Not that we shouldn’t jail them, necessarily, but the restorative justice movement must include violent offenders and violent crimes or it simply cannot work.

Of the total population of prisoners in the US right now, 8% are non-violent drug users who weren't dealing. 54% are violent non-drug offenders, including rapists and murderers. Any real plan for reducing mass incarceration has to go beyond non-violent drug offenders.

Putting the death penalty on the table as a punishment for rape, in addition to being indefensible because capital punishment is morally repugnant, is counterproductive.

I do so love when Jezebel becomes a parody of itself.

You’re pain is valid. This crime is horrific.

Excellent and informative article.

The following paragraph immediately precedes the paragraph I quoted.

From Bossypants by Tina Fey

Correct. That’s why it’s good that they start paying for shit, and I’m all for requiring that they start paying for shit. But if you were expecting something for free, and then you’re charged for it, it’s human nature to be annoyed at that upending of your expectations, whether or not you were morally justified in not…

Are centuries of gross injustice more preferable to you than a generation of minor injustices?

I’m done. Murder is always the murderer’s fault. There are no “but I felt really bad because I couldn’t find a girl to like me” mitigating circumstances.

Yes. While I do normally subscribe to the Kantian “a person is not a means to an end, only an end in themselves”, I don’t believe that that applies to all means and all ends. Sometimes, a small amount of personal sacrifice (in this case a SWM accepting a small injustice) is necessary to serve a greater goal (equality…

tl;dr Straight white men objectively face individual small hardships for being straight, white, and male. I think we, as the activist/progressive movement, should be able to acknowledge those hardships’ existence at the same time as we recognize that they must happen to serve the goal of greater justice.

To be fair, 400 individuals and organizations are protesting this proposal, not just celebrities.

Ok. But doesn’t “one strike and you’re out” incentivize rapid escalation? If all abuse has the same punishment, what stops a violent offender from killing their victim after the abuse, to lower their chances of being caught?

I’ll just say it. Men dressing like slobs at red carpet events is rude to the women present. First of all, as a man, I’m embarrassed on behalf of my gender. Second, it’s ridiculous that women are required to dress to the nines and bring their A-Game EVERY SINGLE TIME, or be thrown to the harpies of the gossip press.

Hi. We’ve interacted a couple of times, but I just comment stalked you and wanted you to know that I officially think we should be best friends. Toodles!

There’s actually another I forgot as well, which is isolation of dangerous populations.

I have a two-stage alarm routine.

First of all, in the case of public universities, the university is state actor. They are not separate entities. In many cases private universities are also held to be state actors, though that situation is more murky.