Posted on 09/24/2021 2:59:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
On MSNBC, Joy Reid suggests that the sensationalism around the disappearance and presumed murder of Gabby Petito is a symptom of a prevailing systemic and cultural bias called “Missing White Woman Syndrome.” There is a media and public fascination with “missing white women,” she says, while the media and public ignore “cases involving missing people of color.”
The charge, of course, is that Americans are only interested in Petito’s disappearance and death because she’s white, and they’d be much less interested, and the media would be less sensational in reporting all of it, if they thought something bad had happened to a “person of color.”
This led me to be immediately reminded of a moment in recent history where the culture and media were much less interested in the disappearance and death of an innocent young white girl than, say, the death of a black teenager who had violently assaulted another man without physical provocation, and was killed as a court-determined matter of legally justifiable self-defense.
Back in 2012, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin, you may be surprised to hear, more correctly accused the Democratic Party of precisely the opposite of Reid’s charge. Speaking to Florida House Representative Corrine Brown about the national outcry over the death of Trayvon Martin, Baldwin asked if she and her “fellow African-American lawmakers” would “be as concerned about this case if Trayvon wasn’t black?”
“Oh, let me tell you something,” Congresswoman Brown said. “We had an incident in my area where a young white female was murdered and I was just as concerned, absolutely. I care about all the children. You know, you can make this…”
Baldwin refused to let her get away with that. She interjected, asking, “Congresswoman Brown, what was her name?”
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Imagine the outrage if someone pointed out that there would not have been nearly as much fuss over George Floyd if he had been white.
MWWS is a handy distraction from all the mismanagement by our betters in DC.
It’s not just George Floyd, the media has an entirely different standard of reporting when it comes to black people vs white people.
I live in Rochester, New York. Did you ever hear the name “Terry Amenhauser”? Terry was an older white person with some mental disabilities. He was taking a nap in his living room inside his apartment when two black teenagers broke into his house, doused him with lighter fluid, and burned him alive. They threatened witnesses “you tell them white people did this!”. I find it interesting that Terry’s story did not make national news, but if the races had been reveresed you would have been hearing about “White Supremacy” for the next six weeks on the news, not to mention the riots and civil unrest.
Let’s test that with a quick “MISSING JOY REID”
This is beyond disgusting. Reid spews racist hatred.
nobody would miss her though.
Even worse, the news media coining this term is deliberately putting these “news” stories out there simply as a distraction from the deconstruction of our country, our way of life, and the future of our children. THEY MADE THIS A STORY - I didn’t ask for it.
It is interesting that black leaders are showing far more anger at people following this case, then they showing towards the ongoing bloodbath of blacks in Chicago.
Let me get this straight..
The enemedia is complaining that the enemedia is doing all these missing while woman stories...?
Say whuuuuut????
She is a racist. The other day Tucker Carlson had a segment on about her and she told another person that she went to Harvard but told the other person was only a bar tender or something like that. And no she didn’t talk to AOC, as the other person was a conservative.
Someone should tell Joy she has her own show and can feature whatever stories she would like.
Boyfriend abuse is a serious problem check with Yeardley love’s parents or Ally Kostial’s.Joy Reid should shut her pie whole. I hope her show gets canceled over this.
There are plenty of white George Floyd’s on utube. One of the most difficult to watch I’d a youngster who was suffocated on the top of a police car hood in full view of the camera. It gives me Willie’s to think of it.
And they never seem to be so upset when normal, law abiding black Americans are killed.
The way to identify any thug's race - any criminal who beats up a white person - is to notice the press never mentions race when the criminal is black.
Oh and the picture of Joy Reid with this story shows her wearing 'blackface'... well wearing white women's hair which is the same thing - - cultural appropriation of OUR hair... Joy Reid and other blacks need to wear their own damn hair. And they need to stop bleaching their skin and straitening their hair.
Can YOU imagine the outrage if Walmart had a cosmetics section dedicated to 'blackface' so white people could easily buy things to make them look black?
Reid’s statement wasn’t just racist, it was also just plain stupid. The Gabby Petito case received so much media attention because of how unusual, even bizarre the circumstances of the case were.
Gabby Petito is sexy. She made tons of videos and pictures that the media can use to get ratings.
If it was a sexy latina or black woman, the media would do the same thing.
You mean she was sexy. That creep boyfriend of her killed her.
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