Here are the only facts that we know: a jazz fan and Westbrook get into it during a game. There is a rather inconclusive video of the exchange. They make conflicting claims about the tone and content of the exchange after the fact to media outlets.

With those facts in mind, the exchange is then taken and manipulated into a false narrative. The whole false narrative is that the Utah Jazz fanbase is a bunch of racist white guys that make overtly racist statements to players. This has to be the case because Utah is pretty much all white people, and as we all know, white people are all racist. If a player makes a claim that a Utah fan makes a racial slur, regardless if it's true or not, it's taken at face value because Utahans are all white and racist. It's proof that the Jazz fan base must be racist and that Utah sucks because of all the white racists. It all HAS to be true, right?

The narrative is all based on prejudgment of an entire people, and truth doesn't matter when it confirms that prejudgment. Social media takes that bias to a whole new level, and whips an entire segment of society into a frenzy. We then have people come here to CB and tell Jazz fans how bad they are and use it to validate some other biased argument. Jazz fans then try to circle the wagons and blame a smaller subsection of their fanbase as a second layer of confirmation bias. Twitter is aflame with a perceivably justified hatred toward the Jazz and their fanbase because, well, they're all racists right?

This is the same conversation that is had on so many topics in our society, crossing politics, entertainment, religion, and any other demographic or classification out there. Our society has been enslaved by short-sighted, self-serving confirmation bias. This latest Westbrook thing with the Jazz is just another example. it's really sad.