# 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:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-privileged-white-kid-gets-6-months-for-rape-father-describes-it-as-20-minutes-of-action/756733/673 "2017-07-12T16:36:08Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> This is a meaningless nitpick. It’s felony sexual assault. That along with the actual description of what he did is legitimately described as rape in casual conversation, even if that’s not what the formal criminal charge is titled.
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> I don’t know why you use that tone of exasperation. It’s not like what he did or what he was charged with is significantly less reprehensible than what “rape” signifies in your mind, whether defined by law or not.
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> He is an actual rapist, for _fuck’s sake_.

Its not a nitpick when the question being discussed is the propriety of a judicial ruling which is what you do in your post. It was not about “casual conversation”. And the fact that you insist upon using it (besides once again displaying your proclivity for jumping onto every trendy bandwagon, leaving your otherwise considerable sense behind) means that you are not discussing the issue in its proper context.

Also, rape (which he was not convicted for) is absolutely more reprehensible than assault; same way causing Grievous Bodily Harm is more reprehensible than simple battery despite both being very properly crimes, with the attendant differences in sanctions.

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