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Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old [W:245]

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The media circus around this case has been unbelievable. How many worse crimes than this receive little to no news coverage, especially if it's a crime against men?

They're probably guilty, but there's no way they could have gotten a fair trial in this atmosphere. Anybody remember Duke LaCrosse?

The sentence is fair, but I know it won't satisfy the vindictiveness of many who would like to see them drawn and quartered or hung by their balls. It's a good thing the blood-lusting general public doesn't hand down sentences.
 
Re: Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl

The media circus around this case has been unbelievable. How many worse crimes than this receive little to no news coverage, especially if it's a crime against men?

They're probably guilty, but there's no way they could have gotten a fair trial in this atmosphere. Anybody remember Duke LaCrosse?

The sentence is fair, but I know it won't satisfy the vindictiveness of many who would like to see them drawn and quartered or hung by their balls. It's a good thing the blood-lusting general public doesn't hand down sentences.

l wish they were totally cut off .......
 
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Re: Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl

They're probably guilty, but there's no way they could have gotten a fair trial in this atmosphere. Anybody remember Duke LaCrosse?

Fair doesn't mean that two punks who posted proof of their own guilt all over the internet and through text messaging get to walk away from their crimes unscathed.

The sentence is fair, but I know it won't satisfy the vindictiveness of many who would like to see them drawn and quartered or hung by their balls. It's a good thing the blood-lusting general public doesn't hand down sentences.

As opposed to a judge who suspends a rapist's house arrest so he can go on a six day vacation to the All American Bowl in California?
 
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Sixteen year old boys think with their dicks, add alcohol and a passed out girl to that and you see what happens. Good lesson for girls here.

Uh, yeah. I've been in the situation many times in HS and managed not to rape anyone.
 
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Oh, I know you're not coming in here and saying that a girl who was raped is, in any way, responsible for other people's actions?

If she was drunk, is she responsible for being drunk? Absolutely.
If she was drunk, is she responsible for two people raping her? Absolutely ****ing not.

She isn't responsible, partially or otherwise, for other people's CHOICES.

For God's sake, it's 2013. Can we please throw this medieval bull**** out the window?

While it in no way condones their behavior, people should be aware that getting passed out drunk can open you up to exploitation.
 
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The girl was in a "drunken stupor". I'm not saying she had it coming but if a 16 year old girl gets drunk and passes out in the midst of drunk 16 year old boys she has to take partial responsibility for the results.

Like hell she does. Just because a girl's drunk doesn't mean ya can force yourself on her and rape her.
 
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Like hell she does. Just because a girl's drunk doesn't mean ya can force yourself on her and rape her.

Perhaps more disturbing is that at least one of these witnesses, who walked in on the gang rape, said he didn't think that molesting an unconscious girl counts as rape. In his mind, she hast to be actively resisting and screaming bloody murder or isn't rape and, if the girl is unconscious, it's an automatic yes to whatever you choose to do to her.
 
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were they black and muslim ?
Were they Japanese Druids?

Or were they just rapists?
 
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Were they Japanese Druids?

they should be cut off under every condition

agree ?
 
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they should be cut off under every condition

agree ?
Agreed. With a very dull knife.
 
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While it in no way condones their behavior, people should be aware that getting passed out drunk can open you up to exploitation.
No ****. I'm glad that so many people have felt that this - above not raping people - needs to be emphasized.
 
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they should be cut off under every condition

agree ?

Would you also support removing the uteruses of female pedophiles/ statutory rapists? By the way please keep your Sharia 12th Century style justice in your own region of the world where it belongs.
 
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Agreed. With a very dull knife.
Oh, but water boarding's torture :roll:
 
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l wish they were totally cut off .......

Wow...

On second thought, no, I'm not surprised.
 
