I don't read the Guardian but....

[psychochicken]

...someone posted this on Facebook and it made me (a) piss myself, and (b) wish I was elequent enough to put it like that because it's exactly how I feel about it. But then I started following links and got sucked in and found this, on a not entirely unrelated topic, with which I also agree wholeheartedly.

Oh dear. Does this make me a pseudo

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[f4f3]

Well no.
THAT doesn't make you a pseudo intellectual wannabe middle class pain in the arse...

[anthrokeight]

I must be a pseudointellectual wannabe middle class pain in the arse because the second article is Guardian-blog for what I've been saying in Anthro-speak all along.

Dawkins-esque atheism as perpetuated by urban hipster emo-kids of Minneapolis is a form of neo-colonialism, and it pisses me right off.

I also think Roman Polanksi should be extradited and sentenced (as well as tried and charged for fleeing) which means I am also a right-wing-nut.

There's no winning.

[psychochicken]

Indeed. It struck a chord with me too. Nice to know it's also been recognised at your level and I'm not just mad.

On the Polanski thing I was right with you until I found out that the victim has since sued him, got the closest to 'justice' she's ever going to get and wants the charges dropped. Although I do see the point of "do the crime do the time", I do feel it has to be tempered with "who would benefit from him being thrown in jail at this point". I mean, who?

[anthrokeight]

Re: Polanksi and the matter of how much the victim's desire to have the charges drop. I'd write out my response to that but Kate Harding at the Broad Sheet makes the point better than I ever could

[psychochicken]

Don't disagree with any word of that. The man's slime of the lowest order. Still don't see who benefits from putting him in jail *now*. Doesn't mean I don't think they should, I just don't see a huge amount of point, is all.

Frankly though the bigger shame should be on the justice system for allowing this go on so long. They singularly failed to put a man who, as is clearly stated several times there, raped a child and plead guilty, in jail then let him bugger off to France for two decades. I mean, how can the individual victim successfully persue a case against him and the might of the US justice system can't? They lost this one big time - and putting him in jail now doesn't change that either. I only hope they learned from it.