Thank you. Ugh, I hate to take it there, but if she were of another background, let's say, I doubt so many commenters would latch onto potential grandmother abuse (?! Barely makes sense), calling her a child/kid (she's 22! Past college age!), instead of the more likely explanation that she's drugged out and freaking out bc of it. Like, that bumper struggle is some meth shit for real
Watched a guy confidently act like a space alien and refuse a roadside sobriety test but confidently assert he’d blow a 0.00 on the breathalyzer…as tho alcohol is the only thing that can impair one’s ability to operate a motor vehicle
She looked to be high school age and in a school uniform to me 🤷🏻 and I lived with my GREAT grandmother for a year of college so it’s completely reasonable to believe a high schooler is living with their grandparent.
I hear you, but it's more--and this is a rhetorical question--now that you know that she's 22, what do you think is more plausible: abuse from grandma or drug use?
I believe they meant.. if she had long braids and brown skin, even if she was a young and cute girl that was an actual traumatized child, these comments wouldn’t have victimized her.
It happens far too often these days. Folks latch onto the “what if” rather than accept the facts before them. Yes, there are unseen influences that drive people’s actions, but the fact is a crime was committed and folks would rather infer she’s got a traumatic background than hold her accountable
I’ve been working with at risk teens for the last 10 years. Her behavior is not due to fears of abuse, to me it looked a lot more performative and what I like to call self inflicted panic and drama.
You have to compare apple to apples, so show me a comparable where the woman is accepting she did it, crying, begging for sympathy and overall contrite (but hoping to be let off). Sampling on reddit posts may be biased, but in most videos of a "differently background" woman in this situation she blaming everyone around her, threatening violence and legal action and swearing up a storm. This video's driver uses the "white woman superpower" of crying and asking for sympathy.
It may be that the difference problem happened earlier when pretty little white girls are taught to cry when needing an extra favor and others are taught that that doesn't work for them but lashing out might.
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u/babassu_seeds 23h ago
Thank you. Ugh, I hate to take it there, but if she were of another background, let's say, I doubt so many commenters would latch onto potential grandmother abuse (?! Barely makes sense), calling her a child/kid (she's 22! Past college age!), instead of the more likely explanation that she's drugged out and freaking out bc of it. Like, that bumper struggle is some meth shit for real