# Stupid Privileged White Kid Gets 6 Months for Rape, Father describes it as "20 minutes of action"

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**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733 "2016-06-07T14:12:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/161 "2016-06-09T17:36:48Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> There’s no shade of grey whatsoever. Either a person wants to fuck you, or they don’t. If they don’t but do when plied with drinks, then taking advantage of it is rape. Simple and clear line.  
> So how do you know the difference ? You take them home, put them in bed and sleep on the couch or call them in the morning. Again, simple.

That’s ridiculous. There’s obviously not a clear line. Here’s a scale:

1: Your partner is stone cold sober and explicitly gives full verbal and written consent for every act  
2: Your partner has had a glass of wine and gives verbal consent to have sex in general  
3: Your partner has had two glasses of wine and initiates sex, but no discussion of consent occurs

…  
…

98: Your partner turned you down for sex, then you kept getting them beers with the conscoius and malicious intent of getting them drunk enough that they would verbally consent to sex in their drunken state  
99: Your partner turned you down for sex, then you kept getting them beers with the conscious and malicious intent of getting them drunk enough that you could rape their unconscious body  
100: Your partner turned you down for sex, then you roofied them and raped their unconscious body  
1 is absolutely clearly not rape. 100 absolutely clearly is. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be cases in the middle there where reasonable people can disagree about whether it’s rape, or “how much” it’s rape (if that makes any sense).  
Claiming that there’s an unambiguous bright line dividing rape from not-rape when inebriation is involved is just silly.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/162 "2016-06-09T18:05:45Z")

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> [@TroutMan](#):
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> “I’ve lost two jobs solely based on the reporting of my case.”

Like I said, he might as well just be honest and say “I’m sorry I got caught.” It’s not like we need a Captain Crunch Decoder Ring to glean this message from the stuff he _does_ say.

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**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/163 "2016-06-09T18:58:53Z")

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> [@dasmoocher](#):
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> To write an essay
> 
> Do all college admissions require essays nowadays?
> 
> I had jock preferences back in the day in the 80’s–including Ivy and service academy sports interests, as in personal letters from head coaches. But, I was also a National Merit Semi-Finalist and I had the SAT scores. I don’t remember ever being asked to write an essay for my application. Although, I only applied to a school I was guaranteed to get into. Basically, because they were the number one ranked school in my sport of preference.
> 
> I’m curious who looked at this swimmer closely enough for him to get into Stanford–a very respectable school.

Yes, essays are required (and Stanford required them back in the 80s when I applied). I had to write for every school, and my child had to write for last year’s admissions cycle as well.

Interviews were required for most schools, though not for Stanford. Stanford is doing interviews now, and they are done by alumni (they keep asking me to do them, I am too busy posting on the Dope).

Again - good luck picking that up in the cycle.

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/164 "2016-06-09T19:05:39Z")

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> [@DesertDog](#):
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> So, for almost 10 years you’ve only have sex with your wife when you or she or both of you are drunk? Pity.

That’s not what I said, but it doesn’t matter, perhaps that’s how we like to fuck. Drinking and screwing are both legal. Rape is a morally repugnant action and **MsRobyn** ’s absurd position isn’t defensible.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/165 "2016-06-09T19:49:20Z")

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I’m sure most rapes could be characterized as “20 minutes of action,” more or less . . . from the rapist’s POV. From the victim’s POV it’s that 20 minutes plus a lifetime of remembering it (if she can).

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/166 "2016-06-09T20:16:21Z")

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Just want to offer that maybe this judge IS an incompetent douchebag, prejudiced in favor of his alma mater.

I’ll offer the slim possibility, however, that maybe he just fucked up this judgment call out of countless judgment calls he makes in his career.

If he’d let him off with probation, hells yeah, I’d be with you. But a felony conviction, 6 months, and sex offender status - while you think it insufficient, it ain’t nothing. I’m curious - what do folk feel WOULD have been an appropriate sentence? I’m serious. Sentencing guidelines and practices have always stricken me as odd, and often not well proportionate to the acts committed.

I tend to think the sentence somewhat light, but I’m not sure exactly what sentence I think would have been appropriate. I’ll certainly agree that the judge got this one wrong. But must of us occasionally get something not perfect in our jobs. Unless I knew more about this judge’s sentencing practices over time, this one sentence is not enough for me to accuse him of more.

