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The Privileged Rapist: Brock Turner
This blog exists to challenge white heterosexual male supremacy as an institutionalized ideology and a systematized set of practices which are misogynistic, heterosexist, racist, genocidal, and ecocidal.
Before some assessment and analysis of this case, I’ll begin with this snippet from NBCnews.com:
It was the epitome of white privilege, the narrative went — a student and star swimmer at prestigious Stanford University is arrested on rape-related charges, and after more than 16 months, he’s sentenced to only six months.And the authorities refuse to let the public see his arrest photo.
Until Monday. Here it is:
If he were poorer and Black, he’d be called ‘a wild animal’ or ‘a vicious thug’ among other white supremacist coded language for ‘normal Black man’.
What the predator can be thankful for is his race, class, and ethnic background. And his status as a male college student at an elite school and a star athlete to boot–in a predominantly white sport at that. And a few rape culture accomplices judge, a father, and a friend who not only have been more than willing to ignore the woman behind the dumpster, but also toss her under the bus.
“His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve…” “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.”
“He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile,” the letter says, noting that the former Olympic hopeful is now a registered sex offender.
No mention of being ashamed at what his son did ‘for 20 minutes’. No acknowledgement it was rape, even though there were witnesses. It morphs into a politically and morally neutral ‘action’.
Let’s replace “His” and “He” with “Her” and “She” and reread the statement.
Her life will never be the one that she dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve.
She will never be her happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile.
Judge Persky has acted on behalf of rapists before. Read about that here:
As Andrea Dworkin once wrote, “the punishment for getting drunk and going in a frat boy’s dorm room should be a hangover, not rape.”
Or being outside. Or at home. Or being anywhere when inebriated. Or not inebriated. What patriarchal rape culture does so well is punish women for simply being.
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Source: http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-privileged-rapist-brock-turner.html
