Convicted rapist Brock Turner,his father, and Judge Aaron Persky if a Fisher Price-level lesson device for recognizing white privilege and rape cultureIf you are a person who …1. Cares at all approximately concepts like social justice, and racism,gender equality, feminism, or patriarchy,and privilegeHe knew what he was doing was wrong; he just attempted to spin it into less of a wrong after he got caughtI fully respected his right to a trial, but even after twelve jurors unanimously convicted him guilty of three felonies, and all he has admitted to doing is ingesting alcohol. Someone who cannot take full accountability for his actions does not deserve a mitigating sentence. It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of promiscuity. By definition rape is the absence of promiscuity,rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.
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Source: theguardian.com