Fox Commenters Spew Homophobic Hatred Following Verdict in Clementi Gay Suicide Case
Here’s the story in question:
A former Rutgers University student was found guilty Friday of invasion of privacy and the hate crime of bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s tryst with another man before the roommate’s suicide.
Dharun Ravi, 20, sat expressionless as the guilty verdicts were read in the Middlesex County, N.J., courtroom. He also was found not guilty of some lesser counts.Feb. 28: Dharun Ravi listens to testimony during his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Ravi is accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, in an intimate encounter with another man. Days later Clementi committed suicide.
This undated file photograph provided by Joseph and Jane Clementi shows their son Tyler Clementi.
His former roommate, Tyler Clementi, killed himself in September 2010 by jumping off New York City’s George Washington Bridge after learning his encounter had been caught on camera in a case that touched off a national debate on bullying.
Ravi’s attorneys acknowledged to the jury that the former college student acted in a thoughtless, immature manner, they but denied he was motivated by hatred toward gays.
“He hasn’t lived long enough to have any experience with homosexuality or gays,” attorney Steven Altman said in closing arguments. “He doesn’t know anything about it. He just graduated high school.”
Prosecutors said that Ravi set up a webcam in his dorm room and captured Clementi kissing another man, then tweeted about it and excitedly tried to catch Clementi in the act again two days later. About a half-dozen students were thought to have seen the live video of the kissing.
Within days, Clementi realized he had been watched and leaped from the bridge after posting one last status update on Facebook: “Jumping off the gw bridge, sorry.”Ravi could get up to 10 years in prison, by some estimates — and could be deported to his native India, even though he has lived legally in the U.S. since he was a little boy.
Before the trial, Ravi and his lawyers had rejected a plea bargain that would have spared him from prison. He would have gotten probation and 600 hours of community service and would have been given help in avoiding deportation.
And here’s some of the hate popping up in the comments…
What was the harm the deviant would of been dead of AIDS or some other sausage sucker diease
This was just a college prank. Ravi is not responsible for the gay’s suicide.
PC madness.If I meet people I don’t like, I don’t let them into my house and I certainly do not let them do things I object to in my house if they are let in. Clementi raised an arrogant phaggot that was also a weakling who killed himself, he is a failure as a father and should not be giving anyone else “life advice”
H a t e crimes laws set up protected classes and give them more rights than their fellow citizens (e.g. a criminal will be punished more harshly for k i l l i n g a g a y person than killing a normal person). These laws are unnecessary, discriminatory, and should be repealed.
Move over Sacco and Vanzetti, you have been replaced as the most assinine, unfair, most politically correct verdict yet to come down the pike.
Move over Mother Nature. “It ain’t nice to mess with Mother Nature…” But it does show that the radical left and the homosexual lobby has gained almost supernatural power. The perv got more justice than he ever deserved.Face it - the dumb homosexual made a foolish choice, deciding to toss himself off the Brooklyn Bridge because somebody might have seen him kissing his “partner”.
Kinda puts the lie to the claim that homosexuals are “gay” and “happy” with their chosen lifestyle, doesn’t it!Liberals have apparently convinced themselves that NO college-age “gay” EVER becomes diseased with AIDS, thanks to one of his college-age “partners”.
Thus the very IDEA that such a college-age “gay” would commit suicide by jumping off of the George Washington Bridge is an unacceptable idea, as far as their narrow, bigoted liberal minds are concerned.
Nah, it “must be somebody else’s fault” when a homosexual “offs” himself.Unbelieveable,… we now have two scales of justice,.. one for Gays and minorities,.. and one for the rest of us. I dont think the founding fathers had this in mind when Thomas Jefferson said “All men are created equal” under the law. Nope they must have missed that one in civics class. This was not a crime, and not even tragic that a young man died,.. he killed himself! This is Natural Selection at it’s finest! Liberals love Darwin,.. so here ya go!
There are, sadly, many many more like this. There are a few commenters that are pushing back against the bigots, but it seems they are vastly outnumbered.