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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Ty for that when I first heard about the case. I felt like there was some differences and that was the main reason she went to jail but I didn't do the research and with all the racial mongering in the media I ended up getting swayed to the side of the SYG law is just fucked up and doesn't work because it has different outcomes for different people.
Yes, I went from looking at it logically to being swayed by the media. Sue me. shit happens.
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I don't want it to seem like I was attacking or anything. I just think it's important to look at things equitably if we really want equality. I don't blame people for emotional responses. Everyone has them. It's natural. I just think we owe it to society as a whole to put a little effort seeing both sides of things, because there is no way we'll ever get to a good place, socially, if we're only latching on to whatever engages and supports our biases and looking no further.
The really unfortunate thing is politically driven media plays on human tendency, on both sides, and it has a pretty obvious effect. I definitely don't know everything about everything, nor do I wish to, but I do know that if my only source of information is always agreeing with my perspective, it's time to start questioning one or the other.