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| Tyler Clementi |
Two New Jersey College students, Dharun Ravi and Molley Wei are being charged with invasion of privacy. More specifically, Dharun Ravi had invaded into his roommates personal life and decided to share his roomates secrets with the world through the internet. Tyler Clementi, Dharun's roommate, had asked to have the room to himself until midnight; as claimed by Dharun Ravi. Dharun had set up a webcam in order to spy on his own roommate at his friends room. Dharun had caught everything on tape and had posted it on the internet; he informed the internet about this tape via facebook, twitter and many other sources. The video was sex footage of Tyler and another male that he had brought into his dorm room. After being aware of this, Tyler commited suicide on the George Washington bridge on Sept. 22. Dharun is being fined $25000 and the maximum punishment for either teenagers is going to be 5 years in jail.
This is a prime example of the nationwide problem ; people being criticized for their sexual orientation, ethnicity and religion. Clementi had asked to have the room by himself for a reason; one that his roommate shouldn't have discovered. People hold secrets because they are afraid of discrimination and how others will develope a sense of attitude towards them. While many may argue that no one can force someone to commit suicide and that it was entirely Tyler's decision; it was not true in this case. Dharun and Molly bullied Tyler for his sexual orientation and had shared it with the world, which had pushed Tyler to a point where he can no longer be himself. At this point, it was Dharun and Molly's fault because Tyler had not brought this misfortune upon himself. In addition, I think that the penalty is being taken too lightly; Dharun and Molly deserve more jail time and punishment on top of that. Personally, putting someone in jail for 5 years really isn't going to change their views and transform them into viable citizens of a society.
You are right, 5 years and a 25,000$ fine will never cut it. If only his roomate would take the video offline when asked, tyler would not have kiled himself. That proves was a true ass his roomate is.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very sad story and I am shocked that something like this would happen. He was bullied and it was very sad to read that osmething like this would happen in our world. You would never think of anything like this happening in our lives. I agree with Lyndon. It is a very interesting article.
ReplyDeleteLike Lyndon had explained, this would be a prime example of discrimination. In this case, discrimination towards one's sexual orientation. Now a days, people state that discrimination is something obsolete, a thing of the past. However, this article cleary states otherwise. Even in modern times, discrimination is still very common in today's society, wether it be towards one's race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or religious views. The key point of the article is that it shows to what degree discrimination can impact a person's life. In this case, a talented, young man was embarrassed to such an extent that he would rather die on the spot then live out the rest of his life as a gay.
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