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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster talking about how Danny Masterson "only rapes Scientologists" so is not a threat to others (I mean, just the disgustingness of that statement, but anyway) so the sentence is too harsh... You are missing the whole point.

A scientologist cannot turn another scientologist -- especially a celebrity-- into the police. They must go to the church authorities otherwise they will be excommunicated. Danny knew this. That's why scientologists were his target. It was purposeful. Do you understand that?

I recently saw an interview with his ex-step-dad where the guy- who used to be a fixer for Scientology- basically said, Danny was a little mischievous but not some horrible kid.  But when you do something a little wrong, and you get bailed out (by the Church because you are a celeb), you start to see what else you can get away with. And it builds from there.

If you don't understand the nuances and haven't been following this case, please don't come here just to justify sexual assault and call victims liars and say they had it coming. You look moronic.[/quote]

It's instinctual for a lot of people -- just a lot of internalized ideas about perfect victims and who is allowed to receive empathy. The sad thing is that a lot of the people who instinctively look to justify and excuse people like Masterson, and instinctively look to undermine the victims and find some reason to blame them, also probably consider themselves progressives who hate rape and "support women."

So much of this runs really deep in people and they can't see it. They don't even understand what it would look like to actually hold people accountable for behavior like this, so on the very rare occasion when it happens, they instantly jump to "well wait, this is probably going too far" even though this is like the one in a thousand time where there is real accountability for rape and sexual assault.[/quote]

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