Comment on Canada Judge Openly Sentences Based on Race in Statutory Rape Case
running_ragged@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“We know that as a Métis-Cree woman that Ms. Dodding has a greater chance of being physically, violently, emotionally and spiritually victimized. The information I have confirms that she has experienced incredible trauma in her life, which is not her fault,” Judge Alexander Wolf wrote in a recent decision out of Port Alberni.
“It concludes that Ms. Dodding’s personal Indigenous sentencing factors, as well as all the other sentencing considerations in general, support (a) four-year sentence. However, I believe the sentence does not adequately address concerns particular to her circumstances as an Indigenous, or in this case, Métis-Cree, woman. In my view, after having considered all the circumstances of this case, I conclude that a three-year sentence of jail is appropriate.”
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You’ve copy pasted rhe article as if it should convince me this judge isn’t just racist?
running_ragged@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, because your clickbait version of the summary made it sound like it was about race and not looking specifically at this person’s history and trauma and accounting for that in the sentencing.
When a broken society victimizes individuals, and they grow up broken and perpetuate that, punishing them harder doesn’t fix anything.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
He literally just said that she is “more likely” to have trauma or whatever because of her race. He doesn’t even seem interested in something that did or didnt happen to her personally. These are just a few magic words that justify his very plain racism.
running_ragged@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, he literally didn’t just say that. He went on to say: “ The information I have confirms that she has experienced incredible trauma in her life, which is not her fault,”
Which was included in the short bit I copied earlier, and you just glossed over. Stop looking only at the parts that confirm the lies that you have been told.