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Last week, Chris Christie said of the two college students who posted images of their roommate, Tyler Clementi, on the internet, shortly before Clementi's suicide, "I don't know how those two folks are going to sleep at night."
Maybe this was a hate crime. Maybe it was just the utterly thoughtless actions of two individuals who couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong. But what is certain is that Christie, whose election almost certainly defeated the marriage equality bill in NJ, "felt in his gut that marriage should be between a man and a woman. He even tried to think of it differently, he said, and it just didn't fit."
It just didn't fit. Well, something about Tyler Clementi "didn't fit" for Dharun Ravi and Michelle Wei, either, which is why they felt justified violating his privacy by posting a romantic encounter online. Intolerance doesn't have to be wearing a white hood or frothing at the mouth. Simple quiet statements of disgust, and the timidity of our elected leadership to stand up, not only for what "fits" but also for what is right, create the environment in which individuals like Ravi and Wei can ruin a young man's life just by trying to be "funny." |
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