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Who Killed Tyler Clementi?

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In George Orwell's 1984, the people mediated daily on the State's declared enemies. During the Two Minute Hate, party members would scream at enemies flashed before them. Tyler Clementi's suicide is our latest Two Minute Hate. We hate his roommate, an 18-year-old who turned on the webcam in Clementi's room. Clementi's roommate wanted to out Clementi as a homosexual, perhaps. Though more deeply the roommates goal was to shame him. Clementi's roommate was an 18-year-old boy. Although 18 is old enough to die in Iraq, 18 is not a man. An 18-year-old brain isn't fully developed. Most of us - especially we males - who are free and successful people are free and successful because of luck. The stupid shit we didn't have consequences. We embarrassed and ridiculed people, or we joined the mobs in laughing at others unlike us...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 03, 2010 (boomark / email).

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