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Perhaps it is the circles I run in. I don’t know. I read about 200 periodicals [online and offline] each day, and I hear more about applications being rejected than people who are falsely incarcerated, or people who have been harmed irreparably by accusation. It isn’t like the people who are denied for one reason or another can’t resubmit and potentially land on another reviewer who didn’t fall out of the idiot tree. These are applications, on one platform. But the hub bub about a political satirist being denied because of his ridicule of political figures pales in comparison to people who have been falsely imprisoned.
Can we put this in perspective?
Take “The Innocence Project” an organization that attempts to right the wrongs of the falsely imprisoned. Their About Page says the following:
“The Innocence Project (“IP”) was established in 1992 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law by civil rights attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld and is dedicated to exonerating the innocent through post-conviction DNA testing. Since its inception, more than 240 people in the United States have been exonerated, including 17 who were at one time sentenced to death. In many of these DNA exonerations, the Innocence Project either was the attorney of record or consulted with the defendant’s attorneys. Our unique combination of science, law, and social justice has created a cohesive and powerful program for individual freedom and policy reform.”
I know this is a technology based blog, but at some point, you really have to step back and look at the bigger picture. 17 people were sentenced to death based on bad data.
Lets lighten up about applications being denied there is a lot worse happening in the world and… you aren’t sentenced to death.
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