We can probably compare and contrast the case of Aaron Coleman with that of Alvin Greene, just ten years ago Alvin Greene, like Coleman, was ALSO a creepy weirdo who won an upset in the primariesagainst the Dem establishment candidate, for one of South Carolina's senate seats
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The South Carolina Democrats groomed Vic Rawl, a Charleston city councilman, as their best shot to unseat Jim DeMint. He ended up losing by over thirty thousand votes to Alvin Greene, an absolute rando who raised no money, had no events, had no campaign website
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When Greene won, it was absolutely inexplicable. But the one thing everybody was suddenly certain of was that he hadn't won the election on his own merits. Rawl's people insisted the election had been tampered with, that there were irregularities in all the districts Greene won
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That Greene was possibly a Republican plant, designed to sabotage the South Carolina Democrats' chance of claiming a senate seat Other pundits suggested explanations even MORE unflattering to the SC electorate; that Greene had won because the ballot listed him alphabetically
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Or the surely not-at-all racist explanation that South Carolinians mistook Alvin Greene for soul singer The Reverend Al Green There was no rationalization for his victory that did not paint voters as either deceived, apathetic, or profoundly imbecilic
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And, you know, not entirely unfoundedly, because Alvin Greene was, in point of fact, a weirdo He paid the $10,400 filing fee from a personal check rather than a campaign account, didn't attend the Dem convention, just kind of showed up, filed and vanished
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And also, like Aaron Coleman, Alvin Greene was, as I said, a creep He was facing felony obscenity charges because at a computer lab in the USC campus he looked up bunch of porn and insistently goaded a female student to look at it Also tried to get into her dorm room
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Though it says a lot that the fact that he was facing obscenity charges for this—which is considerably less contemptible than Coleman's myriad transgressions—whereas the latter walks around scot-free with no fear for his freedom really goes to show a lot about Coleman's privilege
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Tbf when you're 14 or younger it's very unlikely you'll get actual criminal charges against you for anything you do, unless you actually kill someone
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Well, I don't know how much of a given that would be for a 14yo Alvin Greene but this is a good point
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