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How has Lindsay Clancy become a more compelling victim than her three children who she brutally killed?

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Outside Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts this week, Americans are witnessing something resembling a mass psychosis event.

Hundreds of women have assembled to support Lindsay Clancy, the mother on trial for murdering her three young children.

Clancy does not deny killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan with her own hands.

Her defense argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore cannot be held criminally responsible.

The women outside the courthouse, holding babies while cheering for Clancy, have no such excuse.

Unless, that is, we want to talk about what social media has done to women’s ability to process tragedy, assign responsibility and distinguish between victim and perpetrator.

Imagine the conversation at home as Mom puts on pink and heads off to spend the day with hundreds of other women cheering as members of Clancy’s defense team drive past.

“Mom, who’s the woman you’re making heart hands at?”

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“A woman who strangled her three children!”

For the families of these women, alarm bells should be........

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