1 million percent. There's a whole industry around shaming parents of kids who suffered high-profile tragedies and a consumer market to sell parents oftentimes useless stuff to prove they're better, safer, more aware parents

I think the bias well predates true crime, but I think true crime works REALLY well for audiences who think like this. You can tell when the producers or talking heads are playing into it, plus bystanders so frequently rely on it in their observations onscreen

One of my most unforgettable classroom experiences was AP Psych in junior year of high school, when our teacher did a just world fallacy experiment and I watched 75% of my classmates struggle to understand why their bias against the hypothetical woman was wrong

For some people, the logic of victim-blaming seeps into everything, no matter how cruel. And it's often clearly born out of a desire to say "This terrible tragedy was their own fault, which is why it could never happen to me"

Following to keep tabs on this 🫡

It’s very bizarre. It also goes to show how journalistic institutions base their own credibility threshold on law enforcement/legal norms. Since the latter distrusts victims of gender-based violence, so does the journalistic establishment, but when cops want to direct blame, the media goes along

The so-called TDS havers have only ever been proven right, and in fact the vast majority of people underestimate how bad the consequences of Trump’s power have been and will be.

I was speaking to a cybersecurity expert recently who said it blew her mind that Mark Cuban of all people endorsed AI and use of his likeness because Shark Tank AI is already constantly used to scam people and he made it even easier overnight with Sora. I think he might be a bad person!