"A Good Samaritan"--The Mormon Channel (6 min.)
The video shown above was published on November 16, 2017. It purports to be a modern rendition of "The Good Samaritan" parable, but instead appears to be claiming that whites are uncaring or uncharitable while Muslims and/or blacks are the opposite. Specifically, "a certain man" going down to Jericho is replaced by a workman leaving his apartment who is accosted and beat by two white men; he later crawls to a busy sidewalk where his pleas for help are ignored by not just a white businessman and white female volunteer (apparently standing in for the priest and Levite in the original), but by a whole crowd of white people. Just then, the black woman (presumably Muslim because of her dress) intercedes and helps the injured man to an emergency clinic.
Of course, in the original parable, the priest and the Levite could be interpreted as not helping the injured man because they were hypocrites; but it is possible that it was because they did not want to ritually defile themselves (although there are arguments that even this was not an excuse, because they were leaving Jerusalem, presumably having concluded any necessary rituals, not heading toward it). Thus, they arguably were following the letter of the Law, but not the spirit of the Law--a theme that Christ went back to time and time again. This video shallowly ignores all of that. In fact, I would suggest that the purpose of the video was not to teach us to live our religion, but to shame us into accepting Muslim migrants.
In any event, I left a comment noting that I thought the video was unrealistic (why wouldn't anyone call emergency services?) and racist. Interestingly, after several days, my comments are visible to me only when I go to YouTube while using my account, but are not visible when I go and check publicly. Also, I experimented by casting some down votes for a few of the comments, and noticed that all of those are gone as well.
Has anyone else noticed this with YouTube?
You were shadow banned. A common tactic of ledt wing social media.
ReplyDeleteThat must be it. Thank you. I tried to soften my comments (even trying to write it in a "movie review" style comparing it to another "Good Samaritan") video that the Church had released in 2012, but apparently that was not good enough to get by censors.
DeleteDavid Shimm is correct. Sites attached to zuckerberg seem to be the worst.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that down-votes are not censored or hidden. At least give the video a thumbs-down vote.
ReplyDeleteI'll give it a try. Thanks.
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