Benevolent One
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Nice. And people wonder why so many people, like me, don't watch CNN.
Steubenville rape case
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Benevolent One
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Ok, let me amend this statement to some degree. It is a shame that their lives are forever changed as a result of this. It really is. But while they may, to a very small extent, be the victims of bad parenting, coddling of athletes, the general lack of morals of their entire generation and other factors, they are certainly not the true victims in this story. They made their choices and they will live with the consequences of those choices. I hope they have to register as sex offenders throughout their adult lives. An article I read said that they had to register until they were 21, but it was unclear if they would have to do so after that. That will certainly effect their lives, but it should do so.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
I don't feel bad for them. The severity of their actions hasn't sunk in and it never will. Notice, in their "apology" that they never apologized or accepted that they raped a girl. They apologized for putting pictures of her on the internet. And they thought they would get away with it, because of who they are. IMO, that is part of a societal problem. The media defending them sends out a message to young boys that it's okay to rape a drunk girl. Our society sends out a message every day that you can get away with crimes if you're an athlete or celebrity.
Being charged as juveniles was a slap in the face to this girl and to society as a whole. By doing so, a message was sent that teenage boys aren't responsible for their actions. Are the two who were sentenced above the AoC in Ohio?
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
My guess is the girls who got arrested for the threats will do more time for that then the 2 boys will.
Benevolent One
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That's entirely possible. Unless they are big-time basketball or volleyball players, maybe.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
Another reason to watch MSNBC.
breatheoflife
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That's entirely possible. Unless they are big-time basketball or volleyball players, maybe.
Eh, they don't care about those sports.
Jeffrey00
Stamos Cozy
**** those kids, they deserved what they got. Something similar happened in my city last year. Wasn't rape, but a group of football players calling themselves "the woflpack" picked on a kid until he took his own life. Several people picketed outside the school against bullying after nothing was done to the football players. What happened next? The football players and one of their fathers got in a fight with the people picketing. Some people just don't deserve a chance at life no matter how old they are. They will continue to be told they are the best no matter what. The great thing is when they graduate and there is nothing or no one on the other side to hold them up.
Jeffrey00
Stamos Cozy
Why? It is more opinionated out of all the "news" networks...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...stpopular&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Benevolent One
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Actually I don't watch any of the news networks. Every bit of it is skewed by the bias of the people airing it.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
MSNBC isn't a news network and it doesn't claim to be.
Jeffrey00
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I think the key word is "network." Either way, people are going to watch whatever the hell they want to watch and believe whatever feeds their political cancer.
breatheoflife
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A little update. Disgusting.
http://deadspin.com/gross-steubenvi...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
http://deadspin.com/gross-steubenvi...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
FLRacingFan
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Unfortunately it looks like this town still only cares about putting a winning football team out on the field.
Benevolent One
Team Owner
Well, hey. They are nothing if not consistent.
Benevolent One
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And yet another orifice heard from. Serena Williams decided she needed to weigh in with her opinion recently. I'm not sure which orifice it came from, but here it is.
Here is the excerpt from the article, courtesy of Deadspin:
Here is the excerpt from the article, courtesy of Deadspin:
We watch the news for a while, and the infamous Steubenville rape case flashes on the TV—two high school football players raped a 16-year-old, while other students watched and texted details of the crime. Serena just shakes her head. "Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but I don't know. I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you—don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."
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Hmm...
I'm not blaming the girl, but...
Actually Serena, you are blaming the girl.
Do you think it was fair, what they got?
Actually no, I think they got off kind of easy for rape.
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Hmm...
I'm not blaming the girl, but...
Actually Serena, you are blaming the girl.
Do you think it was fair, what they got?
Actually no, I think they got off kind of easy for rape.
Apparently she feels that the boys that participated in the sexual assault bear no responsibility for their actions. It's only the girl that is responsible for the incident 
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You would think a female athlete would be on the side of the victim...considering they're both females.
But I guess dumbassery comes in all forms.
But I guess dumbassery comes in all forms.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
Apparently she feels that the boys that participated in the sexual assault bear no responsibility for their actions. It's only the girl that is responsible for the incident
I'm so ****** sick of this ****** bull****. They blame women for the way they dress, when they flirt, because they ****** drink and so on. It's NEVER the male's ****** responsi-******-bility. Thousands of men, real men, every ****** day, when a girl gets drunk, they call her a ****** cab or take her home.
It's a ****** shame this commentary is necessary:
**** Serena Williams.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
I'm sure millions of women, nationwide, are glad to learn that rape is a "lucky" thing. #Dumbass
FLRacingFan
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She's lucky.
Is this for real? Pray tell how getting raped is "lucky"...I'm sure there are plenty of victims out there that would beg to differ.
Is this for real? Pray tell how getting raped is "lucky"...I'm sure there are plenty of victims out there that would beg to differ.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
97forever
Team Owner
No, they need to be hanged by the damned neck until the windpipes crush and the heads snap off. On live tv.
Then pissed on.