
About this episode
This episode discusses the disparities in the justice system based on race and socioeconomic status, particularly in cases of sexual assault involving young men.
This episode is about the two different justice systems that exist: one for clean-cut, well-off white boys and men, and another for the rest of us. This topic was spurred on by Judge Nicholas Rowland’s devastatingly lenient sentencing of three teenage boys in the U.K. on May 21st — but this is, infuriatingly and unconscionably — nothing new. Start paying attention to cases like these, and there’s no missing it. We talked about assault in a straightforward way because sadly, it is a fact of life. We’d love for that to change. When girls and women accuse “upstanding” young white men of rape — men like Brock Turner, Jesse Mack Butler, Mason Lee Gipson, Christopher Belter , Reuben Vanstiphout, Steven van de Velde , and Jacob Walter Anderson to name a few — judges will focus on their “promise and potential”, leaving the girls or women in the courtroom (and the ones watching from elsewhere), to wonder about the intrinsic value of their own lives, and if there might be anything special about the future that lies ahead of them . You wouldn’t think so listening to these judges, or looking at the sentences they give out. Media rags will describe these violent young men as “ baby-faced ”…
People in this episode
Host: Ally Hamilton
Topics covered
- justice system
- inequality
- sexual assault
- media representation
- sentencing disparities
Keywords
- justice system
- inequality
- sexual assault
- sentencing
- media portrayal
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