Brock Turner’s victim has dreams and a future, too: Sympathy for convicted sex offender is grossly misplaced
Like many young, affluent, white men in rape cases, the Stanford swimmer's "potential" inspires twisted defenses Brock Turner Mugshot (Credit: Stanford University Department of Public Safety) You can’t say that the Stanford sexual assault case hasn’t garnered an outpouring of public empathy. It’s just been fascinating to see how much of it has been directed on the now convicted sex offender at the heart of it. You may, if you have been following the story, know that Brock Turner is a felon and future registered sex offender. You may know that earlier this year, a jury found him guilty of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated or unconscious person, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person. And, because we still live in a world in which “white dude” is considered the default human interest angle in a story, you probably also a lot of other things about him. Things that have, ever since the case firs...