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Who is going to want to take a class with her? She tortured her preschool age son and left him to die alone locked in an apartment. I don't care WHAT she has done since then. That's not a "mistake". That's murder, and worse.
Shame on NYU.
Bleeding hearts will take her class and praise her for overcoming adversity.
I would not be able to be in the same room as that monster.
Bleeding hearts will take her class and praise her for overcoming adversity.
I would not be able to be in the same room as that monster.
Do you really know who you are sitting in the same room with? Do you know all about your co workers lives? You could have been sitting with someone who commits incest or killed someone during a DUI. You only know of her background because it is in the NYT.
isn't there a famous author who helped kill her friends mother when both children were in their teens?
Is that because you wouldn't or that you couldn't because you weren't accepted into a NYU doctoral program?
Doctoral grad students teach undergrads. She'll undoubtedly be in a room teaching grad students. Who knows? Maybe she'll even be a good teacher. But she'll still be "that woman". I wouldn't take her course, either.
Because NYU is more concerned with being PC than with students. Who lost a chance at grad school that they could feel good about how PC they are? Why don't we ask her son about how he feels? Oh wait,we can't.
Exactly. The woman committed a horrible crime. But if there is zero possibility of rehabilitation in prison, guess where she will end up after leaving prison? Right back in prison. And guess who will be paying for each penitentiary hotel stay? Us. What's better; the possibility that she learn something and better herself the two decades she's in or mere punishment that guarantees she will spend her life in prison after being convicted for various other crimes? Completing one's sentence implies that once someone serves their time, they have paid their debt to society.
We can go back and forth over the crime she committed but the bottom line is she paid her debt to society.
Personally, I find it encouraging to read about someone who has actually taken advantage of her time in incarceration to own up to her mistakes and use the time and opportunity to better herself, so she leaves prison a better person than she was when she entered.
Other than never committing the crime in the first place (too late), isn't this the best or ideal result that we, as a society, should want from the criminal justice system? A person who not only serves their debt but actually comes out a potentially better, more responsible, and contributing member of society.
Because NYU is more concerned with being PC than with students. Who lost a chance at grad school that they could feel good about how PC they are? Why don't we ask her son about how he feels? Oh wait,we can't.
What does that have to do with punishing someone who has a degree from NYU? Nothing at all . Just an absurd knee jerk instead
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