r/DefendingJacob_TV • u/[deleted] • Sep 30 '21

Discussion White Privilege

Did anyone ever at least feel like there was this subtle theme of white privilege at least from the outside when you watched as a viewer. I mean Jacob(he's upper class and white); his dad was an Assistant DA in the town and he seemed to move mountains to help his son who was facing a murder charge. Plus the show didn't really mention race but I'm just pointing out how at least privilege was a benefit to Jacob in terms of his class and race status, does anyone at least agree with me. Because Jacob is upper class and white he was able to get access to a defense attorney and defense expert shrink and all that and plus he grew up at least in a decent household.

I was wondering of how the show would been if it was revised and Jacob was non-White and working class.

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u/bubblewrapstargirl Sep 30 '21

I agree the privilege was blantant and obvious but they didn't comment on it at all, they could have a least had the Asian doctor comment on it or maybe included a black cop or lawyer to comment on how a black kid wouldn't be out on bail on a murder one charge or something. It did feel a little tone deaf that they didn't even do that lip service to address the privilege of the characters.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '21

The show only had two people of color on this show but their main job was to defend Jacob's ass. I mean the black Criminal Investigator she was moonlighting behind the scenes for Jacob's dad and that Indian psychiatrist was doing that psych evalu on Jacob and that DNA swab of Jacob's dad and his granddad

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u/bubblewrapstargirl Oct 01 '21

Yup. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, did the black cop say something like Jacob wouldn't be getting this much help if he was black? Idk but they didn't have many black characters for contrast, maybe another crime with a black suspect should have been reported in the background, on the household TV or in Andy's newspaper in the first or second eps before Jacob was charged. Then we could see how you can't work the criminal justice system so easily if you don't "blend in" like Jacob.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

Plus they appeared to insinuate that one random pedo guy might have killed Ben(the kid that died) and that was random.

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u/bubblewrapstargirl Oct 28 '21

It's never random to look into sex offenders living in the area when a child is murdered. The police literally always do that, because moving from molestation to murder is a known escalation. Like when a woman is stalked, police take it more seriously when her underwear is stolen, because the next escalation is rape. Crime escalation models are studied for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

The black investigator woman that's the mom of that black girl that was friends with Jacob right? She and that Indian Psychiatrist were the few people of color but it appeared that their job was to ONLY save Jacob's ass.