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“Let he who has not drugged and raped scores of women cast the first stone.”
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Wow. I really didn’t expect this to end in prison time, to be completely honest. I figured things would drag on until he died anyway.
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I did; if only because he’s Black and mostly irrelevant as a public figure now.
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Not unlike OJ, but different outcomes.
I have a feeling if there was only one Cosby accuser, he wouldn’t have spent a single minute in a court room.
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Sadly, you are probably correct.
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No rapist should be released from prison before their victim is free from the trauma. And three or even ten years isn’t enough.
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I listened to Eddie, Bill, and Richard when growing up, three early heroes of mine.
This feels a bit like a funeral. It stings to see an admired person revealed to be a monster.
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He’s pretty damned old now. 3 years could be life. And I’m not complaining about it. Also, what vonbobo said. I had trouble putting that to words.
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For very thin values of “worked”.
Dozens of victims, decades of the crimes being an open secret, multiple failed attempts at prosecution and finally a three year sentence.
All in a country in which petty subsistence crime routinely draws multi-decade punishment, in a country where a woman is serving a five year sentence for the “crime” of attempting to vote.
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notice only court jesters get thrown under the bus
I’ve got a lovely painted stone I’ve been hanging onto for a special occasion, and a rapist actually doing time for his crime is very special.
The Jello pudding guy shall be known, henceforth, as Convicted Rapist Bill Cosby.
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For me it makes the fact that he’s getting punished at all even more of a vindication. Not only did he betray all those women, in a much smaller way he betrayed every one of us who looked up to him as a role model of what a man should be, and I have no qualms about being livid over both. That’s literally the kindest thing I can bring myself to say about him, and anything further would be getting into wishing there really was a hell.
Part of it is that when the first couple of accusations surfaced, I was skeptical. It was an object lesson in how foolish that was, and that was the last time I gave an accused rapist the benefit of the doubt.
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Agreed. Looking back, that family values bullshit appears to be a red flag. Today we see examples of extreme hypocrisy in the news every day.
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well, that’s what i mean. considering he’s such a high-profile man, a celebrity, it’s quite amazing the system worked at ALL. i think it’s quite a victory, and that people everywhere should be heartened and know that continuing to speak and push the truth can and does work. but sometimes it takes a LOT of people speaking up to get such a victory.
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Andrea Constand is a hero for testifying. I wish her peace & healing. Thanks, Rob, for posting her statement.
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