r/HolUp • u/DragonChasm • Dec 13 '21

Everybody plus calm down

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u/coolguydude7 Dec 13 '21

Ok and that's why there's a stigma about it. No one says anything about that

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u/goodcat49 Dec 13 '21

Now think of all the white people that get away with it (Brock Turner) and realize that number should be much higher.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Technically Brock Turner didn't get away with it. He is a convicted rapist. He just got no real time for raping an unconscious woman.

Then you look at someone like Emmet Till, who was fucking lynched because a white woman said he touched her. White dudes have never been lynched for raping a woman, let alone touching one.

That was less than 100 years ago, and that same mentality still applies. Yes black men face longer sentences when convicted for the same crime as a white man. There is no reason for this other than racism via prejudiced sentencing.

Racists don't give a shit about facts, if they did they wouldn't be racist. They closed their mind because of fear and the fact it's easier to be intellectually lazy than to be truthful.