Needed to share this WTF.

Mar 11, 2011 17:54

Originally posted by lavenderfrost at ...WTF.
Well, there goes my good mood for the day.

NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas  that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right?  Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness.

Only problem is, they ( Read more... )

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seikochan March 12 2011, 01:27:36 UTC
Oh, jeez, we were just discussing the just-world phenomenon in Social Psych yesterday. The world, why the hell is it like this. DX

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black_howling March 12 2011, 02:34:05 UTC
I read about this the other day on Kristin Cashore's blog (she links to other articles as well). It makes me sick.

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missedshapes March 12 2011, 03:47:45 UTC
Ugh, I just read about this. I can't even articulate how this disgusting this is. There's a petition at Change.org about this. And apparently an editor at the NYT already issued an apology or something, but it's just online, not published in the actual paper.

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