cross-posted from: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/34202249
“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” Dumbass
They aren’t blaming the victim, they are too stupid to realise that wrongful conviction means that the convicted didn’t do the crime. They think that they were convicted for a wrongful action aka they were guilty.
Victim blaming no. Dumb beyond remedy, yeah.
Correct. And people with bad reading comprehension vote. Worse, they’re exploited by people who are aware of their weaknesses.
That includes OP and other comments here that also misinterpreted their comment confidently though. Like, read the title, that’s not what they said at all.
Luckily the one that responded them corrected them, but if instead of being educated they received the hate from these comments they’d go way crazier.
Edit: idk why I assumed the comment was from a woman, I’m sorry. I changed all pronouns to they/them.
My first thought. This is stupidity, not malice
Most people aren’t worthy of holding an opinion.
Goddamn I wish it weren’t so.
Are we sure the blacked out name of the first poster isn’t really Ken M? lol
It’s definitely an abhorrent take to blame the victim. I wish it were uncommon enough for it to be incomprehensibly strange. To me it reeks of the insularity and rationalization of one who won’t accept the idea that the environment may have stochastic elements with significant influence.
The idea that injustice is common and can easily happen to anyone without the power to defend themselves is scary. It’s much easier to assume an orderly and just environment. I feel like that’s how we get comments like this. Their knee-jerk reaction sounds to me like:
“I’ve never experienced or observed something like this. He must have done it.”
Whereas, in my opinion, it should be:
“Wow, that’s horrible, and shouldn’t happen.”
I know we can’t solve all problems for everyone. Theres always going to be some kind of baseline for terrible things happening. I’m just repelled by the notion that there are people who will revel in it, even if ignorantly or naively.
What was the stats on US functional illiteracy rates?
Not great but much worse depending on the state.
Bot type comment
What if we all stopped doing crime? If there were absolute zero crime in the world, nobody would be convicted of anything, right?
they’d make more things illegal.
How literally would you draw this? Because if no one commited any crimes, there would be no convictions.
And this people can vote and hold office.
