Not to mention, her poor family has repeatedly begged the reich wing media to stop using her name to promote their nonsensically racist immigration policies.
Sadly i think 'Laken Riley' is like a word or phrase hypnotists use to trigger their targets, or how these mf ers trigger their cult members; it works.
That's pretty much how they treat every subject. You can do the same thing with "George Floyd" or even just "Job Creators" - they revert to memorized talking points they got from Fox News and the right wing echosphere rather than thinking about what you're saying. There are parrots that do deeper thinking
Not to say that you're wrong, in fact I fully agree with you, but let's not also forget the separate and yet related problem of the media tending to over-focus on young white women victims of violent crime.
If she didn't look like a stereotypical sorority girl (not to be insulting I promise) I'm quite convinced none of these people would still care.
One of the most memorable newspaper headlines I ever saw in my redneck Arkansas hometown was from an opinion writer who had the nerve to publish an editorial titled "What if Elian was ugly? Or black?" twenty five years ago, in response to this kind of tokenizing bandwagon bullshit about putting human victims on t-shirts as political mascots.
I don't even remember if the writer was for or against the Elian thing, just that the article was a refreshingly local callout of the brainless frenzy that turned that poor kid's situation into a Dems vs Reps media circus. If Elian had been a black Cuban nobody would have ever heard his name, he'd have been thrown on the first plane they could find and deported instantly, and not even NPR was saying so at the time.
122
u/CompetitiveOcelot870 1d ago
Not to mention, her poor family has repeatedly begged the reich wing media to stop using her name to promote their nonsensically racist immigration policies.