Hey everyone, this is Nima Shirazi from Citations, needed. We have some exciting news for you.

We're actually going to be doing a live show in Brooklyn in the coming weeks.

It's going to be May 25th, Friday at roughly 8 o'clock. At Union Docks in Brooklyn, you can go to our Twitter or Facebook to find out a link to buy the tickets.

It's a benefit for court watch NYC, which is a collaborative project that has eyes and ears on accountability on NYC courtrooms collecting data to see what's actually happening and to capture the real narratives that that's not just the official accounts.

So we're excited to do a fundraiser for them, as well as do a live show, which we had people asked for.

You know, I'll be honest, it's not like a million people, but more than one has asked for a live show.

More than one person has asked for a live show. And that's how receptive we are to our wonderful listeners.

I will sort of apologize in advance for it being held in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which seems like the most boring place to hold a live show for a podcast.

Look, man, it is what it is, and I apologize.

But everyone should absolutely try and make it if you're sorry, we're not we're not those salt of the earth people and see caucus or I live at Chicago. I'm flying there. That's how much that's how much you care. That's how much you care.

But yeah, please visit Union Docks. That's you and I own docs D O C S dot org for tickets. You can, you know, just search on that page citations needed. It's again Friday, May 25th.

We're going to start at 8 p.m. And it's going to be a great time. We're going to talk about the racialization of crime of pop culture and courtroom drama.

So we're going to do that. We hope to see as many of your wonderful faces there as possible. And without further ado, here's the actual episode that you came to listen to.

This is citations needed with Neemah Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

Welcome to citations needed a podcast on the media power PR and the history of bullshit. I am Neemah Shirazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

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So today's topic is one that we've we've tangentially addressed but never really dug into on its own terms and I know that it's something we've struggled with a lot and had a frame.

How the news covers populations that we were sort of generally call oppressed or victimized. And that's the problem of the perfect victim.

As it relates to black lives matter and immigration. So we hear obviously in the press these kind of tropes over and over and over again often the same exact language used but when you hear of someone who let's say has been picked up by immigration agents if they are deemed worthy enough for sympathy will hear that oh well they you know got straight A's.

They were on their way to college that they entered the country through no fault of their own or in the case of a lot of black lives matter they were good father good citizen are kind of good faith attempts to humanize people can have the negative or unintended consequences of creating a tiered system of moral worth by establishing what we generally call the perfect victim.

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