Dharun Ravi’s Hateless Hate Crime
21st March 2012
After Dharun Ravi was convicted of “bias intimidation” crimes that carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, many people wondered why he had rejected a plea deal that would have kept him out of jail. Ravi’s lawyer explained that the 20-year-old defendant’s parents “didn’t believe their son acted with hate, or bias, and they didn’t want him labeled like that for life.” But it turns out you can be convicted of a hate crime without hating anyone….
Oh brave new world, that has such bullshit in it.
March 21st, 2012 at 09:08
The Jury seems to rest a lot on Tyler’s mind. What they seemed to have forgotten is that
if Ravi’s posts really bothered Tyler
Clementi, he would not have brought MB repeatedly – 3 times, in one
week to have sex in his room. He could have been doing to out
himself to the larger society after having come out to his family,
and the gay community with his account on gay dating sites.
Alternately he could have said I don’t give a F*** what his imbecile
room mate Ravi had to say in this matter and stick it in his face.
Let us remember this was a shy kid coming out slowly but surely and
turning into a strong man while MB was still in the closet. Clementi
could have been showing the strength in these matters and may have
been leading MB out.
Many ask why he did not accept a plea bargain.
One it is a matter of principle – if you have not been biased why accept bias as a plea? Accepting such an unfair plea will label you for life as a bigot when you really are not. He would have accepted if it was left at Privacy invasion and leaving the bias part of it out.
Regardless of what assurance any one can give you on immigration help – he would have been deported. The immigration laws are very strict. Here is how it is worded:
Any alien who at the any time of
admission is convicted of two or more criminal charges, not arising out of a
single scheme of criminal misconduct, regardless of whether confined
therefor and regardless of whether the convictions were in a single
trial, is deportable.