I'll never get the American mindset which considers "used the n-word 200 times" the main offense, the one worthy to be in the headline, while "struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach" is just a minor detail that happens to be mentioned somewhere in the article as an afterthought.
It also only serves to continue fueling the polarization of the right. They point and say "See! They will put you in jail simply for saying words!" And since many don't bother to open the article, it spreads and spreads and fuels their fear factory.
It feels like "responsible journalism" is a thing of the past in the face of appeasing the Algorithm.
Watch her get out in a year and be invited to go on the Republican lecture circuit to talk about how woke politics is ruining American college campuses.
This isn't a joke, I seriously think this will happen.
A whole year? Somebody is optimistic.
Yeah she was probably a good Christian too
She's pretty and blond and an idiot. She'll be on Fox News as a host shortly after.
At this point, i genuinely trust that could be a realistic outcome. That episode may have been her very own Rittenhouse Moment™ putting her on conservative radars across the country
The woke liberals are trying to cancel her for the innocent act of being a racist asshole who assaulted a black woman! They're out of control!
!remindme 1 year
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Imagine saying the n-word 100 times in an assault on someone and only being halfway done. 😬
how long was the assault? That's like dozens of hard Rs per minute. What a psycho.
10 minutes. That's one every 3 seconds...
Those are all the stifled n-words shes been holding back thus far in her brief lifespan thus far. They all came out at once
Interesting that the Independent made sure to mention that this student was drunk not once, but twice, as if that were an excuse.
No one says that word when drunk if they wouldn't be willing to say it out loud in certain company.
Her being drunk is relevant to reporting the truth. They're not excusing her actions but giving context. As you pointed out, she may never have said these slurs in her open life, but she was probably thinking them and alcohol greased the wheels on her racism.
That's some serious grease. To go from zero n-words sober to two hundred times drunk?
Nah, it's pretty normal.
You see it a lot with people who are generally seen as "nice people" when not drunk and then turn into very violent people when the are drunk (a member of my family was like that).
A lot of people run around with pretty nasty issues that they do not act on because of social inhibitions and/or awareness of the social consequences of acting on those, and alcohol lowers those inhibitions and the "think twice before you open your mouth" that makes people take those secondary implications they're aware of into account - alcohol just takes away the internal overseer that was stopping them to be who they really are.
This is not excusing their actions: when not drunk those people are NOT nice inside, they just act nicer than they are because they know the consequences of doing otherwise and don't want to feel social shame, or in other words their being "nice" is just a mask and they'll probably act on those not nice things in their minds if they feel they can get away with it (IMHO, this is why some people who are nice, meek and even submissiness when powerless, turn very nasty when they find themselves in a position of power).
Talk about White Washing a story.
How was this not elevated to a hate crime? That sentance is weak sauce for a racially motivated attack
It's hard not to just be blunt here. She's a white girl. Sentencing guidelines and police protocols are different for people matching that description. It's a known, researched phenomenon.
It's not unreasonable to say that the police work for non-impoverished, non-overweight white women. It's noticeable in how quick white women are to call the police and think the police will help with a problem.
Statistically, you are roughly about 1000% more likely to experience police violence if you are not a white woman.
It's not really for being a white girl, it's primarily for being a girl.
Women get 63% lighter sentences for the same crimes as men ( https://academic.oup.com/aler/article-abstract/17/1/127/212179 ), while there is no racial gap between white and another race, whether among men, or women, that's even half that wide ( https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing ).
Her being white is most certainly a factor. Racial judicial bias is definitely a thing. When you add in gender judicial bias you end with a tap on the wrist for a most egregious crime.
The first article doesn't primarily address racial disparities within the context of gender. The second one, which does, notes pronounced leniency for white women vs. women of other races. As a woman, you are between 12-30% less likely to receive probation instead of incarceration if you aren't white. Where things were roughly equal is if you are being incarcerated, which is more likely if you're not white as noted above, you are likely to get a roughly equivalent period of incarceration for an equivalent crime. All of these outcomes will be significantly worse if you're a man.
That is apparently determined at sentencing in Kentucky.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=45774
So blame the judge.
Anyone else getting serious larval-stage-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene vibes from this mug shot or just me?
I'm getting "crazy ex girlfriend" vibes from her. The type that would fake a pregnancy, break out your car windows, and stalk you for years after the fact.
I'm very confused here. She is white, pretty, and went before a Kentucky Judge. How was she sentenced to anything?
~/s~
How rich is her father?
You're asking the right questions. Not rich enough, apparently
I guess he was rich enough for 150 slurs, but she had to cross the limit.
However, Spring said after the plea hearing that she did not believe Rosing was remorseful.
Yeah, I can look at that mugshot and tell she's not. Glad (and surprised) she got actual punishment.
Edit: I'm making the assumption that's the reflection of a bright orange jumper I see at the bottom of the photo, and the typical blandly colored cinderblock wall in the background.
That is the sort of smug little smirk that says, "that n- deserved what she got." No remorse at all.
💯
When is she gonna be invited to headline a Trump rally?
It's like 4 minutes of straight up repeating the n-word. Besides her racism, how fucked up she was to vomit out that long of a manifesto?
Who counted the N words
Hopefully lawyers that can fine her separately for each and every one.
Good. I remember seeing that video back when this all happened and she’s a vile piece of shit.
All that hideousness and just gets a year of jail and 100 hours of community service. Fucking Kentucky pantywaist conservative judge.
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