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When they were talking about how a lot of the directors were black and the victims were black, I was actually kind of expecting them to splice in Rich Evans going "I want that juicy Shaq meat."
 
Tepes Thot said:
I’m not overly familiar with Dhamer, but are there really accounts of cops giving him passes and saying stuff like “you’ve got your whole life ahead of you”? That’s just cringe and weird.

It’s Netflix, so shock, but I’ve just been cringing the entire review.
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Their entire bit with the white women being reported missing in the media with funhouse clown music in the background was more cringe and entirely in worst taste than Netflix implying the police ignored Dahmer because he's white and his victims were minorities and not because they had no reason to suspect him of anything other than a gay domestic violence thing with the one guy that managed to get away at first. Or them saying that these true crime documentaries were not showing respect to victims, isn't that what they were doing with comedy music rolling tapes of missing dead white women?
 
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DustBuns said:
Their entire bit with the white women being reported missing in the media with funhouse clown music in the background was more cringe and entirely in worst taste than Netflix implying the police ignored Dahmer because he's white and his victims were minorities and not because they had no reason to suspect him if anything other than a gay domestic violence thing with the one guy that managed to get away at first. Or them saying that these true crime documentaries were not shoeing respect to victims, isn't that what they were doing with comedy music rolling tapes of missing dead white women?
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That’s true actually. That part I went and got some water because it fell flat like their “old people and tech” skit a few vids back. Stuff like that fuels the people who enjoy exploitation, so they cancelled out their point.

I’m honestly unsure what the point of this review is, but I guess that’s fitting since they were unsure of the point of the mini series.
 
This video reeked of "it's trending, we need to make a video about it"
Also the narrative of cops being especially nice to white people while we see daily assaults and murders by black men with a laundry list of arrests that for some reason can't keep them behind bars is getting tiresome.
 
Well Dahmer is a "hometown boy" so I think they had more reasons to review it than "just" it being trendy.
 
Guys, remember the time period the murders were going on. Those shitty excuses you hear these days actually had merit back then.
 
The whole true story murderer movie/tv show crap has been downhill since Henry: Potrait of A Serial Killer. Nothing can top 80 minutes of Michael Rooker and pretending the film isn't exploitation. At least Henry had the videotape scene which seemed to probe about why we enjoy slashers so much.

I would have preferred a re:view on that show about the missing dude Mike talked about.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Guys, remember the time period the murders were going on. Those shitty excuses you hear these days actually had merit back then.
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The show even uses fake news reports in the background, as though they feared if the audience heard actual news reports from during the crack epidemic that they'd go, "oh, no wonder why the police couldn't be bothered to show up every time someone complained of a smelly apartment."
 
Flexo said:
Well Dahmer is a "hometown boy" so I think they had more reasons to review it than "just" it being trendy.
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The part about the murder tour got a wtf chuckle out of me.
Imagine one of the most famous people from your city is Jeffery Dahmer. Milwaukee is….a place.
 
That entire white girl visual diatribe just felt entirely dishonest. Like, what exactly was the point? I see minorities and fags on the news all the time when it comes to missing person reports.

Even in the context of the early 90s, like yeah no shit, there's no fucking way they're going to highlight a bunch of missing gays, they were still handled by the general public as boogeymen. Things change in 30 years, just as things are radically different in the past.
 
Goyaanisqatsi said:
That entire white girl visual diatribe just felt entirely dishonest. Like, what exactly was the point? I see minorities and fags on the news all the time when it comes to missing person reports.

Even in the context of the early 90s, like yeah no shit, there's no fucking way they're going to highlight a bunch of missing gays, they were still handled by the general public as boogeymen. Things change in 30 years, just as things are radically different in the past.
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Yeah, I didn't like that bit and I don't know what was going on there. Jay might be sipping on the woke poison.
 
Jeff Gerstmann said:
Missing minorities only usually get picked up by local news for a night, but a young, pretty blonde will get picked up by CNN and Fox for weeks.

See: Gabby Petito
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I hope you're being facetious. The case with Petito was unique in that the boyfriend came back, refused to work with police and then he took off. There was more to it then just a missing woman.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Yeah, I didn't like that bit and I don't know what was going on there. Jay might be sipping on the woke poison.
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I know i heard from somewhere an interesting idea that the reason they don't pick up missing blacks that much is because it's often a black on black murder, and we can't have that, if Dahmer was black we wouldn't remember his name to this day (outside True Crime enthusiasts)
 
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