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“Because when the college and the police won’t do anything you can use it for your civil suit”

Hilarious segment on The Daily Show last night that looked at the absurd case at James Madison University where frat boys who sexually assaulted a fellow student, filmed it, and then passed the video around to others, were punished only by “expulsion after graduation.”

It was awesome Stewart took time out to talk about this specific case, but what comedian Jessica Williams did in the silly then sad skit on The Daily Show, was walk through the reality of what women have to do to protect ourselves.  The audience laughed… uncomfortably.  I watched wishing it was as absurd as it should have been. But this is the new America. Watch:

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Graduating Upon Completing the Indoctrination

When graduating from Coxsackie-Athens High School in 2010, the valedictorian Erica Goldson, made the speech that we all know is true about the state of education, schools, and the future of our generation. Well now, brilliant cartoonist Gavin Aung Than has re-created the speech in true artistry:

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(a version of this appeared on BNR)

 

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