I think it might be because you were right, and yet automatically dismissed for speaking as “a total male.” Sometimes nuance gets an unfortunate reaction.
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I took that comment to mean that this guy’s lenient sentence will basically make other rapists more likely to think that they too would be punished lightly for their actions, if charged. But yeah, not at all well stated.
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I’m a little edgy with the recent influx of trolls of late…
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Right? Lots of new accounts, seems like BB got on someone’s Bro Radar.
Guess we just gotta keep a sharper lookout!
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Hey! I don’t think I ‘automatically dismissed’ @tropo. But if I did, welcome to the world where many women are automatically dismissed for having an opinion or speaking up. Ironic, huh?
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Plus some older ones that have been unused and all of a sudden…
That meerkat… so cute!
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Sorry, if “spoken as a total male” shouldn’t be read as dismissal, how should it be read?
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Awful.
On the other hand, these complaints are evidence that the punishment was at least in the ballpark of correct.
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As a flippant response, almost a joke - you did see the wink emoji immediately following those words, right? Which were then followed by a sincere question asking where such a line should be drawn, in order to figure out how my view is overly simplistic. Not a dismissal in my view.
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Good lord, so many levels of fail. I hardly know where to start…
How so? Merely because he was, after all, punished, instead of let off scott-free?
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20 minutes of action.
I guess its easy to see where the permissive attitude about sexual assault comes from.
Substitute the word ‘action’ for “torture”, ‘violation’ or “debasement”, and the description becomes more accurate, though the punishment is still far too lenient.
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Severe impact?
I would suggest that Turner’s penile or digital penetration of an unconscious woman was a “severe impact”.
Judge Persky to American people:
“Boys will be boys.”
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After reading that statement the only sympathy I feel is for the parents. It’s not like he was urinating in public when drunk or did a Chicago sunroof where there happened to be a kid in the back seat or anything like that.
[quote=dad]He has no prior criminal history and has never been violent to anyone including his actions on the night of Jan 17th 2015"
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Someone clearly has a different definition of violence.
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Somebody’s been watching Better Call Saul…
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Father of Brock Turner: “This is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”
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Does that mean that if the victim accidentally meets Brock Turner again, then kills him in less than 20 minutes, she should be found not guilty?
Because that’s the message that his father is giving.
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I was reading this and thinking it was a parody and then realised it was the actual statement. I guess it’s not hard to see where Brock developed some of his attitudes (as well as immersion in culture of course), but I can also see that he’s probably been talked into minimising his actions from his family (or as least from his dad) since the event. I hope he can really learn the impact of his actions and take responsibility, but in effect he would be going against the culture of his family if he did this.
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