Yeah. I have my moments with wanting the death penalty enforced on some people who are obviously, slam-dunk “guilty”. Unfortunately, though, the system cannot have two levels of guilt: “super guilty” and “regular guilty”. If we kept the death penalty around for the slam-dunk cases like that of Roof, it leaves the more…

Agreed. I am extremely anti-death penalty, but I am not going to tell those families whose loved ones were executed with all certainty by Roof that they have no right to their feeling. Just like this is not the case to be buttonholing candidates on, since even those who are consistently opposed to the death penalty…

Yup. I’m thoroughly anti-death penalty, but there’s absolutely no satisfaction to be found in discussing why the grieving families are wrong to support capital punishment or why it’s a good thing that our justice system is set up so that theoretically-disinterested parties get to decide what constitutes fair…

Do you also support the state-sanctioned murder of innocent men and women? Because absent a perfect, infallible justice system, if you allow for the Roofs of the world to be executed by the state, then you have no way to prevent the Willinghams. Maybe the state shouldn’t be in the killing game.

While I cannot imagine what these families are going through and no one should ever be in their position (nor do I think a journalist should approach them to ask for their comments on this issue) - that sounds more like vengeance than closure.

I really hate to be that person but I really don’t think he would have pulled that with a man...

He CAN’T handcuff her! There is a process for contempt of court; he didn’t even charge her with contempt of court. He made her sit in the corner like a fucking toddler in time out. There is no reason why this should have happened.

It’s possible, but we would need the full transcript to verify. What if he told her to be quiet and wouldn’t even let her make an argument/do her job? Also, him calling her by her first name instead of “Counselor” is a huge red flag.

“But” That little word that means I don’t believe ANYTHING I said before it.

It’s like he’s a bad person and his eyes are trying to get away.

I am 92% positive these are the same person.

Oh, didn’t you know? As soon as you say you’ve been raped veryone starts throwing money at you and praising you - not dragging your name and reputation through the mud, examining every tiny move you’ve ever made, and calling you a lying slut. I don’t know what alternative world he’s living in, but I’d really like to…

Always useful when a predator reveals his criteria for potential victims (women with “lifestyles,” meaning they’re black or poor). He’s too much of an ignorant, spoiled little shit to see how obvious his guilt is to everyone else.

Why the fuck are they even interviewing him?

“Who are you talking to?” and older woman’s voice shouted worriedly from the background.

She’s a full scholarship student from Kentucky, and a black woman at the School of Engineering, a place where there are not a ton of people who are a) black or b) black women. At 19, I’m assuming she’s also a freshman. SEAS is pretty cut-throat and Columbia undergrad is also not exactly known for their advising…

And we know what they’re listening to. And how they’re dancing.

I expect nothing less from a group of sentient Pink sweatpants and clearance Lily Pulitzer scarves.

Nah, not really. She had access to single parent research/single moms before putting out a POS narrative about motherhood. Now she is dealing with the fallout of her own assumptions and misguided expectations which nobody would’ve known about had she not written her book.