Describing an 18 year old as a “teen” certainly is a choice. And not one commonly made when the person accused of a crime is black.
The media seems to have no standard on using terms and switches them willy-nilly to net the better headline.
It’s not switched willy-nilly though, it’s strongly correlated with race. The “better headline” is “dangerous black perpetrator prone to crime” and “foolish white boy that looks like you and just made a mistake of youth”. Appealing to the racism is what makes the headline “better” (i.e., more affirming to the majority readership).
An 18-year-old is a teenager. Your brain doesn’t stop developing until mid 20s.
Yes, teen is literally in the word, but you know that the implication is not “an adult legally responsible for their actions” and the choice of how to describe an alleged criminal is not applied similarly to white and black subjects. A 15 year old black boy will be described as a “black male” while a legally adult white man will be a “teen” until the day of their 20th birthday.
“My assumptions are universal assumptions” is one of the many things here I wish we could have left to fester on reddit.
That does not matter, by law, he is an adult. The term “teen” is used when under 18 in the news. This is clear bias because of his race.
MAGA is a cult and a terrorist group.
A teen who understood what Trump meant by “fair” elections
Preview of Tuesday.
Vote early if you can.
Each and everyone one of these people deserves the bed they shit in.
