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Solly Mack

(97,052 posts)
21. Entitled assholes are generally raised by other entitled assholes.
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 04:51 PM
Oct 2018

Also, of course K'naugh knew to put on a front for his parents. He was all manners to the adults around him. Some parents feel their socially advantaged child couldn't possibly be up to no good because only poor kids do that sort of thing. Firmly believe that the ills of society - of which their sons raping girls falls under - happens not in their social circle but, again, with poor kids.

Also believe you can't rape someone in a lower social class because, obviously (to them) - she/he - the victim - was either asking for it, expecting a payday, or simply don't matter as a person.

Had one such entitled asshole tell me that incest only happens to poor people. He was another believer in the ills of society only impacting the lower classes. This asshole is the product of old money, old name in one state marrying into another old money, old name family in another state. Buildings and museums named after both sides in both states.

As a white, well connected male, he believes he has the right to rule, to control, and to lord it over.

If his daughters were to be raped, he'd first consider who did the raping to determine how to act. I'm serious - it would depend on where the guilty came from for him. What social class and how connected they were - wouldn't want to make a scene and all that. Not that his daughters would ever be raped - to his mind - they come from a good family and those things simply don't happen to good girls from good families.

If his sons were to rape someone - it would be an all out attack on the victim.



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Parenting in Absentia. MineralMan Oct 2018 #1
Social infractions that are a serious problem for most of us DBoon Oct 2018 #4
Why do any parents miss something going wrong with their kid? mythology Oct 2018 #2
It's not that uncommon..amongst that set.. HipChick Oct 2018 #3
They don't look. Are_grits_groceries Oct 2018 #5
What makes you think they didn't notice? MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #6
Whose to say that they may not have been, ahem, wild in their youth too? Tom Rinaldo Oct 2018 #7
I'd say they knew what he was like very well, but made excuses for him all his life. OnDoutside Oct 2018 #8
Jesuits ran this boarding school. irisblue Oct 2018 #9
ALL the DC area schools had this problem, so they were all blind to it. n/t pnwmom Oct 2018 #17
How come every parent from the 80s missed this Johonny Oct 2018 #10
Problems? The guy's some kind of genius! JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2018 #11
You also have the problem customerserviceguy Oct 2018 #12
And possibly the parents were alcoholic? Not uncommon in that set. SharonAnn Oct 2018 #13
I'm wondering how these underaged kids had access to so much alcohol DesertRat Oct 2018 #14
Drinking age got dropped in many states after the 26th Amendment in 1971 irisblue Oct 2018 #15
It's called "privilege". athena Oct 2018 #16
His mother knows the truth malaise Oct 2018 #18
This was the culture in ALL of the DC area private schools at the time. BK didn't stand out. pnwmom Oct 2018 #19
He was always in trouble according to that stupid calendar of his RockaFowler Oct 2018 #20
Entitled assholes are generally raised by other entitled assholes. Solly Mack Oct 2018 #21
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