"Why is the victim treated as the troublemaker? There is moral laziness, and a deferral to privilege, to tradition, or to one’s own interests, that disguises itself as loyalty, from Williamsburg to South Bend. And there is the illusion that that being community-minded means protecting the strongest, rather than the most vulnerable members of a community."
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Amy Davidson on the sentencing yesterday in Brooklyn of Nechemya Weberman, to one hundred and three years in prison after being found guilt of fifty-nine counts of child sexual abuse:
http://nyr.kr/WV9UxU(Source: newyorker.com)