Free Dharun Ravi !!! Kinda sorta.
I was wondering what it was that was bothering me about this case. Yeah... partly that the perp is 19 y.o. or so; jail will only serve to further fuck-up him.... and his family; he couldn't have really predicted the consequences of his actions ( i.e that Tyler would jump off the GW Bridge) etc.
But none of that is really "it."
It's getting a little spooky: Dan Savage seems... once again... to know what I'm thinking and WHY I'm thinking before I fully do myself. (HTF did he get up there anyway?!)
This is "it" ( or at least CLOSE to it.).
From today's NYT:
>>Dan Savage, a gay columnist whose video campaign, “It Gets Better,” began in response to other suicides of gay teenagers just before Mr. Clementi, 18, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge, argued that simply locking up Mr. Ravi was a lost opportunity to talk about the other institutions and people “complicit” in Mr. Clementi’s death.
“What was he told about being gay growing up, by his faith leaders, by the media, by the culture?” Mr. Savage said. “Ravi may have been the last person who made him feel unsafe and abused and worthless, but he couldn’t have been the first.
“The rush to pin all the responsibility on Ravi and then wash our hands and walk away means we’re not going to learn the lessons of these kids.”>>
In other words.... putting Ravi away serves to sweep all the anti-gay bullshit alive and abounding in the culture neatly under the rug. We shouldn't let them get away with that.
Good article. Read it. Or else.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/nyregion/Some-Gay-Rights-Advocates-Question-Rutgers-Sentencing.html?hpw
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