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Medical student convicted of raping another student escapes sentence as “He is young and talented” (www.vrt.be)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

bit short on details and context

That is the litteral definition of rage bait. Leaving out details and context to just tell people what they should feel. It doesen't matter if it's on a subject matter I would otherwise be in support of or not. It's fucked up.

If you have a good point to make, you can make it proper. Doing it with rage bait is a fucked up way to profit from a tragedy while undermining real progress on solving the underlying problem by fucking with people's trust. This is performative bullshit that grand standers do to make a buck off something, while causing more harm in the long term.

And I did read the PDF you linked after translating it, and that only verified how rage baity that article was written (at least their English version in the op link). Here it is in English for anyone else who wants to see: https://imgur.com/a/CeM1VDi