Joy Reid dismisses interest in Gabby Petito as ‘missing white woman syndrome’
I've long called discussions about white privilege to be thinly veiled racism against whites. In it's most academic arguments, it's a poorly evidenced and basically immeasurable/undetectable accusation of unconscious racism that favors whites over everyone else. In that form, it's an interesting bit of speculation that doesn't really explain anything. After all, there's no way to detect "white privilege" and certainly no way to measure its effects.
That should have been the beginning and end of the term...but instead, it's been picked up and used as an explanation for anything by people who are racist against whites. Does a white person have a better job than you? White privilege. Does your child's school teach them about European history? White privilege. Even if you aren't white and you have achieved the same thing as a white person....be it a degree or level success at a career....you can still claim that you worked harder, or the white person didn't have to overcome as many obstacles, because of white privilege.
Here now, we have a black woman on tv lamenting that a dead white girl has benefitted from her white privilege even as a corpse. These racists think there's never a bad time to draw attention to some imaginary racial victimhood....even if that time is during a tragedy where a family has found their dead daughter.
"Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome - the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing White women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway, while ignoring cases involving people of colour,” the host of ReidOut on MSNBC said."
Remarkable. It's as if these racists were in a coma during all of 2020 when millions protested daily over crimes committed against black people. I suppose they imagine that no white people were wrongly shot by police during that whole time. They don't see this horrible tragedy unfold and think "
what an awful thing for this girl's family to go through"....
They think "
how can I make this story about black people and how they are the real victims"?
It's as if this case doesn't deserve the attention the media has given it...because the victim is white. You would think that since they spend so much time bringing attention to black victimhood, no matter how small or petty, they would appreciate taking a little break from it.
Instead, it appears they resent it. It's as if the constant stream of racism towards whites, and the devaluation of our struggles and achievements (through the accusation of white privilege) has left these racists at a point where they become angry that the media would dare give attention to the horrible tragedy and struggle this white family is going through.
It's disgusting that these racists and their racist beliefs have become so mainstream on the left that discussions like this are taken seriously...instead of dismissed as the racist garbage they are.
Thoughts?
