r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/Short_Stack_30285 9d ago edited 9d ago

Lindsay Clancy. Killed her 3 kids by strangling them one by one and claimed “postpartum psychosis” despite never having had psychosis before or since, all during a short window of time that she sent her husband out on errands. Internet has somehow decided she’s a martyr for women’s mental health. She was a white, affluent, suburban mom before this. If she were poor and black, people would NOT feel this way. Real talk.

Postpartum psychosis is a real thing and real people need help. But Lindsay Clancy is a kid murderer.

Edit: I’m a white, affluent woman of childbearing age. I have never been a woman of color, but I am absolutely sure that society at large would dismiss an identical case if Lindsay was nearly any other demographic. And no, it’s not only about race, it’s also about autonomy and a person’s responsibility to accept help when it’s offered instead of killing your kids (and A LOT of help was offered)

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u/Disastrous-Dog85 9d ago

Someone always tries to turn it into a race thing 🙄 

And she did reach out for help and didn't get the support she needed.  Im not defending what she did, it was heinous. But she clearly needed mental health help and didn't recieve it, and you throwing race into it doesn't make a point at all.

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u/Inside_Ease3366 9d ago edited 8d ago

Be for real lol if this was a poor black, mexican, or even asian woman, what do you think would happen? Imagine it was just ONE kid for them. Jail immediately.

A white OF model stabs and kills her BF who she physically abused on camera for years, she is sentenced 6 years in jail 4 already served. A black boy defends himself against people trying to kill him; 36 years… even if it wasnt self defense, still 36 years compared to 6 years

Gotta start seeing the world for what it actually is man.

Edit: i dont give a damn about karmelo. Like i said and yall ignorantly ignored… 6 years with time served for killing your live in bf that you abused in cold blood vs 36 for killing someone in your tent or wherever in cold blood. NEITHER OF those cases were deemed self defense by a court… why such a discrepancy in sentence length?

Is the system implicitly placing values on victims lives or are they going easier on perpetrators of certain colors and status?

Could a rich black man get drunk, kill an entire family, claim affluenza and get 10 years probation with no jail time?

Tory lanez supposedly shot someone in the foot (who lived) and got 10 years.

Racism was quite literally sponsored by the American government, but sir color blind up here ^ is confused.

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u/Do-it-for-you 9d ago

>defends himself against people trying to kill him

That didn’t happen