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deeman said:
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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Or if a story changes. Remember once upon a time (during Trump) that a car with a black family in it was shot at. (I think a kid in it was killed.) It was making national news while it was believed that a white dude in a pick up had shot at the family, but as soon as it came out that it was in fact another black person who had mistaken the car for a rival gang the story was dropped.
 
Hazel Motes said:
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.
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We need a Carl Panzram biography. There's not enough early 1900's true crime serial killer stuff. The old timey psychos were way worse than what we have now.

Also it takes place during the early experimental prison reform days which is an interesting time in history.
 
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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It was pretty "funny" how in the same video they talk about the tastelessness and exploitation of the tours and some of the movies they go on to show a montage of actually missing (and some dead) women to circus music
 

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Does anyone have the 2020 halloween BOTW or the return of the Ninja videos? They were age restricted by some prick.
 
It's weird to say "Dahlmer was given a pass because he was the white" when he was raping boys. Like, yea back in the 80s or whatever the establishment just loooooved gay people

Like there is some truth that a pretty white girl getting killed does get attention, but it's gotten to the point that people like pointing it out so much that they now actively complain when we actually have empathy for a woman getting raped and killed. Like that Chappelle bit about why didnt the media cover the black girl who escaped and not the white girl who got raped and killed. Like maybe because the other one survived? Come on, guys

Like do the people who say this really read the news? Because if they did theyd see a lot of homeless black guys killing people and then it never being mentioned again. Should we encourage the media to do week-long witch hunts of black men? No, because i'm not as petty as twitter-addicts or rightoid boomers who think the media focusing on something is inherently bad because it's not the race of the person I personally feel empathy about
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
It's weird to say "Dahlmer was given a pass because he was the white" when he was raping boys. Like, yea back in the 80s or whatever the establishment just loooooved gay people
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It's interesting. There's a law enforcement manual I've read that goes in depth on homicide investigation and there's an entire chapter dealing with homosexual homicides:

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Law enforcement in general have tended to be as 'hands off' as possible when it comes to dealing with/helping the gay community, so 2 police officers in fucking Wisconsin in the 80s/90s aren't going to want to have anything to do with it if they could help it.
 
BrunoMattei said:
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.
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Laci Peterson, Natalie Holloway and Elizabeth Smart are all stories off the top of my head that seemed to receive disproportionate media coverage. Petito was just the latest occurrence of such.

The uncomfortable truth is that folks from affluent middle-to-upper class backgrounds tend to garner headlines because it is uncommon for such things to be happening.

A prostitute with a drug addiction living in the projects going missing and/or turns up dead? Many such cases. It's also why someone like Tiffany Whitton (a methhead with a criminal record) didn't really garner much attention despite being white, young, and pretty.
 
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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From a journalist POV, if a person is missing or dead, you have a few boxes to check for content. :
Is the story interesting?
Does the story resonate sympathetically with the general public?
Are the family and friends accessible?
Are the family and friends sympathetic and truthful?

Generally, black Americans that go missing or die, don't have that sympathy or truth angle.
See ; Kenneka Jenkins. Interesting story, messy as fuck and ghetto everything else. It got attention, but the friends and family made the case prohibitive to follow. It's the same with the Summer Welles case. The parents are white hillbillies and it makes the case unsympathetic.

Either way, I can't tolerate when they (usually Jay because he's a manlet) try and include some social issues bullshit.
I know they're kidult dweebs, but it's irritating to see men be such weak cucks.
 
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