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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch Albom basically says: Sue for financial compensation for rape? Then you are a liar
Absolutely no words.............
http://deadspin.com/mitch-albom-goes-on-espn-to-say-awful-things-about-jame-1756350612
Yesterday, ESPNs The Sports Reportersholy shit! The Sports Reporters is still on?featured wealthy fabulist Mitch Albom discussing the $950,000 settlement Florida State University paid to Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused Jameis Winston of raping her and later sued the university over its indifference to her case. Guess who had remarkably awful things to say? (It was Mitch Albom.)
Heres how Albom started things off:
Id feel a lot happier about this if the woman took that money and gave it to charity and said, Thats not what this was about. I always am suspect when people end up saying, Well, Im going to take it.
This is a legitimately impressive string of compounding inanities. Mitch Alboms personal happiness, Mitch Albom makes clear, is the fair measure of morality in a given situation; his happiness is decreased when people who arent him and about whom he knows nothing dont give their money away; and, further, when they dont give their money away, he finds it suspicious on its face. What hes saying, in so many words, is that Kinsman not giving her settlement to charity makes him think shes a liar who fabricated a story for profit.
The most remarkable thing is how casually this falls out of Alboms face; he just flings it out there like its the most normal thing in the world to say. Thats because for a certain type of asshole, it is a perfectly normal thing to say. Albom has spent his professional career lecturing and chastising anyone who happens to fall into his droopy and dim line of sight when not fabricating stories for profit, and hes not about to let a woman whos lived through a very public and unpleasant rape investigation off the hook. I think wed all feel a lot happier if Mitch would donate his fortune to charity and just fuck off already, but the least he could do is say what he means.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)would be ESPN. Hell, I's watch Fox before that.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Or to fairly represent women's issues!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Even by ESPN standards, those two are truly standout d-bags.