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Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. The book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic defines it as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more".[1]
The popularity of the term affluenza is often credited to John de Graaf, who produced a documentary and a book in the condition in the late 1990s. De Graaf primarily defined the word as the contagious illness that was creating mountains of debt, overwork and addiction to spending.
bloodreviara
Wow, i guess i missed the story about this, its just sick, if anything he
should be locked in a mental institution for his very severe sentence,
he killed four people, they cannot just let him walk away from that.
If they do let him off with just therapy then we are so in trouble,
that pretty much confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt where this
is all heading. So much for any real justice.
bloodreviara
Wow, i guess i missed the story about this, its just sick, if anything he
should be locked in a mental institution for his very severe sentence,
he killed four people, they cannot just let him walk away from that.
If they do let him off with just therapy then we are so in trouble,
that pretty much confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt where this
is all heading. So much for any real justice.
beatbox
No disrespect to any members but lets be real here..we're all adults....it's called "white privilege"...this is just an extreme case of it.
Same judge gives this kid probation but a black kid who killed 1 person, from a punch gets 10years?
Don't get upset and don't get defensive....if this was a black kid with the same amount of money...him being labeled with "affluenza" would be laughable...and we all know this.
edit on 14-12-2013 by beatbox because: (no reason given)
bigfatfurrytexan
beatbox
No disrespect to any members but lets be real here..we're all adults....it's called "white privilege"...this is just an extreme case of it.
Same judge gives this kid probation but a black kid who killed 1 person, from a punch gets 10years?
Don't get upset and don't get defensive....if this was a black kid with the same amount of money...him being labeled with "affluenza" would be laughable...and we all know this.
edit on 14-12-2013 by beatbox because: (no reason given)
If that were true, then white people wouldn't be prosecuted. Since they are, it seems that the "white" in "white privilege" is a misnomer. At least, in the year 2013.
The reason white folks had power in the past was due to financial power. Power follows resources. In 2013 we measure resources in dollars (or whatever other currency is chosen).
I have seen it happen with Indian kids, too. And latin.
I won't touch the discussion around why a black kid would be likely to be singled out. Not with a 10 foot pole. But your premise is incorrect.
A Manhattan judge aimed to scare a wealthy teen mugger straight Tuesday, threatening to send the preppy punk away for life if he screws up again. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Farber warned Jesse Wasserman, 18, that he'd slam him with as many as 75 years in an upstate jail if he doesn't stay clean ahead of his sentencing next month. The stern lecture came after Wasserman, who lives in a ritzy New Rochelle neighborhood, fessed up to three counts of first-degree robbery for a series of muggings last August in Central Park. "I could sentence you for the rest of your life," Farber told the boarding school dropout as he explained that Wasserman risks up to 25 years on each count if he's rearrested.
With that, Farber allowed the teen to remain free on $150,000 bail until his Sept. 6 sentencing, when his youthful offender plea deal could get him anywhere from 16 months to four years behind bars. Wasserman's record will eventually be sealed if he stays out of trouble. Prosecutors opposed the youthful offender designation.
"He has some issues, but he's not violent," Steiner said of his client, who he said helped cops recover the fake gun after his bust.