S/O of Lululemon: Are white women's live's more valuable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are facinated and it is getting so much attention because it happened in downtown Bethesda, at an UPSCALE store that RICH people shop at. period. the end. Things like this do not normally happen in yoga stores that sell pants for $150. Even littering is frowned upon in Bethesda, you can't even so much throw a bananna peel out your window without getting dirty looks from pedestrians. Now we have a murder....when is the last time that happened?

This is not just another dead prostitute or another black on black murder in PG. Why would people get in an uproar due to another murder in PG? That just more the the same old same old. yawn.

So. To you, the black people's lives are worth less. Just like the comic says in the video.

[Anonymous]

Hilarious video, OP!!!

And, it's funny...because it's true!

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Anonymous wrote:i think the lululemon case would have got as much attention as it did even if the blond girl had killed the black girl.
it was where and how that mattered most, not who.

Yeah - this just isn't the right example. Kidnapping, gun violence, sextuplets - those are all MUCH more important when white people are involved.

Nadya Suleman's only half white, so does she count?

Actually, they were not sextuplets, but were octuplets. She rightfully got a ton of publicity because they are the longest surviving octuplets in the entire world for all of history. Black or white, that is pretty remarkable.

As far as multiples born, she is a record holder for most babies every birthed at one time, surviving the longest in history, she is a world/history record holder.

Yeah, because the spectacle of a woman of color breeding the biggest litter of live beings ever is an "achievement" we should all aspire to...sad. When black women do these things it gets scornful attention, mostly.

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apparently

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I guess so. Nobody here cared about the Pakistani and Sri Lankan men who were shot at random in Olney. I'd be MUCH more concerned about some guy going around just shooting people than a murder committed in a business after hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i think the lululemon case would have got as much attention as it did even if the blond girl had killed the black girl.
it was where and how that mattered most, not who.

That is not true, nobody knew the girl that killed her was black until the said how she spelled her name. a day after the arrest nobody was reporting anything on it except the DCUM vice squad.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess so. Nobody here cared about the Pakistani and Sri Lankan men who were shot at random in Olney. I'd be MUCH more concerned about some guy going around just shooting people than a murder committed in a business after hours.

I cared They both sounded like good people. I felt so sad for the Sri Lankan, particularly, because he was young and lived with family here -- they looked so bereft when I saw it on the news. I was also very sad for the Pakistani man, but in a different way...seems like he didn't have anyone (they originally thought it was a suicide). It's so sad when older people die alone.

Man, this is making me sad

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Anonymous wrote:I guess so. Nobody here cared about the Pakistani and Sri Lankan men who were shot at random in Olney. I'd be MUCH more concerned about some guy going around just shooting people than a murder committed in a business after hours.

I know, or how about the young black girl who's been missing out of Baltimore for a couple months now? Just disappeared without a trace...

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Anonymous wrote:And PS it was not a random crime dumb ass!

Wow, pp. Settle. We now know it was not random. And as horrible as that is, it is relief to many. Just hope this doesn't morph into the OJ case with the same sort of racial divide wrt guilt or innocence.

I doubt it. No one is as up in arms as the privileged Bethesda folks. I would venture that others throughout MD don't even know about this crime. At least not to the rabid obsession that some of you folks have.

[Anonymous]

In the Starbucks murder even Janet Reno got into it. People in DC are murdered daily, and that case grabbed her attention.
I heard that white women are least likely to be murdered, but the death penalty is given mostly for killing a white woman.
I knew some of E. Smart's relatives and they all admitted that she got a lot of attention because she was very white and pretty. If she were obese, riddled with acne, Hispanic from a trailer park, it would not have made national news.
Once a newscaster asked me for names of families who had been injured by a product, since they wanted to do a story on it. They said they needed names of families with white female children, or else people would switch channels.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess so. Nobody here cared about the Pakistani and Sri Lankan men who were shot at random in Olney. I'd be MUCH more concerned about some guy going around just shooting people than a murder committed in a business after hours.

I know, or how about the young black girl who's been missing out of Baltimore for a couple months now? Just disappeared without a trace...

And yet how much news coverage is given to her case? When Elizabeth Smart was missing, you couldn't get away from the news coverage. Those who don't see the bias in how white vs. non-white missing children are treated/reported are delusional.

[Anonymous]

Are white women's live's more valuable?

Just ask the hundreds of black men lynched for daring to whistle at them.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think the bias is race. But people are fixated about this because this crime occurred close to home - either physically close or because people shop there.

We are far more callous with crimes that are safely away from us.

The reason we have so many Nancy Drews on the thread is that posters need to make sense of the crime so they feel safe that it won't happen to them. The scariest feeling is that it might be random and unforeseeable, that people like that might attack you on the street or in your home.

OMG its you again! You had to post this BS on another thread. I think you are the one that has to make sense of it to feel safe stop blaing your ignorance and stupidity on other posters. You are annoying just go away!

What are you talking about? You must be angry with someone else.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think the bias is race. But people are fixated about this because this crime occurred close to home - either physically close or because people shop there.

We are far more callous with crimes that are safely away from us.

The reason we have so many Nancy Drews on the thread is that posters need to make sense of the crime so they feel safe that it won't happen to them. The scariest feeling is that it might be random and unforeseeable, that people like that might attack you on the street or in your home.

OMG its you again! You had to post this BS on another thread. I think you are the one that has to make sense of it to feel safe stop blaing your ignorance and stupidity on other posters. You are annoying just go away!

I'm not the PP you're responding to. I wrote something similar on the thread asking if any Bethesda residents were doing anything different for security. I'm sorry it annoys you. But, you should do a little reading before rambling about it being BS. It's a legitimate theory and applicable to the conversation.

[Anonymous]

I absolutely do not deny that white people's deaths are more sensationalized, considered more newsworthy, get a bigger reaction. People respond more intensly when the victim is perceived as being like them. And in this country white people are still the majority. So the largest group of news consumers is consuming sensational news about people like them or their family members. Not that surprising.

Additionally, it is also the exceptional circumstances of some of these high profile crimes that captivate people's attention.

In the Elizabeth Smart Case, it was that someone came in her window and stole her right out from under her parents' noses. Similar with Jon Benet Ramsey - in the home, on Christmas. People find these kinds of crimes especially frightening. I think if even a pretty young white girl like Elizabeth Smart was doing drugs somewhere, people would not be so surprised by her disappearance. Same thing with Kyron Hormon - the kid disappeared from school, seemingly a safe place, and the implication is that his step mom was involved - someone we would think could be trusted. Natalie Holloway was on a class trip. She wasn't in the red light district of the inner city prostituting herself. Lululemon, it was just a couple of coworkers in a nice area, brutally attacked (or so it seemed). I don't know how intensely the case was covered nationally. The outcome is even more bizarre and attention getting, less because of the race of either party but more because it was co-worker on coworker and the incredible brutality of the murder. My point being that in all these cases, there is something unusually shocking about them.

I think that it's when seemingly nice, normal people in what should be non-risky circumstances are victims of shocking crimes, it gets more attention.

The young lady who disappeared in Bethesda - it's not like that case has gone unpublicized or unresponded to. There's been significant press coverage and police resources devoted to it. And as of now there is no evidence of a sensational crime - there's unfortunately very little evidence at all There's no indication of WHAT might have happened, yet.


I admit that white victims get more attention and reaction. But it's also simplistic to say it's only about race. The circumstances of the crime also play into the amount of attention a case gets.