Public Shaming

The news out of Steubenville today is a *small step* in the right direction for a town that seems to be plagued with cover-ups in an attempt to save their beloved football team. Two young men were sentenced to juvenile detention in the Steubenville rape case today. I suggest you look up what they put the victim through if you are not familiar with the story. Anyway, as per usual when the internet discusses rape, there’s some pretty horrible stuff online today.

Take it away, Twitter…

And Conservative news website, Breitbart, would like you to focus on how evil Anonymous is (because they helped bring much of what happened in Steubenville to light):

And over on Reddit, a number of comments posted to the more mainstream subreddits had to be quickly downvoted…

And over on Facebook, folks seemed to focus on trying their hardest to blame the victim and her being drunk. Here’s a small sample…

(Update: There’s so many, I just put up a second post HERE.)