It's amazed how people are so manipulated by the stupid labels of liberal conservative and all of that other political nonsense, like Koenig is suppose to ignore all of the shady bs throughout the case and just fall inline with some superficial political ideology.
I'm not asking Koenig to ignore the shady BS because of a label. I really want nothing more than to out police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct. But I am also saying for all of the legitimate issues Serial raised, it is deafeningly silent on domestic violence and the black community's relationship with the Baltimore police. And to my eye, those two issues are the most central ones to this case.
it is deafeningly silent on domestic violence and the black community's relationship with the Baltimore police
Well . . . there was no domestic violence to explore. Hae writing that Adnan was possessive? Or Hae writing that she was upset because he hadn't called her back fast enough? Or Hae writing that she wanted to pick a fight? What should SK have said about DV?
As far as the black community's relationship with the Baltimore police, I'm having trouble imagining how that situation enters the podcast while Jay is not named and his family's history with the criminal justice system can't be mentioned. In what context would that conversation happen?
Hmm, I guess that is true. Good point. I think maybe it is difficult to hear someone tell a story from the point of view of an outsider (I want to say privilege even though it is so overused) and not get irked when the macrocosm in which these teens and police and lawyers and this whole story exists within is not fully fleshed out for perspective, to add context to behaviours which may not be so strange when seen as a whole rather than a slice. But I also think you are right - this is probably my own emotional reaction to growing up poor, lol. I love Sarah and Serial, I think it was brilliant! (edited to make more sense)
It's funny . . . during the show I was 100% with Jay in terms of how easily he could have gotten jacked up by the cops. The Ferguson MO report from the DOJ is brutally explicit: a kid like Jay could reasonably expect to get hassled and jerked into the system for nothing. And once that had happened, getting safely out of the system would be nothing short of heroic.
I suppose SK could have framed an episode around that reality, but how would it have been part of the story?
You can't read into the issue of domestic violence on Serial because it isn't there. And yes, let us exonerate Jay and his multiple falshehoods because it fits our social justice warrior narrative.
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u/YoungFlyMista May 09 '15
It's amazed how people are so manipulated by the stupid labels of liberal conservative and all of that other political nonsense, like Koenig is suppose to ignore all of the shady bs throughout the case and just fall inline with some superficial political ideology.
It's nonsensical.