The media is in a frenzy over the story of Penn State “frat bros” allegedly running a massive drug-dealing operation on campus.
There’s a reason why: the accused are rich, privileged white kids.
That’s the hook. That’s the outrage. That’s what makes this a national story. It allows the media to continue it quest to hammer away at “white privilege.”
But where is that same media outrage when young people are running prolific drug operations every day in cities across America? Kids are dying in the streets. Gangs battle over drugs, money, and territory. Families and neighborhoods are destroyed. Most of it barely registers with the national media.
Yes, this Penn State case is stunning.
More than a dozen fraternity members are accused of being involved in what prosecutors describe as a huge drug operation. Trips to New York to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine. The ring leaders apparently forced pledges to cut and bag the blow and sell it right out of the fraternity house.
If the allegations are true, these students deserve the consequences. Their privilege shouldn’t protect them. But neither should the media pretend this kind of drug dealing suddenly matters because the accused are rich and white.
On Stinchfield, we expose the double standard and ask why America seems more shocked by who is dealing the drugs than by the devastation the drug trade is causing every single day.
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