Seriously mate? wrote:
Beat me to it!
Bemis wrote:How'd she do the exam ?
Her final score was underwater.
Seriously mate? wrote:
Beat me to it!
Bemis wrote:How'd she do the exam ?
Her final score was underwater.
rojo wrote:
Most everyone is familiar with the outrage that erupted after a judge in California only sentenced Stanford student Brock Turner to six-months in jail for sexual assault.
Will there be even more outrage after a judge in Canada gave a woman who murdered her newborn before going to an exam just two years of probation?
In case you are wondering, this isn't a case about a late-term abortion. The baby was born healthy and drowned as detailed below.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-mother-who-drowned-newborn-son-at-home-before-taking-university-exam-gets-two-years-probation
I haven't sifted through the replies here but I wonder if any of you have had children. Postpartum depression is an aweful and very real thing. The hormones can do absolutely crazy things turning a very intelligent stable person to do something like this.
raperape wrote:
Unless you know something no one else does, the only thing that was 'recovered' was a group message in which someone (I don't even know if they proved it was Turner) sent a picture (picture was never recovered) and that someone in the group replied 'who's tit is that'
BTW, I'd hardly call the response 'blowing up'. You must be on the steady diet of the 'news' sites that constantly blows things out of proportion too if that's how you see it.
Who here is appalled by senseless murder? [Everyone raises their hands].
Who here is distressed to the point of writing an open letter by the fact that a rapist who sent a video of the rape to his friends sparked more outrage than a murder? [Rojo raises his hand.]
LOL, what are you talking about a video? Is this some new thing that surfaced? Or is it the same "let's turn this thing that's somewhere between a 3 and a gray area into a 10" mentality that Huffpo, Buzzfeed, Occupy Democrats, etc are trying to push into everyone's A holes?
Calm down. I think the poster mistakenly remembered the photo of the victim's breast, that Brock sent to his friends on GroupMe app. as video instead. That's not a "new thing" and was part of the trial.
If you're going to blow up on a comment without bothering to do any thinking or digging, the only stuff getting pushed up your a hole is by your own hand.
You're right, it's circumstantial because GroupMe apparently autodeleted the photo. So it is circumstantial that someone in Brock's GroupMe apparently responded to a photo of a woman's single breast ("WHOS TIT IS THAT") at the same time that Brock was [allegedly] assaulting the unconscious victim who was later found with a single breast exposed. We usually don't have perfect information in trials, so we piece together facts. Since no one in his GroupMe offered any other explanation, this seems like a pretty solid deduction.
And yes, "'let's turn this thing that's somewhere between a 3 and a gray area into a 10' mentality that Huffpo, Buzzfeed, Occupy Democrats, etc are trying to push into everyone's A holes?" is blowing up for a comment where the poster could have just tried to clarify. Instead they decided to degrade the conversation because it's easier (more fun?) to mock than bother to have a genuine conversation.
From the Farm wrote:
I haven't sifted through the replies here but I wonder if any of you have had children. Postpartum depression is an aweful and very real thing. The hormones can do absolutely crazy things turning a very intelligent stable person to do something like this.
Every time Rojo writes anything, not only do I cringe at his lack of incoherence and complete inability to clearly express himself, but I also start to wonder how he made it through an Ivy League university without developing anything resembling critical thinking skills.
The Brock Turner case took place during a time when sexual assaults on campus were in the spotlight. The outrage was from the feeling that campus jocks are above the law.
There are plenty of cases of lenient sentencing that doesn't cause outrage.
You admit the 'evidence' (I don't think it was ever technically evidence) is circumstantial, yet you think it is just fine to say
"...remembered the photo of the victim's breast, that Brock sent to his friends..."
Look, I'm no Brock supporter, I'm a follower of logic and reason. As far as I know circumstance doesn't typically convict. That's why it's between a 3 and a gray area. I don't believe the 'video' commentor needed to clarify what he meant - I believe that person actually thinks Turner sent a video of himself assaulting an unconscious girl to his friends. I believe this is due to him focusing only on news sources that twist, exaggerate, and lie about information to get clicks and ad revenue. 'video' poster is welcome to clarify, but I suspect this is a headline reader, not a fact reader.