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/167 "2016-06-09T20:59:55Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Cite? I mean, if this is legally true, then something like 99.99999% of rapes are going unreported.

[You asked, I deliver.](http://statelaws.findlaw.com/california-law/california-rape-laws.html)

> [@Overview of California's rape law](#):
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> Intoxication by alcohol or drugs impaired the victim’s ability to consent. The defendant knew or reasonably should have known about the victim’s impairment.

California, BTW, has a [“yes means yes”](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/29/352482932/california-enacts-yes-means-yes-law-defining-sexual-consent) consent law, meaning that someone has to give clear consent to having sex.

If you and your spouse/significant other/whoever go out, have a few beers/glasses of wine/drinks and bump uglies after, have a good time since you’re probably expecting to do it. If you decide to fuck someone at a party who’s too drunk to stand up, it’s rape no matter how you slice it.

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**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/168 "2016-06-09T21:10:28Z")

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For those looking for more sources of information on this case:

-Stanford Daily (student newspaper): [http://goo.gl/SZLz8b](http://goo.gl/SZLz8b)  
-Stanford News (official university publication) statement Jan '15: [https://goo.gl/VeAvyS](https://goo.gl/VeAvyS)  
-The DA’s complaint: [http://goo.gl/nh4NpD](http://goo.gl/nh4NpD)  
-Palo Alto Online: [http://goo.gl/KZthUh](http://goo.gl/KZthUh)  
-Other Palo Alto Online coverage of the trial (many links): [https://goo.gl/e4nloa](https://goo.gl/e4nloa)  
-San Jose Mercury News story verdict: [http://goo.gl/9dG2UZ](http://goo.gl/9dG2UZ)  
-Turner’s statement to the judge: [http://goo.gl/5b9mfc](http://goo.gl/5b9mfc)  
-Turner’s father’s statement: [http://goo.gl/j3dwfL](http://goo.gl/j3dwfL)  
-Victim’s impact statement: [https://goo.gl/y9tTLA](https://goo.gl/y9tTLA)  
-San Jose Mercury News story on 6-month sentence: [http://goo.gl/bU2MUe](http://goo.gl/bU2MUe)  
-DA’s statement on 6-month sentence: [https://goo.gl/Rw1rTu](https://goo.gl/Rw1rTu)  
-Stanford statement on the sentence: [https://goo.gl/Y6gl6Z](https://goo.gl/Y6gl6Z)  
-Stanford statement on sexual violence after sentencing: [https://goo.gl/A3gjZx](https://goo.gl/A3gjZx)  
-Stanford fact sheet on combating sexual violence: [https://goo.gl/uB9I3E](https://goo.gl/uB9I3E)  
-DA’s statement on petition to recall the judge: [https://goo.gl/mXkmIF](https://goo.gl/mXkmIF)  
-Stanford Daily story on protest planned for graduation: [http://goo.gl/TLbYKW](http://goo.gl/TLbYKW)

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/169 "2016-06-09T22:19:54Z")

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> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> [You asked, I deliver.](http://statelaws.findlaw.com/california-law/california-rape-laws.html)
> 
> California, BTW, has a [“yes means yes”](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/29/352482932/california-enacts-yes-means-yes-law-defining-sexual-consent) consent law, meaning that someone has to give clear consent to having sex.
> 
> If you and your spouse/significant other/whoever go out, have a few beers/glasses of wine/drinks and bump uglies after, have a good time since you’re probably expecting to do it. If you decide to fuck someone at a party who’s too drunk to stand up, it’s rape no matter how you slice it.

Okay, but that’s not what you said earlier, nor what I was talking about. The times I blacked out, I was not too drunk to stand up according to multiple witnesses. It’s about whether the memory is stored. Researching it some more, it appears that it’s genetic (some people are more likely than others to black out), and has partly to do with how quickly the BAC level rises, rather than how high it is. So one person can be visibly drunker than the other, but the less drunk-seeming person doesn’t remember a period of an hour or two the next day.

