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22-year-old David McGreavy from Worcester moved in with his friend, Clive Ralph and his wife, Elsie Ralph, and their three children, 4-year-old Paul, 2-year-old Dawn and 9-month-old Samantha. David had been kicked out of his parents’ home due to his incessant drinking. Clive worked as a lorry driver while Elsie worked as a barmaid. When they went out to work, David would babysit the children. To those around him, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy spending time with the children and acted “like a father” to them.

On Friday the 13th of April, 1973, David went to a local pub and drank several pints of beer. He got into an altercation with a friend after he put his cigarette in his beer. From the pub, David went home to look after the Ralph children while Clive drove to pick up Elsie from work and have a pint. By the time Clive and Elsie arrived back home, the police were already at the house.

As David was looking after the children, Samantha started to cry for her bottle. For reasons unknown, this infuriated David. Instead of reaching for the bottle, David grabbed Samantha and swung her repeatedly again the wall, shattering her skull. He then picked up a razor blade and slit Dawn’s throat before strangling Paul. The most horrifying aspect of the crime came next when David took the lifeless bodies of the children into a neighbour’s garden and impaled their bodies on the spiked gate.

David was apprehended at around 4AM the next morning. He confessed to the gruesome murders claiming the only motivation was that Samantha was crying. He was sentenced to multiple life terms with a minimum of 20 years. During his time in prison, “The Monster of Worcester” was often targeted due to his vicious crimes. He once challenged Ian Brady a fight to prove he was the “most notorious” killer.

In 2006, David was transferred to an open prison and stayed in a hostel in Liverpool. After news of his transfer hit headlines, it was met by outrage; he was transferred back to a closed prison. He is up for parole later in 2018.

morbidology

On the 4th of December, 2018, David McGreavy was cleared for release.

#jesus christ #david mcgreavy #true crime

aw-but-i-didnt-get-you-anything

Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”

Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.

asingularcanadian

Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters. It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.

occamstireiron-deactivated20190

There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:

“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster” The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis” BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.” This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.

(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)

emtmercy

So wild that instead of guidelines online moving towards no kind of body being considered inherently sexual and inappropriate we’ve gone onto like explicitly admitting that it’s the association of a body w womanhood that makes it inappropriate and dirty