Meeting the parents after 2 weeks- even as a PR stunt- is... absurd. If any part of this is real, they must have been fucking around longer.

Obviously the right decision. She shouldn’t have pursued this from the start, but it’s worth noting that the only reason this ever dragged on so long is because anti discrimination law attorneys realized the most effective method of dealing with affirmative action is to make them apply to whites. This girl is a pawn…

5. I assumed he meant the violence he’s inflicted on her and her family

I think the point of contention isn’t whether or not she asked, it’s whether she had any reason to believe her call would be answered- in time, if at all.

1. link is broken 2. “Most of it” was the usual, okay, but if any of it was the stuff described above? That’s fucked up. Obviously, people’s shock and disgust is not coming from the fact that there was “S&M” stuff.

Do you mean “at best” as in “at most,” or like “best case scenario” he was only wildly inappropriate? sorry, not firing on all cylinders today

Already explained down thread, but I thought it meant RedState the website

I assumed an association with the nutty website Redstate. Like Jews for Jesus!

“Red State Dems”

I know nothing about his campaign - or his words - is coherent, but it seems odd that he’s even trying to align himself with the LGBT community? I feel like that could only alienate him from his core base, and anyone who would *like* that sees how disingenuous this all is. Like, what’s the goal here? Does he just want…

They weren’t the person who said he was full of himself tho

That’s not the groom to be, that’s some weirdo named Alexander Werz, apparently.

she’s not even looking in her direction you weirdo! it looks like she’s squinting into the sun.

Dude, your fixation is bordering on mental illness.

He settled out of court. The accusations were never proven false. That’s a little different than being exonerated. I think OP’s point is that we’ll never really know what happened, and that’s different than allegations that are proven false.

I’ve had the same experience with all but one dentist, my most recent one - he was very honest and said that there was no reason to remove them. Sure enough, I’m 27 and they don’t give me any trouble. I always assumed it was a money thing!

If his attorneys are any good, they will argue that this could have prejudiced the jury and swayed them into choosing the death penalty. Wouldn’t be a mistrial though. Death row inevitably leads to years of appeals and stays of execution anyway. - law student

We have, 100%, executed innocent people. How many correct convictions can right that wrong? What margin of error can we as a society be comfortable with? I don’t begrudge any victim’s family member for wanting the vengeance of the death penalty, but I do not trust our racist, fucked up system to dole out justice. Not…

As a raging liberal, I encourage you to look into the way that racism and classism impact how the death penalty is doled out. And to consider how the targeting of minorities inevitably leads to wrongful convictions.

I totally get what you’re saying. But it’s not about guys like this; it’s about those cases where we learn, years down the road, that they didn’t do it. That we executed an innocent person. That’s why the death penalty is so abhorrent (to me).