Wow. The statistics are outrageous! Where is the public discourse on this? Where is the media coverage? Why the seeming “silence”?
Outrageous stats indeed! I just did a google search of a random sampling of the Indian girls on the list you posted and none of them had any mainstream media (MSM) coverage, other than being on lists. There was one Indian girl listed as White and one older White woman who didn’t have any coverage.
All three White girls on the list had MSM articles about them. I think this paragraph from one of the links I posted says it best:
Why these cases are being underreported, and even ignored.
katiecouric.com
So why haven’t these women been found yet? It has to do with a number of factors, but the most obvious may be
the sheer lack of media coverage paid to women of color, in comparison to white women and men. In Wyoming, where Petito’s body was found, only
18 percent of indigenous female homicide victims get coverage, compared with 51 percent for white female and male victims.
This is also known as “missing white woman syndrome,” a term coined by the late PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill, to refer to the obsession with missing or endangered white women.
BBM
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This Wikipedia article contains an interesting chart comparing media coverage not received by missing people of color (POC) with well-known white women and children missing during the same time period. It also discusses reasons for “missing white woman syndrome,”
en.wikipedia.org
American news anchor
Gwen Ifill is widely considered the originator of the phrase.
[6]Charlton McIlwain defined the syndrome as "white women occupying a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting", and
posited that missing white woman syndrome functions as a type of racial hierarchy in the cultural imagery of the U.S.[9]Eduardo Bonilla-Silva categorized the racial component of missing white woman syndrome as
a "form of racial grammar, through which white supremacy is normalized by implicit, or even invisible standards".[1]
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Although we do see more attention paid on Websleuths to missing and murdered white women and children, at least there are threads for people of color. And some do attract MSM attention for various reasons. But since we are limited to using mainstream media sources, we run into the brick wall of poor media coverage for women and children who do not fit the media’s preferred profile. So the threads either run out of steam or occasionally become contentious and end up having to be shut down. So we tread lightly when addressing the topic of race. I decided to go out on a limb here because the original list you posted was such a good illustration of this issue.
JMO
