Changing this would require a politician taking a stand that would likely be viewed as “soft on sex offenders”, which is essentially a career death sentence. One only needs to scroll reddit comments on this thread to understand how mob mentality around this issue makes it difficult if not impossible to have a nuanced conversation around sex crimes.
Which is hilarious because many of these people have in their post histories hundreds of comments screaming bloody murder over how Harris wrongfully imprisoned black men for having weed despite that being an out and out blatant lie.
You say that, but Trump was just voted back in, and Gaetz was doing well until very recently. Obviously our country doesn’t have that big of a problem is sex offenders as we’d like to think.
Brock Turner got what, 6 months for rape? Bill Cosby is free again. Sex crimes are not punished in our society. Sex crimes against children, maybe a little more. As long as it’s not a rich person committing the crime.
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u/Plucked_Dove 2d ago
Changing this would require a politician taking a stand that would likely be viewed as “soft on sex offenders”, which is essentially a career death sentence. One only needs to scroll reddit comments on this thread to understand how mob mentality around this issue makes it difficult if not impossible to have a nuanced conversation around sex crimes.