Why is a certain "profile" of perp recast as the victim time and time again.
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Jennifer Taub
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Mar 17, 2021
Why is a certain "profile" of perp recast as the victim time and time again.
Correspondingly, why is a certain "profile" of victim recast as villain, as in they are "not innocent" time and time again?
Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
"It was a really bad day for him and this is what he did..." is a strange way for the Cherokee County Sheriff to describe the Atlanta gunman's murder spree. #gapol
Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
For example . . . .
Jane Coaston
@janecoaston
“Either way, it was not my fault, it was the fault of these terrible women, who I murdered, but again, not my fault”
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I mean you can't put up 200 plus years of chattel slavery, then another 200 plus years of institutional discrimination and the concerted effort to prevent people with a certain skin color from establishing wealth structures, pride in their identity, and full belonging to society. I mean that is just excuses...right!?! 
But you know, some guy availing himself of services for sexual gratification, then actually blaming the victims he murdered for making him feel bad about it, you know, poor guy. How did he survive in such a cruel oppressive world?
We all face adversities in life and many of us have disadvantages and certain privileges. As many others here have said well already, the problem that is well illustrated is that this guy has the sympathy of law enforcement after engaging in a cruel and heinous act. They can bring themselves to recognize struggles within this guy, but when there is a Black person, who is brutalized and killed for committing some petty crime, or no crime at all, the portrayal is much different, and there is no sympathy, like the Black person had it coming.
