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Article title and POV leanings

I've been going through the history of riots, many seem to appear to be in the USA. There appears to be a common theme however in the titling of articles on Wikipedia. Race riots where the rioting group were white are listed and named as race riots, but where it's any other group it's simply listed as a 'riot' and the entire angle of the article is revisionist. I'm from a non-English speaking background in southeast Asia, and find this hypocrisy to be quite perplexing. Numerous editors (especially foreigners such as myself) point out in the history of this talk page that it should be termed a race riot, yet it appears to be outright ignored.

Can someone please enlighten me why there appears to be blatant NPOV slants on this issue? As someone with no dog in this race attempting to research the subject I find the overt bias and delegitimization of the victims of these horrific crimes to be very confusing. Vergilianae (talk) 03:49, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, the reason is that the mainstream view in the public debate on these issues is not in fact objective. Therefore NPOV does not really mean 'no point of view', it just means not diverting from the mainstream view (in the media, because those are the sources). The victims of the current riot - even if they are black storeowners - will also matter less. We can only wait for the day not far from now, that these pages will be retiteled, since now rioting is just 'protesting'. Dg21dg21 (talk) 22:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV actually means "neutral point of view" rather than "no point of view".

Wikipedia articles do tend to defer to "mainstream" US media, even when the MSM are clearly biased. I don't think this is policy, though; it just reflects preponderance of unconscious bias among Wikipedia editors. Longitude2 (talk) 13:24, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it assumed that Koreatown was only attacked because white areas were better protected? When Baltimore rioted over Freddie Gray the crowds there targeted Korean owned businesses and there isn't a white person of note in the power structure of that city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.162.0.126 (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone clarify this sentence?

"With these misunderstandings between the two races, many believe that education is the only way to gis rid of these conflicts in the future." I'm not sure.

Plus Black, as in the race, is inconsistently capitalized in the article. Could someone fix it? Thanks. I don't want to edit over someone who may understand better.--KimYunmi (talk) 17:52, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]