Who still makes fun of gay people? Oh right, college kids in New Jersey.
In what could be known as one of the worst things a roommate could possibly do, a Rutgers freshman, Dharun Ravi, filmed his homosexual roommate, not yet out of the closet, making out with another man and posted it on online.
This led to his roommate Tyler Clementi’s suicide. He jumped off the George Washington Bridge.
Ravi posted the video along with a message saying, “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”
This story’s a real tragedy, and I know I’d most certainly consider killing myself if someone garishly outed me to my entire peer group. It leaves me wondering what the hell is Ravi’s problem? We all know what gay people do, and it’s the exact same thing straight people do. They just have more fun.
More than that, he also posted, “Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again.”
Now he’s dead, and Dharun Ravi, the little monster, faces five years in prison for multiple accounts of invasion of privacy and being a serious idiot.
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