Rutgers Student Suicide

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Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:56:41 +0000

Let me fully spell out what I mentioned last week, which is this: I don’t need to know if Ravi and Wei can be held legally responsible for Tyler Clementi’s death in order to feel perfectly confident saying that they are f’ing a-holes. I don’t need to know if their motivations were specifically homophobic to feel confident saying they are f’ing a-holes. I don’t need to ever meet them or speak with them to feel confident saying they are f’ing a-holes. Because I know they both participated in the filming of two people engaging in sexual activity without those people’s consent, and then invited other people to watch it. And if you do that, YOU ARE A F’ING A-HOLE. Always and forever.



I can’t disagree with that sentiment.

But, the public still doesn’t really know what led to Clementi’s suicide. If proof emerges that he has been bullied and victimized long before all this happened, then the gay community would hardly be at fault for using Clementi’s suicide as a rallying call.

This is a case of invasion of privacy, not a case of bullying.