For people on screen readers: "How these long-standing liberal principles governing rehabilitation and childhood misconduct should be applied to Coleman’s election victory as an adult present interesting and important questions. So, too, does his background: if we say we want
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more candidates from working-class and impoverished families running for political office — as we should — do we make allowances for the fact that deprived childhoods often produce aberrant behavior as a child that are not common among those from more privileged backgrounds?
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After all, the British Journal of Psychiatry documented in 2014: 'Poverty or low socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood is a well-known distal risk factor for subsequent criminal and substance misuse behaviours.' "
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So very close to making a decent point about how the law is constructed to harm poor people moreso than rich people... and yet so very far.
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I feel like rich kids get away with a lot more sexual predation than poor kids, though...
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I like how he's an adult now to contrast to what he did as a child. But if he were do do something else bad now or in five or ten years he'd be a misguided kid again.
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He threatened to blackmail his opponent in the primaries, so he's still doing it.
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Greenwald or Grim?
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