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Mike, its funny too. I go through Auburn all the time and think to myself how safe it looks. I mean I don't know if many people on here have ever been to Auburn but its a small town and on days that school isn't in, not much goes on. I mean it looks almost deserted when the classes are all done. Its a small town but its a wonderful place to see the true spirit of Alabama academics and athletics. We take a lot of pride in how we look to the rest of the country so this senseless death is a shock to me as an Auburn man.
Totally senseless and a damn shame
Would this have made national news if she weren't a pretty white girl? I mean, stuff like this is pretty awful, but I do ask myself if it's really national news. People get murdered every day, but we only hear about it nationally when the person is young, pretty, white, and female. Because that's what the media assumes we'll all identify with, i.e, that could be my daughter, that could be my sister. It's plays on our culturally-embedded sympathy for women or anyone else we deem to be helpless or more vulnerable. It's the same reason child abductions are all over the news (when the child is white, of course).
If a black girl in the inner city goes missing, how often is it on the national news? If two little Hispanic kids vanish from the bus stop in El Paso, does Fox put it on their site? Of course not. Missing white kids and missing pretty white chicks are national news - other missing and murdered people aren't. So annoying.
Would this have made national news if she weren't a pretty white girl? I mean, stuff like this is pretty awful, but I do ask myself if it's really national news. People get murdered every day, but we only hear about it nationally when the person is young, pretty, white, and female. Because that's what the media assumes we'll all identify with, i.e, that could be my daughter, that could be my sister. It's plays on our culturally-embedded sympathy for women or anyone else we deem to be helpless or more vulnerable. It's the same reason child abductions are all over the news (when the child is white, of course).
If a black girl in the inner city goes missing, how often is it on the national news? If two little Hispanic kids vanish from the bus stop in El Paso, does Fox put it on their site? Of course not. Missing white kids and missing pretty white chicks are national news - other missing and murdered people aren't. So annoying.
I tend to agree in a way, but when things happen on major Universities as is the case right now... the media is going to cover it. The shootings at the BR campus (not LSU) a few weeks ago involved non-whites IIRC and it was covered.
OK, let's make a test of this. Did you hear about the murder of a Duke graduate student a month ago on national news, at an apartment close to campus?
Classroom shootings are one thing - they're always going to cover that. But when it's just your average, run of the mill kidnapping, robbery, or random murder, the victim almost always has to be white, female, and young for it to make national news. And preferably blonde, although brunettes and raven-haired beauties occasionally make the cut.
OK, let's make a test of this. Did you hear about the murder of a Duke graduate student a month ago on national news, at an apartment close to campus?
Classroom shootings are one thing - they're always going to cover that. But when it's just your average, run of the mill kidnapping, robbery, or random murder, the victim almost always has to be white, female, and young for it to make national news. And preferably blonde, although brunettes and raven-haired beauties occasionally make the cut.
Nope.. I guess you win :dunno:
Somewhat different circumstances. Your example was a murder victim that happend to go to college. The one that started this thread the crime occurred ON campus (wrt the car anyway).
Before you flame me (as it seems you are abit angry for some reason) I see your point...I am just pointing out that your example isn't a great one.