Don’t know, I notice that almost everyone you ever hear die in the newspaper was “a very beautiful/warm-hearted/amazing and funny individual who had no greater joy than putting a smile on other people’s faces and making them laugh” and that the world is a “much sadder and emptier place without their special soul”…
That’s just called being nice to the dead by the living. No inherent racism, sorry, and please stop looking for it — it’s just one more thing that trivialises a truly tragic situation, when you get people who feel marginalised because of a part of their identity seek out hints of an -ism with a magnifying glass in every story. Which ultimately only leads everybody else to confirm their suspicion that certian groups are far more concerned with finding more reasons to justify their self-victimisation than they are with the plight of the actual person (who died).
