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By: Day of Blogs » 9: Rapist Sentenced to 422 Years

Day of Blogs » 9: Rapist Sentenced to 422 Years — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:08:44 +0000

[...] previously criticized the incredibly graphic coverage of this case, I won’t repeat it. Let it suffice to say that [...]

By: brenna

brenna — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:31:19 +0000

Human society can only function by contract. You can be a specimen of homo sapiens sapiens, but there’s a bar to entry into the welcoming arms of humanity. The human family. You do THIS? You no longer qualify. You are a jumped up ape who is clearly rabid and must be put down before he causes one more ounce of pain to any living thing.

And this is how genocide happens. Human beings are animals capable of horrible, horrible things. Do not fall into the trap of trying to separate yourself from that. Know that it is possible and that is why we must stand guard.

This man is a horrible person who did a horrible thing and he must be held accountable for that. But he is still a human being. If he were not, we would not be correct in punishing him.

By: juju

juju — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:45:54 +0000

Last year when this story first broke, I recall reading a similar level of detail in other news articles. This NYT piece seems to be in keeping with how this horror is being covered. I guess we should be grateful that some fine journalist hasn’t yet released her name, or some other easily identifiable detail of her life.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:44:57 +0000

my mind says he should get LWP

He’ll probably get shanked at the first opportunity – no loss to the human race though

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:52:23 +0000

I really did not feel that the level of description used in the article was necessary. Dealing with this horrible experience is going to be difficult enough for her without each and every second of it becoming public knowledge. With the way rape victims are treated this is going to make her recovery that much more difficult, while turning him into some sort of sick cult hero for people that get off on torturing women. I wonder if they author of this report realized what he/she ( cannot remember gender of author) did when they wrote this. How many sick individuals will read the description of this attack, get excited and form even more demented ideas about how to harm women?

By: amandaw

amandaw — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:29:34 +0000

ugh. not just the level of detail and choosing to use it in narrative (rather than brief description), but the fact that they just end the story with her running out into the hallway.

so the torture merits detail, but how she got herself to help doesn’t? who heard her, what they did?

it’s kind of telling. imo.

i don’t understand what makes society like to see this stuff. it’s the same as the lifetime movie genre. all these awful things you hope never happen to anyone you know, self included. and it’s not schadenfreude because most people identify with the victim and feel awful for her (usually her). i don’t know what it is, beyond that. maybe it’s some sick comfort to people to know that these kinds of things happen. maybe they get something out of the anger at the perpetrator. (especially — sorry — the men who buy into the whole macho protector role)

dunno. it disturbed me too.

By: Ailei

Ailei — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:57:40 +0000

Cara, no, I had no idea about his race.

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:45:56 +0000

I’m not going to argue with people about their views on the death penalty, and that kind of debate can, for the most part, freely occur. But can we please not use words like “ape”? I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume, since it’s not mentioned in the NYT article, that you weren’t aware that the man on trial is black. Which doesn’t restrict us from talking about the heinousness of the crime or the kind of horribly shitty excuse for a human being that you’d have to be to commit it, but it absolutely does rule out monkey-referencing language.

By: Ailei

Ailei — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:35:29 +0000

You know…I cannot get behind how the death penalty is applied in this country, and so I cannot endorse it, but I am not against it in principle. Human society can only function by contract. You can be a specimen of homo sapiens sapiens, but there’s a bar to entry into the welcoming arms of humanity. The human family. You do THIS? You no longer qualify. You are a jumped up ape who is clearly rabid and must be put down before he causes one more ounce of pain to any living thing.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:33:51 +0000

I’m against the death penalty because I believe that all human life has value. In cases like this, I wonder if the guy is human at all.