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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
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Originally Posted by Detoxing
White might have something to do with it, but i think it's more about what we the public perceive as a weak, underserved victims that we identify as people that need our protection. Being attractive matters. It matters in many ways in life, no matter how much and how many people deny it.
Pettit, pretty women in general get coverage.
Children get coverage. Children from more affluent neighborhoods get more coverage. Likely because more resources are available and used.
In San Diego, i've been hearing about the missing Maya Millete. She's a cute little 5'-something-tiny filipino woman. She's been missing since January 7th and to this day they still cover her story on the news. 9-months missing and she's STILL getting coverage. Most people don't get any coverage at all.
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It seems like it's far far more a function of being extreme outliers than being about race. There are tons of missing and exploited people, all day every day, but only once every few years or so do the facts of cases become so unique or intriguing that they grab national attention. The details meet the criteria for intrigue. And when you only have a handful of things happening in a demographically skewed nation, your imagination starts turning very rare things that share a number of markers of which race is an incidental one, into omnipresent phenomena that are driven by the racial factor.
Kind of like how serial killers are exceedingly rare, and among that exceedingly rare group there are a handful of demographic minorities, whether racial, ethnic, or gendered [Samuel Little, Eileen Wournos], but the details of a handful of that already slim handful are so striking [Bundy, Gacy] that a narrative arises that serial killers always fit the mold of the most striking examples in our minds.
Further interfering with this dynamic, as expressed by the Hodge Twins above a little more bluntly, there is a sense of communal reticence to publicize the details of some minority on minority malfeasance because of both systemic reticence to interact with authorities, and a pre-emptive sense that 'dirty laundry' of perpetrators will reflect badly on the entire community.
Again, note that, in the vast swathes of 'run-of-the-mill' missing and exploited persons in the 'white' community, there are also plenty who might have benefitted from additional attention and scrutiny and the persons involved in those matters were likewise reticent to publicize or get into detail for similar reasons. So it's still a matter of percentages and not factoring in 'the dog that didn't bark' in these rare maters, more than a matter of race.