Purely out of curiosity...

[John Bailey]

As someone who works in the media I'd suggest you don't trust the
reporting on this story too much. Compare: that big recent shaming of
the "world's worst aunt" who sued her pre-teen nephew for $127,000
after he hugged her and she fell over and broke her wrist. The real
story there was about US healthcare and the fact that she couldn't
receive any support unless she sued him, which she didn't want to do
(apparently, allegedly, etcly).

IMHO you don't go for $15 million damages because you've suffered $15
million worth of damage. You go for it because of complicated and
arcane legal counsel that is WAY too boring for journalists to dig
into when they could just go for the easy clickbait instead.
Seriously, which story are you going to read?


On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly don't anymore. Even if he had been grievously maligned, $15
> million is a pretty obscene expectation.
>
> On 11 Dec 2015 10:29, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> He doesn't deserve fiteen million dollars and won't get it. I' m glad he
>> is moving happily enough.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > On Dec 11, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > ...does anybody on the P-List still think Ahmed the Clock Boy is a
>> > totally innocent victim of brutally racist teachers who deserves 15 million
>> > dollars for the torture of being kept from his mommy and daddy for 85
>> > minutes?
>> >
>> > Just curious if any of my fellow Pynchon fans are as disturbed by the
>> > cult-like, knee-jerk, quasi-Pavlovian, ignore-all-contrary-evidence, Social
>> > Justice Warrior conga line that has emerged on this topic.
>> >
>> > Seems to me a lot of my leftier-than-thou friends are acting like Fox
>> > News conservatives, only in the ideological equivalent of photo-negative...
>> > I mean, I count myself as a proud liberal, but I have to draw the line at
>> > fucking lying to myself.
>> >
>> > Mark T.
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