The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Godspeed Tyler Clementi

    By oleeb on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 8:21pm |

    I attended graduate school at Rutgers.  Just a few minutes ago, to my great shock and horror, I ran across this news article running at philly.com.  It is difficult for me to grasp the kind of cruelty it would take to do this to someone.  I am just so horrified by this news it is difficult to express fully the range of emotions I feel for this young man and his family.

    May God forbid that such a monsterous, sick act of sadistic humiliation ever happen again to anyone.

    Godspeed to Tyler Clementi, to his family and to his friends.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100929_Rutgers_frosh_taped_having_sex_with_man_feared_dead.html

    Comments

    It's a terrible thing.


    by Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 9:10pm

    I just read a big article on Gawker about this case. I hate seeing these things, he was only 19 and he didn't deserve any of what he got. I thought people were getting better, more accepting, but I forgot, it's easy to be a bully, but it seem so hard to just be a human.


    by tmccarthy0 on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 12:16am

    That this comes on the heels of the death of Billy Lucas, along with the Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell on some homophobic rampage against Chris Armstrong student assembly president at the University of Michigan only shows that as a nation we have so far to go.  For the dominant paradigm, those in the LGBT community remain outside the definition, as Judith Butler would say, of the bodies that matter.  Which means both figuratively and, in our consciousness, literally.  May we find as a nation the compassion that is there, somewhere, in all of us.


    by Elusive Trope on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 9:12am

    Sleep well, kid.


    by quinn esq on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 12:08pm

    Words fail me.


    by we are stardust on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 2:01pm

    Likewise.


    by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 3:19pm

    Very very sad.


    by Richard Day on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 3:03pm

    Teens and young adults in school remember, those who have supported you have sent you there to learn, to earn respect for yourself and your family, to work with and respect others. You are there to provide a fulfilling future for yourself and any family you may have, in a country that will need educated citizens with the initiative to work and succeed at difficult and demanding jobs or professions, and in collaboration with people of many backgrounds and temperaments.

    You are not in school to goof around on youtube or the internet, to do endless text messaging, pull malicious pranks, or embarrass or humiliate any other human being. The two who did this video are a disgrace not only to themselves, but to their families who sent them on to college with high hopes for the future.


    by NCD on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 5:10pm