• Duranie@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    While I get your point, it didn’t read as supportive to me. To me it read as a statement of “this is what I observed” not “this is my judgement of the kind of person he is.”

    Like if someone asked me what kind of person a coworker was. If my answer was “I saw them do their job” it can be a factual statement of my experience and really, isn’t necessarily helpful. It just means I didn’t witness them doing anything bad.

    Edit - rereading as someone just posted a copy of the letter. While I can see some focus on positive interactions with his daughter, it still strikes me as a factual “this is what I observed” and far less the emotional supportive standpoint that bled through from some of the other letters that were submitted.

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      1 year ago

      Then insulting part in the Ashton letter was his defense of Danny as an anti drug warrior, after Danny was convicted of drugging and raping people. Also his saying that Danny poses no threat to society. I believe those were the main complaints about it by one of the victims