ETA: That California law, which goes way too far IMO, appears to be for college campus policy, not for the legal definition of rape as a criminal matter.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/170 "2016-06-10T09:13:46Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> Claiming that there’s an unambiguous bright line dividing rape from not-rape when inebriation is involved is just silly.

Since we’re talking one-night stands and party hookups, the line is absolutely clear : you don’t know how that person reacts to alcohol (I know at least one girl who can’t walk straight after a lone pint), you don’t even know how much they’ve had before, and keeping it in your pants for one night is hurting who exactly ?! If there’s the least bit of doubt, you don’t do it, period. There’ll always be some doubt in a wild party setting where booze or drugs are in the mix. So you don’t do it. Simple as that. And you \*especially \*don’t do it when it’s quite obvious they’re lit up.

The sitch is obviously not the same with a regular partner, or a person you already know is otherwise very much into you (e.g. a shy guy/gal who plucked up the liquid courage and/or excuse) etc… But a random hook-up ? Play it safe and gentlemanly, for their sake as much as your own.

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/171 "2016-06-10T10:07:17Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Since we’re talking one-night stands and party hookups, the line is absolutely clear : you don’t know how that person reacts to alcohol (I know at least one girl who can’t walk straight after a lone pint), you don’t even know how much they’ve had before, and keeping it in your pants for one night is hurting who exactly ?! If there’s the least bit of doubt, you don’t do it, period. There’ll always be some doubt in a wild party setting where booze or drugs are in the mix. So you don’t do it. Simple as that. And you \*especially \*don’t do it when it’s quite obvious they’re lit up.
> 
> The sitch is obviously not the same with a regular partner, or a person you already know is otherwise very much into you (e.g. a shy guy/gal who plucked up the liquid courage and/or excuse) etc… But a random hook-up ? Play it safe and gentlemanly, for their sake as much as your own.

So let’s just be clear. You are essentially saying that millions of college students and other young people are raping each other every weekend. Not only that, but male and female, they are _planning their weekends around_ raping and being raped. Which also means that the many thousands of “meet market” bars–whose whole _raison d’être_ is to provide a venue for people to go and get drunk and “hook up” with other drunk people they just met–have a business model oriented around facilitating violent criminal activity. (Plus of course the many more thousands of keg parties, but most of those are already breaking the law by serving minors.)

I’m not saying this assertion can’t possibly have any merit, but it _is_ an extraordinary claim–and you should own it as such.

ETA: Some gay people might even argue that this moral standard is particularly judgemental against male gay culture. Another thing to think about.

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/172 "2016-06-10T11:07:19Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> That’s not what I said, but it doesn’t matter, perhaps that’s how we like to fuck. Drinking and screwing are both legal. Rape is a morally repugnant action and **MsRobyn** ’s absurd position isn’t defensible.

I apologize for the snark. I would put, though, there is a difference between a couple in a long-time committed relationship and a couple, at least one of which doesn’t know the other’s name, who just met at a party. Further, I’d bet if your wife overshot a bit and was totally unconscious, activities would cease and you sure as hell wouldn’t be dragging her out back by the dumpster.

Drinking and driving are both legal; in combination, not so much.

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/173 "2016-06-10T14:13:00Z")

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> [@Merneith](#):
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> It’s true that she was found with bruises and pine needles inside her.

Do you have a cite? I tried googling Brock Turner and pine needles and all I got were some stories about witches casting a hex on him involving pine needles.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/174 "2016-06-10T14:16:15Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> Do you have a cite? I tried googling Brock Turner and pine needles and all I got were some stories about witches casting a hex on him involving pine needles.

I know there was mention of it in her impact statement. Several times, in fact.

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**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/175 "2016-06-10T14:25:46Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> [Recalling this judge will lead to harsher sentences for Black and Latino criminals](http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/06/08/should-an-unpopular-sentence-in-the-stanford-rape-case-cost-a-judge-his-job/judicial-recall-will-inevitably-lead-to-harsher-sentences)
> 
> Huh. I’m conflicted, **I think he does have a point** , but I’m not sure people should avoid the consequences of poor actions even for the greater good.

Whelp, I don’t.  
I think his reasoning is just plumb ass-backwards.

