{"id":2658395,"date":"2026-09-11T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/applause-erupts-as-oprah-guest-says-black-moms-who-kill-their-kids-should-get-compassion-like-lindsay-clancy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:46:12","slug":"applause-erupts-as-oprah-guest-says-black-moms-who-kill-their-kids-should-get-compassion-like-lindsay-clancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/applause-erupts-as-oprah-guest-says-black-moms-who-kill-their-kids-should-get-compassion-like-lindsay-clancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Applause Erupts as Oprah Guest Says Black Moms Who Kill Their Kids Should Get Compassion Like Lindsay Clancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapplause-erupts-as-oprah-guest-says-black-moms-who-kill-their-kids-should-get-compassion-like-lindsay-clancy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2658395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses the controversial case of Lindsay Clancy, who murdered her three children in duxbury, Massachusetts. Her trial ended with a hung jury due to differing opinions on whether she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, influenced by Massachusetts\u2019 lenient insanity plea laws. Some jurors and commentary. suggest that her mental state should exempt her from guilt, while others criticize the sympathy extended to her, especially when it involves racial commentary and intersectional arguments. Dr.Kameelah Phillips, appearing on Oprah\u2019s podcast, argued that support for mothers who commit such acts should be intersectional, regardless of race or background. This viewpoint has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-commentator-calls-caitlin-clark-a-villain-seconds-after-she-wins-best-wnba-player-award\/\" title=\"ESPN Commentator Calls Caitlin Clark a &#039;Villain&#039; Seconds After She Wins &#039;Best WNBA Player&#039; Award\">sparked social media backlash<\/a>, with critics condemning the notion that certain groups deserve more empathy or leniency for killing their children. the discussion highlights the political and cultural tensions surrounding accountability, mental health, and social justice in high-profile cases involving family violence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that killing your children gets you the love and respect of an entire corner of the internet. It\u2019s worse when that leads to a guest on Oprah Winfrey\u2019s podcast lecturing us about having that love and respect for non-white child killers, too.<\/p>\n<p>As you probably know if you\u2019ve tuned into even a sliver of the news over the past week, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended last Friday with a hung jury and the judge declaring a mistrial.<\/p>\n<p>The jury was voting 11-1 to acquit Clancy on murder charges for killing her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January of 2023. There was no debate over whether she did it, merely over whether or not she was suffering from an episode of postpartum psychosis when she did it.<\/p>\n<p>The general consensus was that the jurors reached their decisions \u2014 and could not come to a consensus \u2014 based on Massachusetts\u2019 liberal insanity plea statute, which places the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/massachusetts-inverted-burden-proof-standard-made-lindsay-clancy-guilty-verdict-incredibly-hard-deliver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burden of proof on the prosecution<\/a>. But, no: It turns out that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-lindsay-clancy-jurors-accidentally-admit-made-decision-based-wrong-criteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from interviews<\/a>, the Clancy jurors in her corner were working off the same warped logic the dimmer corners of TikTok and Instagram were buying into.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kellie Farina: \u201ci believe in the jury system. I believe Lindsay was wronged by the medical system.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVerSEiEUA\">pic.twitter.com\/xVerSEiEUA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsay \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@TheLinzerShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheLinzerShow\/status\/2097839759938781624?\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Female Clancy jurors gush over defense attorney Kevin Reddington as \u201cfunny\u201d and \u201centertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis compassion towards Lindsay was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had roughly zero chance with these women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XRSnv5wvDS\">pic.twitter.com\/XRSnv5wvDS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/2097458062223118726?\">September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s dumb enough, but now we have a whole cottage industry of Lindsay Clancy grievance studies, including grifters who want to remind us that we shouldn\u2019t just be empathizing with white child-killers.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, I present you Dr. Kameelah Phillips. She was one of the people who appeared on an episode of Oprah Winfrey\u2019s podcast about Clancy and postpartum psychosis, which you\u2019ll not be surprised to learn was heavily slanted toward Clancy sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dr. Phillips wanted us to know that if your sympathy for child-killing isn\u2019t intersectional, it\u2019s not sympathy for child-killing at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us to have the same passion for people who don\u2019t look like Lindsay, who don\u2019t have her same access,\u201d she said toward the end of the episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer education, her melanin, her privilege. There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for the same thing we\u2019ve never heard of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>And this got applause:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >black female child murderers<\/a> need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don\u2019t look like\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VbaQfq9BYi\">pic.twitter.com\/VbaQfq9BYi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/2098148605039395312?\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It also got the kind of reaction it should have gotten when it hit social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just a slight push back. I\u2019d suggest that all women, regardless of the color of their skin, should go to jail for the rest of their lives if they strangle their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Hockel (@BowieTheus) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BowieTheus\/status\/2098165080756297765?\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And say this with a straight face and applause? Seriously, i think this is pure lunacy<br \/> .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sunny7878 (@keys8ate) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/keys8ate\/status\/2098248724472627256?\">September 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd10 New level unlocked.<br \/> We\u2019re doomed. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BM2ReKZUls\">pic.twitter.com\/BM2ReKZUls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr. Virus \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@a_artnez5) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/a_artnez5\/status\/2098170129255166106?\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the worst part of the Clancy case that doesn\u2019t involve the killing of the children itself: It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsay-clancy-inspired-murder-hours-boy-2-found-hanging-rafter-mom-discussing-clancy-online-court-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">normalized killing born children<\/a> the same way as killing the unborn. And not only that, but we have to add a bit of wokeness to it. 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