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The writer attends the above school. I don't believe that his story is true. I bet he wrote this for a class assignment. Someone who had been robbed at gunpoint would not be so empathetic to the people who pointed a gun in their face. It's a propaganda piece. Social conditioning.
Understanding why people do stuff doesn't mean you condone it. Saying that you better get used to it proly just meant that if you don't do something about crime and poverty, to get used to the mugging.
Understanding why people do stuff doesn't mean you condone it. Saying that you better get used to it proly just meant that if you don't do something about crime and poverty, to get used to the mugging.
Uh, he said we should get 'comfortable' with it, not 'used to it.'
And then topped that off by mewling that he could 'hardly blame them.'
I was mugged my first year in college by a group of young surly individuals. I was a white kid from a white bread Leave It To Beaver suburban neighborhood where everybody was friendly and nice there. I was overloaded down with engineering materials, big drafting paper, etc., an easy mark. Had a gun pressed against me and turned over the watch my mother had given me for Christmas earlier that year. Had zero sympathy for the muggers. That watch had tremendous sentimental value as it was when the digital quartz watches had first come out, a nice Seiko with red digits. Of course by today’s standards it’s outdated and primitive but it was something my mother, now deceased, had given me my last Christmas in high school and something still very special to me.
I learned from the experience and never carried any visible valuables with me in a contested city environment again, wallet in front pocket, etc. Anything that approaches within 2 meters is considered hostile unless known personally. These turkeys had come up to me and my buddy and wanted to “know what time it was”. Suburban naive kid being friendly obliged and had to use two hands to press the watch button. Gee, these fellows sure seem really interested, guess digital watches are new to them too. Were they impressed with the incredible quartz accuracy? I doubt it, probably hocked it to fuel a budding drug habit and they are all likely either deceased by now or enjoying residence in a comfortable detention center somewhere more suited to their drain on to society and other assorted anti social compulsions.
To persuade victims to collaborate in violent crimes against them and tell them that their being abused and robbed is appropriate and the right of their assailants
is true evil
Nothing but words of satan
When rape is inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it.
Uh, he said we should get 'comfortable' with it, not 'used to it.'
And then topped that off by mewling that he could 'hardly blame them.'
I suggest you go back and re-read the article.
Not much of a difference. Get comfortable and get used to it is pretty much stating the same thing.
The can hardly blame them is an attempt to understand them by inferring that times are tough, do you blame people for turning to crime? It's not hard to decipher.
While I suspect its a satirical story, I can't believe you don't get what he's saying.
The only possible way that you don't is because you have such a black and white outlook with a strict and ridiculous moral code that sees explanations and any empathizing as "making up excuses".
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