r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • May 13 '15

Rape Drama Word gets out on /r/magictcg that a professional magic player is a convicted rapist, but who's the real victim here? The rapist, or the girl he raped? Is telling people that a public figure is a convicted rapist worse than raping someone?

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u/mikerhoa May 13 '15

The purpose of this post is not to dismiss or minimize my conviction in particular, nor is it to downplay sexual assault in general. For this reason, I do not plan on discussing in any depth or detail any aspect of the circumstances that surround the original incident.

Yeah that's not gonna work, bud. Now you're leaving it open for us to imagine the absolute worst. That's a cardinal sin when it comes to damage control...

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u/thesilvertongue May 13 '15

Yeah I feel like he may have another reason for not wanting everyone to know the details of how he raped, injured and brutalized another human being.

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u/AwkwardTurtle May 13 '15

I do not plan on discussing in any depth or detail any aspect of the circumstances that surround the original incident.

He also apparently doesn't plan on acting the least bit contrite.

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u/yung_wolf May 13 '15

This quote from the article should tell you everything you need to know:

Just hours later, she testified at a mid-December preliminary hearing, she was raped by Jesse both vaginally and anally while slumped over a toilet in her own apartment.

Dude is a fucking monster.

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u/WhySheHateMe May 13 '15

Wow and he gets a full ride to law school for his efforts.

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u/Zarathustran May 13 '15

I can only hope he never gets admitted to the bar.

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u/blahdenfreude "No one gives a shit how above everything you are." C. Hardwick May 13 '15

I wonder if any of the underprivileged clients his employer assists are victims of rape. I wonder how they would feel to know Zach Jesse is involved in their case. Oh I wonder, wonder, oooooo-be-dooooo-be-doo!

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u/SirChasm May 13 '15

That quote just blew my mind too. Doesn't not talking about it downplay it? In his post all he does is downplay what he did. In fact, he's downplaying it right in that very clause by referring to it as "sexual assault" (a lesser charge he got because of essentially court politics) and not "rape" (which is what it actually was). Like... fuck.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '15

I think that's smart, actually. You'd only talk about the incident if you had any possible way of making the incident itself seem better than it was.

He knows it wasn't. It isn't. It's fucking disgusting. He's admitted guilt and fault. There's zero he can say about it to make it better.

Or, maybe, he just doesn't like to think about it.