Sean Hogg, 21, was found guilty of raping a teenage girl at Dalkeith Country Park in Midlothian, Scotland, when he was 17 years old.
Judge Lord Lake said he had to take Hogg's age into account when sentencing him, meaning he has avoided jail and will have to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work.
The sentencing has sparked outrage among those in the legal and political profession, with Rape Crisis Scotland's CEO Sandy Brindley describing the sentencing as "worryingly lenient".
If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals
I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this
my favourite german phrase will always be "fick dich ins knie", which is used to mean something like "go fuck yourself", but literally translates to "fuck yourself in the knee". the image it conjures is just delightfully nonsensical. like, how would you even go about fucking yourself in the knee? pretty sure that's physically impossible.
the feminine urge to live in 2000s berlin in an altbau wohnung with a mixed group of friends
This!!!!We still haven't gotten an apology for jalian wala bhag (Look up jalian wala bagh massacre for more Info if you dont know about this) not to mention all of the people whose lives changed for the worse during and after the raj.
It honestly pisses me off that nobody really talks about this chapter in british history and that, unless you are from one of the former colonies chances are you know nothing about this.
The British rule did nothing for most if not all and the few advancements they made are nothing in comparison to all the suffering and exploitation that india(ns) were put through.
This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).
Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”
This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.
edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.
Why did it have to be the country of autos and Bürokratie. Why couldn't it be the country of niedrige Lebensmittelpreise und psychische Gesundheit
pls not the Mac d