Comment on Melbourne driver Alisha Fagan, who killed grandfather then blamed crash on 'African men', jailed

• snacksthanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think that questioning her indigenous status here is helpful. Whether that was rightly or wrongly applied as a mitigating factor in her sentence for this particular crime, it’s likely that inter-generational disadvantage played a role in her life. Not an excuse for killing an old guy due to negligence in my opinion though.

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  • snacksthanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guess we’ve got some racists in this space. Probably came across from the aus subreddit, which was toxic as fuck.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree, supporting blatantly false claims of minority status and the soft bigotry of lowered expectations?

      Pretty low.

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