• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    Oh I know. It’s disgusting, but it’s the law and you can’t retroactively change it. But they could, at the very least, not let the fucker on their Olympics team.

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      3 months ago

      100% agree. I’m Dutch and he’s sent there to represent me/us/the country, it’s fucking disgusting.

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        3 months ago

        It’s interesting, isn’t it, that none of the people in this thread defending him being on the team seem to be Dutch.

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            3 months ago

            That Dutch people are apparently not as supportive of a child rapist from their country than other people from other countries are.

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              3 months ago

              You, like most people in this thread, are confusing support for a person with support for a form of punishment which is humanitarian and rehabilitative, rather than vengeful and punitive.

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                3 months ago

                How is a year in prison for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl either humanitarian or rehabilitative?

                He called it nonsense. He joked about finding 10-year-olds at this Olympics. He has never made a public apology. Where is the sign rehabilitation?

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                    3 months ago

                    Someone in another thread showed a deleted Instagram post, but I can’t find it now. I suppose it could have been a photoshop or something. Also, I don’t speak Dutch so I could only approximate that’s what it said. Anyway, the rest is definitely true.