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Originally Posted by CarolinaPhi
Do you think that the roommate would have still made the video & streamed it live if he had been having sex with a girl instead?
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Only the roommate will know that for sure but, honestly, if he's sick enough to do this then I think the answer is yes. Roommate may have just been an @$$ bordering on pathological and he could very well be twisted enough to destroy someone's life regardless of orientation. The fact that the guy was gay could have just been another thing to pick at, not the sole motivator for the crime.
My problem is not with calling the video streaming a hate crime, it may have been. My problem is with this:
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Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay rights group Garden State Equality said in a statement Wednesday that his group considers Clementi's death a hate crime.
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Several articles have listed the boy's suicide itself as the hate crime. I disagree. The roommate and the girl did something absolutely vile, twisted, and WRONG and they should be punished harshly for what they did. It's totally heartbreaking and I hope they get the book thrown at them. But only for what THEY did. Even if he felt like he had no other choice, the boy chose suicide as a way to deal with his humiliation and no one else is responsible for his choice. Just the same as whatever may have happened between those two (whether the boy pissed his roommate off or ever did anything to him), the boy could never be responsible for "provoking" his roommate to do something so heinous. I believe I said the same thing about the Irish teen who hung herself after being bullied at school.
ETA: From the last reports I've heard, the boy found in the water hadn't even been identified as Clementi's and he is still considered "missing." Has that changed?