Guess Why Scientians Say Americans Don't Want Griner Back?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientific-reason-why-americans-dont-145431580.html

Some Americans are rooting against Brittney Griner's return home to the United States.

The WNBA superstar was arrested in February after customs agents at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport said they found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. She was found guilty of drug smuggling in early August and sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison.

Given the timing of her detainment, the nature of her alleged offense, and the reputation of Russian courts, Griner is widely considered to be a political pawn that Moscow is using as leverage against the United States. As such, the State Department classified Griner as wrongfully detained in May.

Even despite the "strong signal that the US government does not believe that there is a legitimate case against her," as an expert previously told Insider, many of the two-time Olympic gold medalist's compatriots are opposed to the Biden administration's efforts to secure her freedom through negotiating a prisoner exchange with the Kremlin.

And there could be a scientific explanation to why they've sided with a foreign adversary instead of supporting their fellow American.

Dani Gilbert, an expert on hostage taking and recovery and a Rosenwald Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security at Dartmouth College's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, told Insider that her research suggests that "how someone came to be in need of assistance affects whether or not the public thinks that person should receive it."

This phenomenon, she said, is called the "deservingness heuristic."

Gilbert further explained that personal characteristics could have an effect on the way the public regards Griner's situation: Though "gender tends to be less influential in how the American public and how the media care about, sympathize with, pay attention to Americans who are held hostage abroad" than some other factors, "race is a huge deal here."

This concept is aptly called "the missing white woman syndrome," Gilbert said.

"A white girl or a white woman who is taken captive or arrested or something like that elicits tons of sympathy from the American public in a way that women and girls of color do not," she explained. Gilbert believed that the fact that Griner is Black "could be a huge part of the lack of attention to her case."

"And then there are other demographic characteristics, including the fact that she is openly gay, that she is gender nonconforming, not traditionally feminine — all of these work against public sympathy for someone in her position," Gilbert added.

Science! really is something, isn't it?

And Scientians wonder why so many people don't believe in their dogma.

While the above "scientific explanation" is just typical anti-white rhetoric, lets analyze it rationally.

This idea that Russians "said" they found drugs is absolutely silly. It was on video. From what I know, she didn't even deny it, she just claimed that she had a medical card. Most people understand that if you try to smuggle illegal contraband into a foreign country, that there are consequences. There are people of all nationalities all over the world who are sitting in jails for the same reason. Why aren't they "wrongfully detained"?

Griner has been openly racist (anti-white) and publicly expressed anti-American sentiments. Most normal Americans don't like racists and people who hate America. That's pretty self-explanatory. Scientians call that "deservingness heuristic," normal people call it "common sense."

And, of course, the Scientians can't have a theory without somehow expressing their anti-white hatred. So, when a black person gets caught doing something, it's not because they don't have any agency. It's because white people used black people to pick cotton in the 1700s. But if they want to play the, "ohhhh, if it was a white person who got caught smuggling drugs she would already be home" card, consider this: how many Americans that have been convicted of smuggling drugs into foreign countries are white? Furthermore, what if Griner was a white supremacist? Would anyone want to bring her home, or would she be considered "wrongfully detained?" What if she was a diehard MAGA supporter? Would we even be having this conversation?

The fact of the matter is that she broke the law and got caught. It takes a pretty dumb person to smuggle drugs into a foreign country. Most people recognize that and just don't have much sympathy for it. Not too mention that one of the primary tenets of Scientians is #gayblackprivilege, which normal Americans don't believe in.