Of course it exists. Joy Reid Is … Right?
Nearly all my fellow conservatives are shrieking in anger at MSNBC’s Joy Reid for saying something that is actually true: There is such a thing as “Missing White Woman Syndrome.”
Someone counted up how many native American women have gone missing in the state Petito disappeared. The number is not small, and yet there has been no national media attention.
That’s the thing about a Missing White Woman story — the damsel-in-distress angle only works, in terms of TV news ratings, if the missing woman is young and attractive, preferably blonde. Males can and do go missing, but those disappearances never dominate national news. It’s always a woman, and a young, attractive woman — if she’s old, fat or ugly, nobody cares if she goes missing. But the nubile blonde? Oh, yeah, that’s nationwide headline stuff, because she’s Prime Rape Bait, and sex is the secret ingredient in the Missing White Woman story.
And it helps that the media is trying its best to distract you from every travesty of the Biden Administration.
Or consider the complete failure of Democratic policies in Chicago.
During the month of August, when Gabby and her boyfriend were on their excursion across the West, 87 people were killed and 424 were wounded in Chicago. Did any of those Chicago victims make national news? Well, about 83% of the victims in Chicago were black, and none were blonde, blue-eyed 22-year-old “social media influencers.” Not newsworthy, you see?
And I love the fact that The Other McCain is using HeyJackass! for statistics. Anyway, click thru for more insights.
A post at Gun Free Zone the other day pointed out the inconsistencies of someone complaining about that case versus the lack of coverage of missing American Indian women in the same area. It isn't so much the whiteness as it is the attractiveness combined with the lack of obvious explanations: no adolescent rebellion, drug problem, abusive partner. We're left with just wonder and fear. In too many other cases, we have all-too-familiar explanations that the complainers wouldn't want reported. Reporting on Gabby Petito doesn't reflect on anyone's police policies, does it?
ReplyDeleteNovelty and the easy emotional link provide the "hook" for the media. 'Sides, noticing the chaos in the Democratic inner cities would be "Racisss" and an attack on the regime. Intolerable, that. I read that the "Res" is no different.
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