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Would you also support removing the uteruses of female pedophiles/ statutory rapists? By the way please keep your Sharia 12th Century style justice in your own region of the world where it belongs.

haha :)

l dont think the rate of female pedohiles are higher than men's

and sharia rules save the men like you ........

sunni sharia : dominance of men.

l am glad l live in a secular country where l can still defend my rights
 
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While it in no way condones their behavior, people should be aware that getting passed out drunk can open you up to exploitation.

High school
Drunk dudes
Drunk Chick
Chick makes out with some of the guys
Girl refuses to leave with other girls
chick passes out

What happens next?
 
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Like hell she does. Just because a girl's drunk doesn't mean ya can force yourself on her and rape her.

What it means is exactly what I said it means, she has some responsibility in this. I am a white guy and if I decided to go to Compton late one night and walk through the meanest part of town and I got the crap beat out of me it would be partially my fault. Just because I'm a white guy in Compton doesn't mean you have a right to beat the crap out of me but the reality is theres a damn good chance it will happen.
 
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High school
Drunk dudes
Drunk Chick
Chick makes out with some of the guys
Girl refuses to leave with other girls
chick passes out

What happens next?
Arrogance is what sank them. If these guys had just kept their mouths shut this girl wouldn't likely have a case. From what I understand, the principal evidence proving the nature of the sex act was their facebook, text and picture content.

If they had kept quiet they could have claimed it was consensual and probably gotten away with it.
 
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No ****. I'm glad that so many people have felt that this - above not raping people - needs to be emphasized.

lol, save your manufactured outrage for someone who cares.
 
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Like hell she does. Just because a girl's drunk doesn't mean ya can force yourself on her and rape her.

He didn't say that, but these guys are high school kids and their dicks are running their damn body and they just so happen to be drunk. Young girls better be aware of the dangers present in that situation. Considering that most people are morally bankrupt at their core that only raises the chances things are going to go wrong in that situation when the only thing stopping their true nature has been removed from the equation.
 
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Your response to a harsh analysis of the perpetrators of this incident is to immediately bleat that someone may be racist.

You should be ashamed of your limp wristed complete disregard for the suffering of the 16 year old victim and your hot eyed leap to wrap a cloak of warm Liberal goo around the brutality of the perpetrators. Liberals like you are precisely what causes things like this to happen to innocent children.

Back up under the porch, little dog.
 
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What it means is exactly what I said it means, she has some responsibility in this. I am a white guy and if I decided to go to Compton late one night and walk through the meanest part of town and I got the crap beat out of me it would be partially my fault. Just because I'm a white guy in Compton doesn't mean you have a right to beat the crap out of me but the reality is theres a damn good chance it will happen.

Sure it's not smart to get drunk, but that doesn't mean she should take responsibility for being raped! That's misogynistic and you're punishing the victim. Maybe you should instead not hate the victim and instead place full blame on the rapists for raping her.
 
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Sure it's not smart to get drunk, but that doesn't mean she should take responsibility for being raped! That's misogynistic and you're punishing the victim. Maybe you should instead not hate the victim and instead place full blame on the rapists for raping her.
The rapist's father takes some responsibility. I think there's enough blame to go around.

Not like we'll do anything to correct this behavior, no, we're worried about gun control and gays in the military instead.
 
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The guys are responsible for their reprehensible actions. They violated that girl and showed little regard for what they did (outside of pleasure or pride). They certainly deserved to be punished.

But I agree with those who say the girl has some level of responsibility for putting herself in a situation where her safety was compromised. She didn't do anything to "deserve" being raped, and her errors in judgment do not lessen the severity of the actions taken by the boys. But she made terrible decisions, compromised her own ability to protect herself, and left herself weak and vulnerable to the nefarious actions of others.

I feel for her in many ways, but being a victim doesn't negate her obligation to protect herself, or excuse her for failing to do so. I hope she's learned from this experience and that with therapy and encouragement she'll find a way to move on from what happened and learn to make better decisions in the future.
 
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They raped a girl and got a slap on the wrist.

IMO a rape conviction should come with a mandatory death penalty.

That's too harsh, especially because it's one of the easiest false accusations.
 
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