Missing White Girls and Racist Shitheads

If you ever need a good barometric reading of how little our present society regards even the slightest hint of legitimate, productive discourse, just wait for a pretty white girl to get killed by a minority.

Assuming your name isn't Patrick and you aren't the neighbor of a sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea, I'm sure you're aware that a girl from Iowa named Mollie Tibbetts was killed by an undocumented immigrant not long ago. Her death is a tragedy, as are the deaths of those who are regularly murdered in similar fashion; but we can never seem to think of their names because they aren't small-town honkies from the Midwest. Missing white woman syndrome is a very real thing that illuminates a lot about the fabric of subtle, furtive racism that perpetuates virtually every aspect of our society, but I have no interest in bloviating about something I'm in no way qualified or informed enough to talk about right now.

Like just about anything else tragic in nature, the response from most of the carbon-based bipedals that have Facebook accounts and just mastered the art of reading two weeks ago has been utterly fucking repugnant. For the sake of brevity, I'll merely disseminate the ham-fisted ramblings of the average idiot that is exploiting the death of a young girl for their own gain.

I simply ran a search for “Mollie Tibbetts” on Facebook, and the first result was a post that was liked by a few people on my friends list. After five minutes of cursory research, I come to find out that it was written by a racist, deplorable piece of shit named Benny Arthur Johnson, who describes his worldview as “a mix between Ronald Reagan and Ronald Reagan.” Shoot me in the fucking head. Turns out he is a former hack editor for Buzzfeed that now writes for The Daily Caller, a racist, deplorable piece of shit conservative outlet founded by Tucker Carlson, a racist, deplorable piece of shit. It's a archetypal, faux-bleeding heart example of exactly what I want to talk about.

“I promised myself I would stay off of politics while on vacation. I’ll break that promise just once.”

Shut the fuck up.

“Mollie Tibbetts was an Iowan. She was raised not far from me. She went to the University of Iowa, just like me. Rooted for the Hawkeyes. She had hopes, dreams, a good upbringing & a loving family cheering for her future.

Then, in the most gruesome way possible, it all ended.”

Find out the rest on Thursday night's Law and Order. The deliberate structure of his post is clumsily tactical in the most elementary of senses. He establishes a non-existent emotional connection to the issue by noting that he and Mollie were raised in the same geographical proximity. You know, as if that has fuck-all to do with anything. He then acts like he was her childhood babysitter in speaking of all of the great things that she had to offer the world. I'm sure that's true, but Benny-boy sure does act like he's known who this girl is for longer than a week or two.

Writers like Benny and the overwhelming majority of screenwriters that pen empty, saccharine bullshit that inevitably rakes in 9 figures at the box office know how easy it is to emotionally manipulate the average person with horseshit like this. It's a clever sleight-of-hand move that starts with your average person reading a not-at-all fabricated/completely fictional story of a hero soldier performing some act of God and ends with them joining a group that lobbies against letting brown people vote.

“Mollie went for a run on one of those sleepy Iowa farm roads I grew up on.”

Hey, did you guys know that Benny and Mollie once lived in the same state yet?

“She was abducted, murdered & had her body dumped in a ditch by a monster who should have never been within a thousand miles of Mollie. This man had spent six years (!) in our country illegally being shielded, protected & humanized at every turn by the policies of national Democrats. He crossed our borders illegally and even though he does not share our culture, worldview or value system he was allowed to stay long enough to murder an American in the prime of her life & leave her body in the dirt for 34 days.”

Here's where it gets legitimately fucking interesting. I was surprised by the relatively subdued attention to detail with regards to the specificity of how she was killed. Usually right-leaning individuals that exploit tragedies for their own material advantage are hasty in describing every minor detail of the event to further sway the reader toward their inevitable ideological end. They usually milk the real saucy details before the grand reveal that it all happened because we need to stop treating foreign people like human beings. But no, he comes straight the fuck out and lays his thesis bare. Democratic policies personally coddled and protected this super villain from Otherland that doesn't share our culture, worldview, or value system. The idea that there is a shared, unwavering culture,worldview, or value system in this country is inherently antithetical to the mission statement of this country. Can't make this shit up.

“How is it possible that this horror can find its way to the peaceful farm communities of my upbringing?”

Hey, did you guys know that Benny and Mollie once lived in the same state yet? That political non-sequitur was just a slip-up, and he's really just lamenting the loss of an innocent young girl.

“It bears repeating: Democrats & open-borders advocates have the blood of Mollie Tibbetts on their hands. The disgraceful policies of sanctuary cities, catch-and-release & open borders have led to American bloodshed.”

...Or maybe not. Culpability for this entire fiasco is entirely on the dipshits that have the gall to think having a legitimate conversation about border policies without resorting to polar absolutes is a good idea.

“The murder marks the permanent separation of Mollie Tibbetts from her family. Where is her TIME magazine cover? Where is her CNN Townhall? Where is the national protests for Mollie Tibbetts? Where is the outrage White House press corps screaming for Trump to do something?
Silence.”

Appealing to emotion yet again before sneakily maligning the Black Lives Matter movement and other similar social justice movements that seek to have minorities and women treated like equal citizens.

The fact that Benny Arthur Johnson is an idiot of the highest order is an obvious fact to anybody that possesses a sound, rational ability to engage in discourse, regardless of one's ideological or political orientation. But the fact of the matter is that his incendiary, dangerous rhetoric is the lingua franca of most members of the populace. My curiosity regarding matters like this is less political more than it is epistemological. I've claimed many times before that the over-saturation of data and information in our day and age has analogous ties to the mere-exposure effect in that one views a headline coupled with a picture and jingoism that aligns with their crude, previously-held set of beliefs and is immediately taken as sacrosanct truth. Important personal positions regarding politics and social welfare aren't so much obtained through balanced conversation geared toward an ideal shared end as much as it is a war of all against all between individuals that will never change their mind and allow dialectical stalemate to remain the standard when it comes to global issues.

This has serious, material ramifications. So long as we continue to take our generally-held convictions as unassailable, divine truths, nothing will change. Profit-driven sociopaths on the Right will demonize dark people and uppity women for having the gall to speak out against being treated like animals, and the heart-in-the-right-place, head-up-their-ass Left will stage UFC fights about matters of identity politics while their own party is complicit in the death of millions in third-world countries right around the global block. We need to do better.

When all is said and done, an innocent young girl was murdered by a piece of shit that happened to be a human being. That is literally all that is relevant to anybody that isn't a member of the forces investigating the crime or Mollie's family. Take it from her cousin, who deserves nothing but the highest of props for publicly telling people like Benny to go get fucked.