adding background and context to racial affairs in the U.S., and specifically to the actual practice of lynching. I would probably do this as an introductory subsection under History, or possibly as a new introductory section, which draws upon Lynching in the United States and specifically refers readers to that article as "Main". The discussion here should be brief, as it isn't the primary subject of this article. Another user recently tried to add something like this under a new subsection titled "Racism in American History". Unfortunately, that contribution has a long list of problems including clear NPOV issues. I spent a couple hours trying to see if there was something salvageable. However, several specific factual claims seem to contradict the Lynching in the United States article, and as all of the citations are in Persian, I can't validate these claims or evaluate reliability of the sources. Removing the problematic parts would leave almost nothing, so I'm going to remove it and hopefully something better can be worked into the article. I do, however, want to be clear that I am sympathetic to the user's intent. There just isn't much to work with to improve the contribution. CAVincent (talk) 06:35, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@CAVincent I concur that such a section should not be referenced using Iranian sources (particularly as Iran is a state rife with anti-American unreliable propaganda). At the same time, yes, a brief historical context about the American lynchings would be useful. I propose adding the brief section to the history, with {{main}} pointing to the Lynching in the United States article, and with a brief summary, perhaps limited to just the opening sentence from the lead: "Lynching in the United States was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the pre-Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. ". While historical context and linking to that article in prominent way is a good idea, we have to be careful to avoid having this article hijacked by anti-American agents, keeping in mind WP:UNDUE and the existence of Russian web brigades, particularly active in the recent days. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here10:15, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As explained above and in the archives, the main topic of this article is propagandizing that was somewhat remote from actual Black people, so such explanations would be background. "Racism in American History" is an open-ended topic which could fill a 40-volume encyclopedia, so it would be more desirable to have a more specific starting point, something like "Lynching in the 20th-century United States" (or even more specific than that, if possible)... AnonMoos (talk) 13:38, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The final sentence of the lede (its own paragraph) states "Supposedly, use of phrases like these, exemplifying the tu quoque logical fallacy, was an attempt to deflect criticism of the Soviet Union by referring to racial discrimination and lynching in the United States." Everything contained in this sentence has already been stated in the lede. Furthermore it begins with "Supposedly", which is not in accordance with the style manuals that WP recommends, as well as it lacking an article following "Supposedly". Unless anyone would care to defend the sentence's retention, I will delete it. Bricology (talk) 07:36, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's interesting, but I'm not sure it has much to do with the Soviet propaganda rhetoric which is the main focus of this article. AnonMoos (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Don't know about other countries but in Bulgaria we use this line in a different sense. It comes from a joke where a Russian guy is presenting the newest Soviet car and an American ask him questions about its performance, which the Russian ignores. At the end the Russian gets annoyed and ask him "And why are you beating up the Negroes?". The joke ridicules the shortcomings and inefficiencies of the communist system and its response to criticism by whataboutism. It is still used today to ridicule whataboutism or to expose somebody who lacks real arguments. 91.139.166.157 (talk) 14:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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