• @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    11323 hours ago

    Describing an 18 year old as a “teen” certainly is a choice. And not one commonly made when the person accused of a crime is black.

    • gimpchrist
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      -7522 hours ago

      An 18-year-old is a teenager. Your brain doesn’t stop developing until mid 20s.

      • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        7422 hours ago

        Yes, teen is literally in the word, but you know that the implication is not “an adult legally responsible for their actions” and the choice of how to describe an alleged criminal is not applied similarly to white and black subjects. A 15 year old black boy will be described as a “black male” while a legally adult white man will be a “teen” until the day of their 20th birthday.

      • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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        6122 hours ago

        That does not matter, by law, he is an adult. The term “teen” is used when under 18 in the news. This is clear bias because of his race.

        • gimpchrist
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          -9722 hours ago

          EighTEEN. He’s a fucking teenager get over it you fucking weirdo

          • @stoly@lemmy.world
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            1015 hours ago

            LOL you’re delving into the typical sorts of pedantics that people turn to when they don’t have an argument. “OOH OOH but Merriam Webster says that ‘teenager’ means blah blah blah” while completely sidestepping the fact that this person is a legal adult and is fully responsible for their actions, which is what the adults in the room are talking about now.

          • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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            1317 hours ago

            Literally just repeating the originally argument instead of responding to the responses. Go fuck yourself.

          • Flying Squid
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            3521 hours ago

            If I told you, “Gary’s fucking a teenager,” I’m guessing you wouldn’t assume that teenager was over 18 and would be thinking maybe the authorities should be contacted.

              • Flying Squid
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                Sorry… you would “absolutely” assume that if I told you that “Gary [i.e. someone we both know on a first-name basis] is fucking a teenager” that the person was of legal age because of a porn category?

                Because I’m pretty sure we don’t mutually know a porn star named Gary.

                This also makes me worried about your feelings on incest.

                • @Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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                  -1719 hours ago

                  Wow wtf is that kind of strawman? Do you not see the basic correlation between “fucking a teenager” and “fucking a teenager in porn”? porn has normalized that fucking a teenager is 18

                  • Flying Squid
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                    Do you not see the basic correlation between “fucking a teenager” and “fucking a teenager in porn”?

                    Yes, the same correlation between “fucking his daughter” and “fucking his daughter in porn.” When you hear Gary’s doing it, you call the fucking cops.

                    Most people are able to distinguish what they see on a screen from reality.

                • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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                  16 hours ago

                  My favorite is when they’re “just turned 18” in one video and “MILF” in the next.

                  They are, of course, not technically mutually exclusive, but one doesn’t normally imagine much overlap between those genres.

          • @escapedgoat@lemmy.world
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            3722 hours ago

            We all get it, the type of porn you watch is still legal even though it has teen in the name.

            This is regarding a legal matter where the man’s sentence will likely be decided by the fact that the court sees him as an adult. In most cases and as the other user pointed out 18 year olds are referred to as men in a legal context. This disturbingly seems to be the standard practice when describing black males of 18.

            Generally speaking, describing alleged criminals as teens implies a lack of legal agency and thus biases the reader toward compassion. The point is that sometimes language can induce bias and consistency is needed. If that consistency falls towards the technicality of having the word teen in their name so be it, but that is not the case with our current media landscape.