Think about how much public sentiment hinges entirely upon the skin color of the person holding the camera. If the girl is threatening an aggressive white male immigrant with an axe, then she's a feminist hero. But if the camera man is brown? Then she immediately becomes a xenophobic racist far-right white supremacist neo-nazi oppressor.
Worse yet: imagine how many people are capable of completely reversing their sentiment, one way or the other, based on the revelation of the cameraman's race. For a huge swath of the population, skin color is the only "context" required to establish innocence and guilt. I've personally seen this switch in action. It's terrifyingly common.
Think about how much public sentiment hinges entirely upon the skin color of the person holding the camera. If the girl is threatening an aggressive white male immigrant with an axe, then she's a feminist hero. But if the camera man is brown? Then she immediately becomes a xenophobic racist far-right white supremacist neo-nazi oppressor.
Worse yet: imagine how many people are capable of completely reversing their sentiment, one way or the other, based on the revelation of the cameraman's race. For a huge swath of the population, skin color is the only "context" required to establish innocence and guilt. I've personally seen this switch in action. It's terrifyingly common.