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• Friday, October 30, 2009 05:15 PM

  perplexed and a taste of things to come

  I am a little perplexed by this "rape".

  I would be totally opposed to it and would never violate someone this way. But I can't help thinking that the perpetrators are people of color and thus are basically socioeconomic victims of society. Does it make sense to victimize them further by putting them in jail?

  Also some of the perpetrators are apparently Hispanic. As part of their "macho" culture, violence against womena and sexual aggression are standard. As Hispanics become more and more of the country, I would expect that eventually laws against rape would be weakened either explicitly or through jury nullification. So this is what we all are in for.

  As for the "she should have been careful". By doing what exactly? Even if she hadn't drunk anything, she still very well may have been raped. People say that because they want to believe that "it wouldn't have happened to me, because I'm smarter, less slutty, etc. etc." It's not true, but it makes them feel better.

  It's a different America today, and the chivalry and respect of yesteryear are gone (along of course with racist/sexist patriarchal oppression system (for the most part)).

  I fear for my daughters. I think we're in for a clockwork Orange type of future.

  —kenberthiaume Read kenberthiaume's other letters
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