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Attention, because these kinds of incidents, it s horrifying to say, happen far more often than they end up on the front pages. they happen all the time, and i think it s really important that we look at what s different about this case. this case, there was a witness in the friend, paige parker, there was reportedly an iphone video taken, there was a family that was willing to come forward and a mother who was empowered enough and recognized the signs of rape the morning that she found her daughter and took her straight to a hospital. despite all of these things that make this case seem so horrifying to us, still with all that behind it, it literally didn t get prosecuted. so, imagine and all those things are very unusual, because in most cases like this that happen all the time all over america to all kinds of people, there aren t sober witnesses, there aren t iphone videos, there are far greater areas and late reporting and anxiety about coming forward. and so, i think we should ....
Sexual predatory behavior by young men towards young women is also not new. right. which is not to excuse in any way, but it is not new. part of what makes this so combustible is the presence of social media, the fact that in this case, we think that there was an iphone video. the fact from the stauben en steubenville case, there was an iphone video. how do you understand the way that social media, the way that the publicness of an average teenager changes, like, how people in your generation are thinking about each other and sex? right. i think especially with this, like, overpresence of social media and where we re always being told our mistakes are permanent, the things that we do online can carry offline. i think that s one thing that s so ludicrous about this case is that should be used to the advantage of the victim, and the people fighting for her. if there was a permanent mistake made by the rapists in the video, that should be something that s taken advantage of, so ....
i would also add to all of the things that rebecca just said, it s also the ripple effect of the case, right, so that the mother lost her job, that the house that was on sale was burned down. so, one of the things that we do know it burned. we don t know if it burned down. burned, right. under mysterious circumstances. that may or may not be connected to the case. and her attempted suicide, that s part of my argument here. one of the things we do know is that violence against girls and women begets more violence, so that it s also unusual in the sense of how much violence we see used against the mother, the daughter, the brother, the kind of emotional and maybe physical terror that they re experiencing. and also, i think, the way which is similar to the steubenville case, the way in which it seems like there are a significant portion of the community that has taken a position that from the outside seems just completely morally abominable, right, which is the defense of th ....
Effect of the case, right, so that the mother lost her job, that the house that was on sale was burned down. so, one of the things that we do know it burned. we don t know if it burned down. burned, right. under mysterious circumstances. that may or may not be connected to the case. and her attempted suicide, that s part of my argument here. one of the things we do know is that violence against girls and women begets more violence, so that it s also unusual in the sense of how much violence we see used against the mother, the daughter, the brother, the kind of emotional and maybe physical terror that they re experiencing. and also, i think, the way which is similar to the steubenville case, the way in which it seems like there are a significant portion of the community that has taken a position that from the outside seems just completely morally abominable, right, which is the defense of these alleged assailants and not the survivors. you know, one has to wonder if, becau ....
People will be so ingratiated, so to speak, with this program that they will be the most ardent defenders. i want to play something that senator james inhofe had to say recently about obama care. okay. take a listen. a person can find out here in the united states that he has this emergency situation where he s got to have immediate heart surgery. and if you re in a country other than the united states, a lot of them, you can t get it done. in my case, with my age, it would have been about a six-month wait, because i hadn t had a heart attack. and so, the message there is that, you know, i say this to all your american listeners, let s hold on to what we ve got here. you re talking to someone right now who probably wouldn t be here if we had socialized medicine in america. that s inhofe, who just survived a quadruple bypass. that zombie argument that, a, we re socializing medicine, and that b, it s terrible everywhere else in the world, refuses to die. oh, my god, and it fl ....