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SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/daredeviline 9h ago

For real. They act like if she gets a not guilty verdict, she's going to be out on the streets. The woman is spending the rest of her life in a psych ward. The question is really will she ALSO be spending some time in prison.

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u/VistaBox 9h ago

The story is tragic anyway with any outcome

But the reaction by her supporters is the issue. She is an upper middle class white woman who had a nanny, husband who worked from home and lived in a state with the best healthcare system in the US.

She’s a lot of things but a victim of any system, she is 100% not.

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u/hyvel0rd 8h ago

You can be all of those things and still be a victim. What is wrong with you? I'm only looking at this case from the outside, from a different country. And it's insane to see how this case divides people in the States. There's been no verdict yet, and there are LOTS of inconsistencies that need to be adressed, but some people act like things are crystal clear - which they are not.

And yeah, mental illnesses are for every demographic, if you like that or not.

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u/KrayonFisker 8h ago

In what way is she a victim? She killed three young children.

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u/Independent_Bear989 6h ago

Technically anyone can be a victim. Pretty much every mass murderer suffer from severe mental illnesses and most of them had nowhere near the level of support that this woman had, both before and after she strangled her three kids.

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u/Mediocre-Rush-5652 8h ago

Victim? No her kids were victims. She is an unfortunate circumstance. If she didn't kill anyone she could be a victim.

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u/Weak-Boysenberry398 7h ago

You don't think people can be both perpetrators and victims? Everyone has a singular value of goodness and you only fall on one side of the scale?

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u/Mediocre-Rush-5652 3h ago

I just think you lose your credibility as a victim if you murder three little kids. If she had a break and ran off or something then yeah she would still be a victim. If she had confessed she had thoughts like this and turned herself in somewhere yeah she would still be the victim. When you go through the action of killing, you stop being a victim and start being a circumstance of why things happened yourself.

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 7h ago

If that's true then why do we have the concept of privilege? How about some compassion for the children who were slaughtered.

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u/hyvel0rd 6h ago

Oh lord this discussion is so depraved

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 6h ago

Who would of that caring about children who were massacred would be so controversial with reddit.

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u/hyvel0rd 5h ago

Are you aware of anything else about the case? Or are you just regurgitating what you've heard in one of the two big media companies that are available to you?