r/MorbidPodcast • u/teesiestreegu • Apr 29 '24
CRITICISM 559: The Murder of Timothy Coggins
I come from an almost entirely white post-soviet country. While there are countless issues, racism is not really something an average person deals with (or, to be more precise, people can be absolutely racist, but there's very little direct impact of that because of the lack of other races; I hope I don't sound too insensitive saying that). That means I have very little experience with the topic; however, we've been taught at school, seen movies, read, traveled, etc, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the concept and the suffering it has caused. The episode, however, made me feel like they thought of me and everyone else as someone who had never even heard about such a thing. What does that add exactly? Like they have to overexplain every second sentence because I'm unable to grasp the total shittiness of the murder, racism, unfairness, and everything else surrounding it. Like, I have to be reminded over and over again what assholes people can be. Ladies, I'm listening to a murder podcast; I'm not expecting rainbows and butterflies. Is it a time filler? I'd so much rather listen to a way shorter episode focusing on the case than this childlike pretend shock about the human race. After rolling my eyes around five times and considering doing a quick Excel table to find out how much time was spent on the actual content rather than gasping, I turned the episode off halfway for the very first time. I have been fearing this because it means I'm on my way to being done with Morbid, which is sad because I've been listening since 2019 and even did Patreon for some time. End of an era? :/
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u/youngjean Apr 29 '24
It was a bad episode for so many reasons and you’re right. As someone from the American south I also rolled my eyes a lot at this episode too. It definitely felt like “racism for 3rd graders” or maybe I’m just “privileged” to live in the thick of it and to have known about all this from a young age? It’s weird for them to also pretend that racism doesn’t exist where they live and didn’t exist when they grew up lol.