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by threeseed 2118 days ago
I live in Melbourne and her arrest is widely supported. Our city is in a severe lockdown and at a tipping point between New Zealand style suppression and US style chaos.

Just because she is a white, pregnant woman does not mean that she has the right to break the law and compromise the safety of the community.
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stagehn 2118 days ago
What does her being white have to do with anything and why would you even bring up her race?
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rbg246 2118 days ago
Because the reaction to her arrest is a good example of white lady in distress.

Whether you agree or disagree with her arrest and release like two hours after this sort of stuff happens all the time with police but it's a big deal if it's a white lady.

Just for the record im not sure I agree with her arrest but you know... Bigger things to worry about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

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stagehn 2118 days ago
Is "wide support" of her arrest (as framed by the person I was replying to) an example of white lady in distress? That seems like the exact opposite of white lady in distress. Or is the single person who thought the arrest was unjust (further up) an example of white lady in distress?

None of this fits the white lady in distress definition. It just seems like a way to smuggle in anti-white racism for no particular reason. Nothing about this situation has to do with race in any way whatsoever.

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rbg246 2118 days ago
The fact that he was replying to a comment that used it as an example of Australia's 'authoritarian' response to covid and the fact that it received widespread news coverage and we all got to see her distress Vs the other guy who got arrested and received zero coverage for the same crime seems to suggest that this it is relevant and on the balance of probabilities a good example of white lady in distress.
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stagehn 2118 days ago
He didn't use the 'authoritarian' framing (he sarcastically questioned whether it was 'exemplary'), that's something you're presumptively attributing.

There was not 'zero' coverage of the guy's arrest, to the contrary there was wide coverage as a Google search easily reveals. There's also two factors you're not considering, (1) the guy ran a conspiracy theory group which reduces sympathy for him, (2) the woman's arrest came first so it was more novel and thus more engaging from a clicks perspective.

It's absurd that race is being brought into this as a relevant explanatory dimension. Pernicious and divisive to say the least, leaving aside the fact that there's no evidence that race is in any way relevant to either what occurred in this case or the coverage of the case

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rbg246 2118 days ago
Look it's all subjective but their comments were hardly pernicious and divisive - they were a fair observation of the situation.
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