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Tyler Clementi : Is Ravi the patsy and poster boy for anti-gay bias
Reader brings up some uncomfrtable points about the Tyler Clementi case
The death of a young man or women is always a tragedy and I know that it’s someone in town and not a day goes by that my heart does not ache for the family but it’s like getting Capone on tax evasion.
First my thoughts on bias crimes are different than most and may run against the norm.
For example – a gay roommate is disgusted that his hetero roommate is having sex in their room with a local divorcee who prefers younger men. He sets up a webcam and plans to broadcast it. The kid finds out and OD’s because he’s ashamed. The media comes out and calls it a prank gone tragically wrong. Would the gay roommate be looking at 10 years for bias? I don’t think so.
Call me crazy but there is something more not being said about this case. What Ravi did was wrong but the other circumstances don’t seem to add up.
· Why is the prosecutor focusing on Ravi and cut his accomplice a deal?
· M.B. was supposed to be a twentysomething and turns out to be 32. Had Clementi been 1 year younger, M.B. may have been charged as a predator.
· Where was the security at the dorm? As a parent, I had to sign in and out of my daughter’s dorm when visiting. Now, it’s OK when some scruffy 30+ y/o drop in?
· Upon finding out about the webcam, Clementi takes a day, lives his normal life, hops in his car, drives right past Ridgewood and onto Fort Lee to jump. Did he feel that he had no safe haven @ home? The parents said they were upset when he came out to them. Even the parents feel that Ravi should receive no jail time.
· There are stories of heteros being barged in on, video’ed and pics plastered all over the net that have shamed the victim. I don’t hear an uproar about them.
This is not for publication but I just get the feeling that Ravi is set up as the patsy and poster boy for anti-gay bias. IMHO he should receive some kind of punishment for his violation of Clementi’s privacy but there are complicit parties to his death that will walk off with no culpability.
https://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/twist_in_rutgers_spy_trial_F83qfeBNjZRL5d6W8hyTRP
