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> So, you're addicted, maybe not even because of your own fault Yeah, my heart goes out for all those underprivileged Harvard/Cornell/Rutgers students with loa

by patrec 4y ago

> So, you're addicted, maybe not even because of your own fault Yeah, my heart goes out for all those underprivileged Harvard/Cornell/Rutgers students with loaded parents, who at some point in their ivy league degree and due no fault of their own, suddenly find themselves at a point where they just have to take up drug-dealing. > And he didn't even harm anybody else. It's a she. And chances are, if you're dealing heroin, you are probably harming someone.

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SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
> After applying to and getting into Rutgers University, she made money to pay for classes by joining a strip club and escort agency, which allowed her to rent an apartment of her own. [1] Yes, won't someone please get that silver spoon out of her mouth. People who come from a middle-class life can end up in bad situations as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keri_Blakinger#Homelessness,_addiction,_and_abuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keri_Blakinger#Homelessness,_a...
- patrec 4y ago
  Would I also be expected to feel sorry for her had she taken up sex work and drug dealing to afford different luxury goods, a Porsche Carrera say? The Porsche's lower price tag and resale value would have arguably made it a more prudent investment than an elite university English degree with private accommodation. > People who come from a middle-class life can end up in bad situations as well. There's little indication that any of the bad situations she ended up in had external causes. May then one's sympathy with the self-inflicted hardships of the privileged not at least be conditional on a little readiness to assume some responsibility? When she writes: > After almost a decade of struggling with heroin addiction, I’d gotten arrested just a few days before I was supposed to finish my last semester at Cornell. It sounds like the system conspired to rob poor struggling Keri of her Cornell(TM) degree right before the finish line. The reality is that she was a drug dealer caught with $150'000 worth of heroin in her possession (she brags about it elsewhere). But to her the real story are the minor inconveniences the prison system temporarily put in the way of her completing her degree and one of 50 states banning her inspirational and recently released life-story. She does not disagree with proscribing certain books for prisoners but appears offended that the somewhat arbitrary lists different states have drawn up do not completely match the arbitrary list she personally would have drawn up (and fail to fully reflect her own tastes in the ravings of murderous psychopaths).

by patrec 4y ago

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SketchySeaBeast 4y ago

> After applying to and getting into Rutgers University, she made money to pay for classes by joining a strip club and escort agency, which allowed her to rent an apartment of her own. [1] Yes, won't someone please get that silver spoon out of her mouth. People who come from a middle-class life can end up in bad situations as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keri_Blakinger#Homelessness,_addiction,_and_abuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keri_Blakinger#Homelessness,_a...

patrec 4y ago
Would I also be expected to feel sorry for her had she taken up sex work and drug dealing to afford different luxury goods, a Porsche Carrera say? The Porsche's lower price tag and resale value would have arguably made it a more prudent investment than an elite university English degree with private accommodation. > People who come from a middle-class life can end up in bad situations as well. There's little indication that any of the bad situations she ended up in had external causes. May then one's sympathy with the self-inflicted hardships of the privileged not at least be conditional on a little readiness to assume some responsibility? When she writes: > After almost a decade of struggling with heroin addiction, I’d gotten arrested just a few days before I was supposed to finish my last semester at Cornell. It sounds like the system conspired to rob poor struggling Keri of her Cornell(TM) degree right before the finish line. The reality is that she was a drug dealer caught with $150'000 worth of heroin in her possession (she brags about it elsewhere). But to her the real story are the minor inconveniences the prison system temporarily put in the way of her completing her degree and one of 50 states banning her inspirational and recently released life-story. She does not disagree with proscribing certain books for prisoners but appears offended that the somewhat arbitrary lists different states have drawn up do not completely match the arbitrary list she personally would have drawn up (and fail to fully reflect her own tastes in the ravings of murderous psychopaths).