I'm probably getting this information a little bit late, my apologies. I just read an article that Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei have been charged with the "slap on the wrist" of invasion of privacy. Right. For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past 2 months, these are the two insensitive pricks who broadcasted video of Tyler Clementi enjoying the company of another man in the privacy of his dorm room. Wow, apparently America has settled for the most minimum level of punishment and called it "justice." I am disgusted by this. I'm at a point where I would LOVE to see what would happen if this were done to a straight person and it drove them to suicide. Because you know it would never be dropped until the highest level of discipline was exercised. Poor Tyler made headlines for a while but everyone seemed to forget about it pretty quickly. Yet we allow ourselves to stare at our TVs for hours watching our president pick a dog. Other countries may have said it right- Stupid Americans!
What really amazes me is that Dharun Ravi is no stranger to minorities. Ravi, being only 18, may be a bit young for this but since 9/11, if you just look middle eastern, people jump too quickly and think you're a terrorist. Which is narrow minded. It's okay to hate terrorists in general, but not an entire nationality or religious group. I guess he never had to deal with that, lucky for him.
Having been a victim of bullying myself, I know it sucks. I even attempted to end my life several times because of it. And the bullies seem to never think twice about it. Out of morbid curiosity, I've looked up some of these self absorbed assholes on Facebook to see where they are now. I'm glad I failed at those attempts because these losers aren't worth my life and they haven't made enough of theirs for me to still be intimidated by them. I can say that now, because hindsight is 20/20. Poor Tyler won't ever have that. If the justice system won't do it's job, hopefully karma will.
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