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> does anybody think anyone will actually get a 25 year sentence for a little bar fight. Let's switch it up and say that the guy you decked was the son of the
by olefoo 14y ago
> does anybody think anyone will actually get a 25 year sentence for a little bar fight.
Let's switch it up and say that the guy you decked was the son of the prosecutors best buddy from high school. And that you are a minority, high school dropout. In todays america, you very well might be facing the maximum sentence; if not much worse.
- rayiner 14y agoExcept you just made all that up, and also the sentences minorities get and the sentences white kids like Swartz get are (regrettably) two different conversations.
- olefoo 14y agoThe point I was making is that we have a two tiered system of justice in this country; and while it used to be the case that the tiers were divided exclusively by race; they are now divided along the lines of class, and political opinion. The meta-point I am attempting to make is that despite the pieties and the nice heritage architecture of the buildings it lives in; our system of justice has become unutterably and unsustainably corrupt; almost as corrupt as our political system.