Teenagers Being Abducted

[hollaatmenow]

So my sister pointed this out. Seeing as the Trayvon Martin case has gotten a lot of attention nationwide and was believed to be a racially motivated incident, here in Northern California a 15-year-old has gone missing and she seems to be getting a lot of attention. Her purse and phone were found in different places and many fear that she is just dead, and yeah it's a really tragic and sad story but a lot of child abductions happen but it just seems like the more prettier, popular girls who get abducted get more attention. I was talking about this with a friend and we think it's unfair.

When a girl that looks like this and is a cheerleader gets abducted:



It's huge news, and there are searches being made everywhere for her, which is definitely what should be done.




But when a girl looks like this gets abducted:



..Nobody really cares because she isn't as popular and isn't a cheerleader... but she's still cute.


So I just find it weird how in America at least, this happens. My sister said in the state alone there's like at least 20 missing youth and one of them is the one girl I mentioned who is receiving a lot of attention, but the others who are in their early teens and pre-teens are not getting nearly as much attention. So what does the TBA community think of this? Totally unfair or that's just how our human mind really works?

[ZennyPLUS]

It's called Missing White Women Syndrome, something that the mainstream media has installed into the American mindset. Basically, if you're a person of color or a minority of some sort, any bad shit can happen to you, not too often you hear in the US about young black or hispanic women going missing, the media doesn't think Americans should care about those people. But when something tragic happens to the pristine, white girl, then it's HOLY FUCK, CALL THE WHITE HOUSE, MWWS FULL ON. It's the notion that bad things don't normally happen to white women; especially if they're between the ages of 13 - 29, grown up mid to upper middle class, and have a bright future ahead of them AND are attractive/beautiful. Not playing favorites with races here, it's the sad truth of corporate media.

[CoolDrMoney]

I don't understand the topic. It's not like abductions even happen that often. Just the other day I wa

[naturally]

people suck

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I don't understand the topic. It's not like abductions even happen that often. Just the other day I wa

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[BluPhoenix]

[ExistingViolation]

It's called Missing White Women Syndrome, something that the mainstream media has installed into the American mindset. Basically, if you're a person of color or a minority of some sort, any bad shit can happen to you, not too often you hear in the US about young black or hispanic women going missing, the media doesn't think Americans should care about those people. But when something tragic happens to the pristine, white girl, then it's HOLY FUCK, CALL THE WHITE HOUSE, MWWS FULL ON. It's the notion that bad things don't normally happen to white women; especially if they're between the ages of 13 - 29, grown up mid to upper middle class, and have a bright future ahead of them AND are attractive/beautiful. Not playing favorites with races here, it's the sad truth of corporate media.

the painful painful truth. 

[Gladius]

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