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Russell Brand convicted of 7000 rapes (approximately)
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 446087" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Well.....yes...<em>and</em> no.</p><p></p><p>There's currently a lot of gloating going on and I get the impression that it's masquerading as "feeling for the victims" and "it's about time this monster gets what he deserves".</p><p>It's in the <em><strong>additional</strong></em> comments "he's always been a creep or a weirdo (or whatever)" that tells me they're judging him for being <em><strong>exactly that</strong></em>, and the rape allegations/convictions are merely covenient tools to punish this "outrageous person".</p><p></p><p>I'm not defending Russell Brand I'm just saying that there's a strong undercurrent of hands-wringing and pearls-clutching hypocrisy in these comments, a sense of satisfaction in the "I told you so!" regardless of how informed they actually are.</p><p>I mean, for exactly the same reasons people are inclined to support the accused criminal who has a pleasant and level-headed profile.</p><p>"Burn the witch!" was never about eliminating danger & disaster, it was about that bitch they hated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 446087, member: 8"] Well.....yes...[I]and[/I] no. There's currently a lot of gloating going on and I get the impression that it's masquerading as "feeling for the victims" and "it's about time this monster gets what he deserves". It's in the [I][B]additional[/B][/I] comments "he's always been a creep or a weirdo (or whatever)" that tells me they're judging him for being [I][B]exactly that[/B][/I], and the rape allegations/convictions are merely covenient tools to punish this "outrageous person". I'm not defending Russell Brand I'm just saying that there's a strong undercurrent of hands-wringing and pearls-clutching hypocrisy in these comments, a sense of satisfaction in the "I told you so!" regardless of how informed they actually are. I mean, for exactly the same reasons people are inclined to support the accused criminal who has a pleasant and level-headed profile. "Burn the witch!" was never about eliminating danger & disaster, it was about that bitch they hated. [/QUOTE]
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