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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Rossputin
On Monday, in a New Jersey court, Judge Glenn Berman sentenced Rutgers
University student Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail for crimes which emanated
from his freshman-year spying on a former roommate with a webcam. That
roommate, Tyler Clementi, was seen briefly kissing another male. Ravi’s
snooping – and then “tweeting” about it and sharing the video feed with
several friends – is widely assumed to have been a factor in Clementi’s
September, 2010 suicide, accomplished by jumping off the George Washington
Bridge.
However, a suicide note left by Clementi, which has not been made public,
reportedly did not name the Ravi-related events as the reasons for his
suicide. And an in-depth story of the lives and interactions of Clementi and
Ravi in New Yorker magazine shows Clementi not particularly bothered, at
least initially, by the spying: “But its not like he left the cam on or
recorded or anything / he just like took a five sec peep lol.” Furthermore,
Clementi had gone to a gay student association meeting at Rutgers and told
a friend “I would consider myself out…if only there was someone for me to
come out to.”
The desperation of a young man driven to end his own life, is nearly beyond
comprehension – and must certainly be so to his parents. But sadness, even
tragedy, must not be confused with injustice.
Please read the entirety of my article for the American Spectator here:
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/23/nobody-pushed-tyler-cl | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 My op-ed on Ravi/Clementi
by Rossputin
I was very pleased to be contacted by USA Today on Thursday, asking me to
write an opposing view on their take that the conviction and sentencing of
Dharun Ravi was fair because society is becoming less tolerant of bias. (
They had seen my American Spectator article which made roughly the opposite
point to theirs.)
I wrote my view for them, and it has been published as the “Opposing View”
in Friday’s USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-05-24/rutgers-w |
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