Children and rich vans

The media seems to have regained its fascination with child abduction recently. I doubt the same attention would have been paid had the attempts at abduction taken place in somewhere like Maddington or Thornlie - it would have warranted a small mention in the news at most, where we could all reassure ourselves that were not as bad as those people in that part of town - instead of upper-middle-class Mindarie, where all the pedophiles have cushy bank jobs and don't have to drive around looking for kids in vans. Or so we thought, anyway. If you want to see how the media treats child victims of sexual assault who don't belong to affluent white families just look back at how the media approached the issues with the truck drivers abusing young aboriginal girls a couple of years ago - they spent more time talking about the truckers' families than the victims of their abuse.

It's not like there's any actual sympathy in the treatment of these cases, the media just milks all the drama they can from the initial shock and then tells you when to stop caring. But I feel that, by just referring to it as 'the media', I'm effectively blowing over the people who are encouraging this apathy, and they're too important not to warrant attention in and of themselves, but they're probably white, and they have more money than you. And while it's tempting to say that this sort of thing doesn't matter when you're talking about children, that's not true at all, because we're still being emotionally manipulated when we look at these news sources, and those are the factors they tap into to manipulate us. Until we step out of our comfort zone, so to speak, we're still speaking from a certain perspective, and when we do we're alone the last people who will help us will be the idiots telling us to worry about children.

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