I disagree. Someone can put lots of lovely (probably stolen) words down that I will buy into. But the pictures someone chooses to post? Those tell you so much. For instance, why would you post a picture of a motorcycle? Not you on a motorcycle, just a motorcycle. Or pictures of children? I’m not dating your toddler!…

Could be worse - it could be like how they did in Victorian times, where they ACTUALLY took pictures of the dead person. It’s super-creepy when you realize the chair the dead kid is sitting on is ITS MOTHER UNDER A SHEET.

It definitely doesn’t seem like my cup of tea, but losing a child is something so awful that I can’t bring myself to judge anything that might bring comfort.

And she put up a GoFundMe for her funeral... stating she was a single mother that couldn’t pay for the funeral. Despite being an active duty soldier (Service Group Life Insurance policy for dependents & kids-from her or the child’s father) & separated from her husband..

I also love the idea that rape cases always and entirely come down only to one person’s word against another’s. Nope, no other evidence of sexual assault could possibly exist! That’s why nobody is ever convicted of murder — if the alleged killer says he didn’t do it, we just let him go, because it’s just a “he said,…

The answer to your question is Title IX. The school had a duty to provide her assistance and investigate her claims. It failed.

“Hernandez stumbled back to the party and found her friends. When she told them what happened, they immediately took her to the hospital. Hernandez spoke to police, and her mother flew out the very next day.”

If I’m reading this correctly, the victim did go to the police. The rapist is serving 20 years for the conviction. Their completely valid suit against the university is that they refused counseling services to the victim (likely in hopes of shutting her up so their athletic program wouldn't get more bad press).…

Seems like the ‘discouraging students from coming forward’ has been pretty fucking advertent for awhile now.

Funny you should ask...

Even if a survivor chooses to speak or take other actions to support their healing, we must not publicly comment in a way that could compromise student confidentiality or inadvertently discourage future students from coming forward.

Otherwise, McCraw said, it would come down to a “he said-she said” situation, and the school could not act on it.

Thanks for your comment and I agree with what you are saying. As a German I can assure you that no-one has forgotten or wants to forget what happened 70 years ago (our 9th grade class trip was to a concentration camp - not an experience you quickly gloss over).

It’s incredible to me that Germany, which has opened its borders to refugees more than any other country (over 1 million in 2015 alone), is now being accused in comments here and elsewhere of fascist behavior simply because they a small rail company is introducing women-only compartments. Do people commenting here…

Maybe people are just tired of how things are supposed to work.

This is my entire problem with politics. And I think it is A LOT of peoples problem with politics. It is just a big bullshit game of, WELL IF THEY CAN BE TERRIBLE WE SHOULD TOO. Like yes, other people do really shitty unethical things that doesn’t mean it is okay. That doesn’t mean it is right and nothing will ever…

I hear a lot about ‘Bernie bros’ and how intolerant his supporters are but HOLY CRAP, I see so many people attacking his views and his supporters. This whole things is so gross.

I love you and your username.

I ACTUALLY READ THIS PIECE! It’s good. It taps into the process very well, and it specifically mentions the identity politicking we saw in 2008 against Obama—the same kind we’re seeing now.

Were there principled liberal days? I feel like us liberals gave up decades ago, and made the way for centrism that consistently cows to the demands of the increasingly-maddening right wing.