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Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Judith Levine writes in Counterpunch:
If it’s true that all seven of the football players arrested for hazing in the Sayreville, New Jersey, War Memorial High School locker room are students of color, that is one more reason not to prosecute them as sexual felons.
I don’t mean not to prosecute them in adult court. I mean not to prosecute them at all.
If they’re guilty, they should be disciplined by the school, kicked off the Bombers team, and held accountable to their victims by making amends in words and deeds.
But the punishment the state will mete out far outweighs the transgression. For kids who are 15 to 17 years old, it will be life crushing.
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Now we find that a disproportionate number of the people on the registries are also African-American. This is surprising only because the popular image of the sexual “predator” is a “pedophile,” and the pedophile is white.In fact, whites represent two-thirds of registered offenders—the unique criminal category in which whites show up in proportion to their demographics in the general population. But on the public registries, “blacks appear to be over-represented,” according to an ongoing analysis by University of Washington criminologist Alissa Ackerman and colleagues of over 445,000 sex offenders on public registries in 2010.
Nationally, African-Americans comprised 22 percent of the Ackerman sample, compared with only 13 percent of the U.S. population. Among the states with the greatest mismatch was New Jersey.
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The age of the greatest number of people involved in the criminal justice system for sex offenses is 14. Thank age-of-consent laws for that. Because the laws deem minors categorically incapable of consenting to sex, any sexual contact with a minor is considered an assault. Indeed, if the victim is a minor, sexual assault becomes “aggravated” sexual assault. Aggravated does not mean more sadistic or lengthy. It can just mean the “victim” of a touch or chat room conversation was 13.Fourteen is also the age at which the federal government requires committers of certain sex crimes to be listed on the Internet registries.
And in a nation already overflowing with prisoners both juvenile and adult, the vast majority of them black and brown, do we need to lock up more black and brown kids?
So weird how proggies do this. “Such-and-such a law is unfair, so do not enforce it — in this one particular case, in which I hope to whip up emotional agitation with my prose.” If a law is unjust, how do we go about any hopeful process of reform, that begins with class-based selective exemption from the unjust law? That’s the one question they’re never able to answer.
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By that logic, shouldn’t we refuse to prosecute any more white pedophiles? After all, “whites represent two-thirds of registered offenders.” Shouldn’t we, you know, let the kiddy fiddlers off for a few years, just to even up the balance sheet?
[I feel sick even typing that, but seriously — isn’t this where all this proportional-to-the-population stuff logically leads? And given this idiot’s snide remark about “Thank age-of-consent laws for that,” I’m betting the only reason pedophilia isn’t an SJW cause du jour is because most perps are white].
- Severian | 01/06/2015 @ 11:41What about “white collar crime?” How about fraud, embezzlement, insider trading? Whites are clearly overrepresented in these matters. The laws must be changed and a new protected class formed to right this wrong.
- Open other end | 01/07/2015 @ 14:56