Because you literally said that our system of justice wasn’t intended to be punitive, at least not in theory. I am literally saying you said things because you literally said them. The American criminal justice system is fully intended to be punitive. Key actors and decision-makers within the criminal justice system…

“It had been entirely misunderstood, and I had bigger fish to fry.”

Uhhh....okay, so now, having realized we can all read your words, you’re taking the tack of defending a statement that the sky isn’t blue?

This was an absolutely fantastic step-by-step dismantling of this disingenuous troll’s non-arguments and smouldering dumpster fire of logical fallacies and I only wish it weren’t buried so deep in this thread. Maybe if it were closer to the top less people with bother engaging with him.

So, you go out of your way to lecture people about not assuming what is in the mind of Brock Turner regarding remorse for his crime, etc., but then go on to criticize others by assuming what their understanding is of Turner’s dad’s statement.

The behavior of Turner’s defenders - his family and friends - in minimizing the impact of his actions on his victim. Everyone understood what Turner’s father was saying when he whined that his son was not able to eat steak anymore - that the trauma of a criminal trial had drained his appetite. It is still a…

Well you have admitted that you were responding to / criticizing something that Mr. Carr did not even say, and you also admit (in a reply to another comment) that you are not familiar with his work. It’s not always possible to understand a comedian’s approach on the basis of one single joke (or to even understand that…

Maybe Coulter is like a Horcrux for Schlafly.

“I read the entire thing, realized how obviously right it was and how I had no legitimate counter, and then feigned indifference and pretended I hadn’t read it. I’m totally going to pretend I’m not being completely transparent.”

The fact you may have been traumatized doesn’t mean you learned something.

I mean, that was a literal appeal to authority. You didn’t cite any of the sources, you didn’t state what program you learned it during (so there could be some understanding of the scope of your study), you didn’t name the person who told you (so there could be some understanding of that person’s positions)...you just…

It’s terrible to just not own up to mistakes and actually ACCEPT the crime. Brock commited an awful crime and lacks empathy, period. His father is in the same bucket. His letter just exposes what a fucking awful bunch the both of them are. The end.

That reply was respectful, well-researched, and clearly laid out and you're being disengenuous to pretend that they were being confrontational or unreasonable. This is what makes you look like a troll.

This is also an incredibly racist argument, though I don’t think the poster is doing that intentionally. But, a white man just happens to “feel” the consequences of his own actions more than black and brown offenders CURRENTLY SERVING LONG PRISON SENTENCES? You think 18 year old kids from Compton aren't scared of…

Here’s the thing—if I was jacking someone’s car and it exploded and hurt me badly (hypothetical), I deserve treatment for those wounds, but it would be absurd for my dad to come out and say, “listen, she feels horribly, she can’t even play the piano anymore because her fingers are bandaged and may never heal right.”…

No, it’s not fact. Going through a trial is insufficient to develop PTSD. If he stopped eating because of the trial, it is likely due to anxiety, depression, or even simply what we call a ‘situational crisis’ (when people are coping poorly due to an external stress, but don’t meet criteria for a mental disorder).

What part of “he served his time” “move on” do you not understand? He’s not complaining that there are protests, he’s complaining that people are complaining about a rapist getting three months in jail. If you don’t believe me, read his other comments, he is a sexist, he mocked an article as being “written by a woman”…

“Leave this guy alone” is stronger than opposing armed vigilantism. Brock Turner doesn’t deserve to be “left alone”; he deserves to be told that he’s a criminal and a bad person. Waving guns in front of his house isn’t a great way of doing that, and pointing that out isn’t rape apologia, but “just move on” absolutely…

You’re like every oblivious white dude who interrupts people’s accounts of being victimized or discriminated against to play “devil’s advocate.” We can smell your kind a mile away.

Article posted at 7:15 pm eastern time, it took the first rape apologist “he served his time” “leave poor Brocky alone” 53 minutes to post. What took you so long?