Per the article:

> [@](#):
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> **Paul Butler :** But if bias in favor of white defendants was grounds for disqualification, this country would face a severe shortage of judges and prosecutors. Angela Jordan Davis, former head of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, writes that “There was a running joke in the office that any lawyer who could not get a good deal for a white client should turn in his license to practice law.”

Isn’t that exactly why the public needs to stand up and demand a change? That is a disgraceful state of affairs that needs to be properly addressed and changed, not joked about.

> [@](#):
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> \*\*Paul Butler : \*\* The message sent by a recall would be that before an elected judge hands down a sentence, she should think about how popular her decision will be with the public.  
> This would inevitably lead to harsher punishment because, politically, it’s always safer for a judge to throw the book at a convicted criminal rather than give him a break – even when giving him a break is the right thing to do.

No, if done properly, it would lead to \*fairer \*sentences and no more easy breaks for criminals from the privileged classes.

> [@](#):
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> **Paul Butler :** The people who would suffer most from this punitiveness would not be white boys at frat parties. Almost 70 percent of the people in prison in California are Latino and African-American. Those are the groups that would bear the brunt of zealous punishment

But I thought blacks and Latinos already get harsher sentences. How can giving a privileged, snotty-nosed frat-boy rapist a fair punishment for his horrendous crimes somehow mean things will get tougher for those folks who already got the rough end of the stick?

> [@](#):
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> \*\*Paul Butler : \*\*But even when defendants get big time, the pain of their crime is not diminished. The best way to honor survivors is to change the culture and to educate all men to respect women.

And maybe acknowledge the victim as a living, breathing, feeling _person_, and not just treat her as either  
a)　A dainty piece of broken china forever shattered by a cruel monster, or  
b)　A loose floozy who was clearly asking for it  
depending on the class of her assailant.

Or, y’know, what \*\*Kobal2 \*\*said in far fewer words.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/176 "2016-06-10T14:27:15Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> Claiming that there’s an unambiguous bright line dividing rape from not-rape when inebriation is involved is just silly.

Irrelevant; we are discussing a case that clearly falls in the solid black region beyond the vague grey borderlands. It’s like arguing that since the tax code is too complicated for anybody to know for sure exactly what is deductible then the IRS should be OK with me claiming dependent deductions for my cats.

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/177 "2016-06-10T14:46:03Z")

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> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> Irrelevant; we are discussing a case that clearly falls in the solid black region beyond the vague grey borderlands. It’s like arguing that since the tax code is too complicated for anybody to know for sure exactly what is deductible then the IRS should be OK with me claiming dependent deductions for my cats.

I think we all agree about this case, which makes it not all that interesting to discuss. I think my tangential question gives us more to chew the fat over.

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**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/178 "2016-06-10T15:02:14Z")

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> [@WilyQuixote](#):
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> I was enjoying reading this pitting of an over privileged and entitled turd who received a shockingly light sentence.
> 
> But no rape discussion thread on the internet is ever complete until someone raises the “false allegations” boogeyman.

I don’t think either \*\*SlackerInc \*\*or **BPC** are trying to bring the boogeyman of “false allegations” into the discussion/rant.

They are pointing out that issues regarding consent and sex can become grey when any degree of intoxication is involved. That’s precisely why you have judges and juries to interpret grey cases. This does NOT mean that being intoxicated should be a defense against culpability for committing rape, or that a person too intoxicated to say “no” should be considered a willing partner.

In any case, it is irrelevant to the case in point, in which there is no doubt that Brock Turner’s actions were rape, out and out.

So maybe discussion of “booze+sex+(consent?)=grey zone?” would be better suited to GD (although it would probably end up back in the pit before long).  
This is a pitting of a horrible rapist and the people who don’t seem to think his crime is all that bad.

(It seems a few strange creatures have decided, for whatever reason, that this is also a nice placed for them to drop their comically partisan turds. How very odd they are. Let us be careful not to tread in them.)

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/179 "2016-06-10T15:09:25Z")

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> [@faithfool](#):
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> I know there was mention of it in her impact statement. Several times, in fact.

I thought she was talking about the pine needles in her hair not her vagina.

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/180 "2016-06-10T15:15:24Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Cite? I mean, if this is legally true, then something like 99.99999% of rapes are going unreported.

I am told that kids these days use the internet to hook up just as much as my generation used alcohol.

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