watching the leftism leaving peoples bodies when you point out the sex offender registry is a grotesque violation of human rights
the only reason the registry exists is because we culturally view sexual crimes as inherently more evil and unforgivable than any other kind of violence. people are more willing to believe that a murder can grow and change than a flasher. if you’re woke enough to believe that ‘innocence’ is a fascist concept and sex is just another thing the body can do, then you should believe the corollary: hurting someone with your genitals is no different from hurting them with your fists
and yet, murderers and other violent offenders do not have their full names, faces, and addresses put on a public database for the rest of their lives. there is no such thing. they are not legally barred from watching movies containing violence, or owning imagery containing violence
in my state, sex offender probation means you can be searched, at any time, without a warrant, and owning a copy of playboy is a violation. it means you’ll be arrested if a family member comes to stay with you and you don’t register their vehicle with the sheriff. the dehumanization is beyond the pale
Multiple people have brought up the point that the sex offender registry disproportionately targets marginalized people and is used to criminalize the existence of queers, etc. That is true, and it's important to know, but, I cannot stress enough:
This post is about rapists.
The sex offender registry is not bad because innocent people are on it. It is bad because it is a gross abuse of human rights. Rapists are human beings. They deserve human rights. They deserve privacy. They deserve free access to media. They deserve the opportunity to grow and change.
Too many of you are only interested in protecting Unperson's rights as a means to protect Good People's rights, and it shows.
Rape is a choice. There is no circumstance where raping another person is justified.
You somehow seem to be living in a world where the average rapist is treated like Brock Turner, the rapist, and is known by everyone and is socially excluded as such. The world most people live in is one where tens of thousands of rape kits go unprocessed and offenders continue hurting people in their community with impunity. A world where Donald Trump, one of the most powerful world leaders, was caught on tape bragging about about sexually abusing women and got 62,985,106 votes the year that tape resurfaced and the whole presidency. Because hurting women, raping women is not a deal breaker for at least sixty million people in the United States. And ultimately a world where less than 10% of all rapists face any type of accountability through the criminal justice system.
Most rapists already have privacy, free access to media, "the opportunity to grow and change." They only seem to take advantage of the first two things though, funny that.
