
Originally Posted by
sonatine
Taking an anomaly and re-packaging it as a statistically significant trend to claim that some sort of liberal agenda is conspiring to defang the nations capacity for justice is pure alt-right podcast trollatics 101. The hysteria and hyperbole youre relying on to prop up your assertion and drown out more rational, educated voices is thirsty and boorish.
Nothing is conspiring to defang the nation's capacity for justice.
Liberals stupidly believe that a judge -- a sole individual with possible biases and other emotional frailties -- should be able to supersede carefully thought out laws and their associated punishments.
It was originally intended to provide leniency cases where mitigating circumstances made the crime much less evil than it appears on paper.
However, it has since been abused by many a renegade judge who simply wanted to give a light sentence to a defendant who deserved much more, because.... well, he felt like it.
We have the conservative interpretation of sentencing which states that everyone should get a mandatory minimum appropriate sentencing for a serious violent felony, regardless of race, social class, and ability to afford good representation.
Then we have the liberal interpretation which says that a judge can decide willy-nilly to give one rapist 6 months in prison because he's lily white and twinkish, while giving 10 years to the scary-looking black dude who did the same thing.
Funny enough, it's the liberals claiming that they are trying to achieve a justice system which is truly blind to color and social class.
Clearly not.
Brock Turner is not the first one to get a ridiculously light sentence for a heinous crime, thanks to a renegade judge. This problem has existed since before we were born, and it will continue to exist.
It will continue to exist for as long as left-wingers such as yourself cast these concerns as "extremist" or "exaggerated anomalies", without looking to the very real and unfair reason these anomalies can occur in the first place.