[extropy-chat] Death Toll

Technotranscendence neptune at superlink.net
Mon Jul 11 03:33:00 UTC 2005


On Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:49 PM Olga Bourlin fauxever at sprynet.com
wrote:
> I will jump to a hunch, and say that IMO something like what is
imputed in
> the article below cannot be discounted:
>
> "JonBenet Ramsey, Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart... all household
names
> right? Well then how about Alexis Patterson, Georgia Moses, or even
Evelyn
> Hernandez? Chances are you've never heard of them. Yet all of these
women
> were victims of brutal kidnappings. The difference is that Patterson,
Moses,
> and Hernandez were women of color and the reality is that nobody
cares. "

I think it can be discounted for one reason alone:  they become
household names partly because of other people.  For instance, someone
else might not be racist, either implicitly or explicitly, but unless
they closely follow non-mainstream news closely, she or he will hear
more about the former set and much less about the latter.

Regards,

Dan




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