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Sophia Rosing was banned from the University of Kentucky campus after the incident

A college student who went on a drunken tirade using the n-word 200 times will now head to jail for a year.

Sophia Rosing, a former student at the University of Kentucky, became infamous in 2022 for her rant that was captured on video and shared on social media. In the video, Rosing was caught using the slur at a fellow student and assaulting her.

Rosing previously pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault and other charges. When she entered her plea, she apologized to fellow student Kylah Spring and members of the Black community.

This week, a judge in Kentucky sentenced Rosing to 12 months in custody and 100 hours of community service, according to Lex 18.

In the infamous video Spring said that Rosing struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach. As Spring is explaining what happened to her, Rosing can be heard yelling at her in the background, calling the Black student the n-word and a "b****" throughout the footage.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 151 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Watch her get out in a year and be invited to go on the Republican lecture circuit to talk about how woke politics is ruining American college campuses.

This isn't a joke, I seriously think this will happen.

[–] Carrick1973@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's pretty and blond and an idiot. She'll be on Fox News as a host shortly after.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A whole year? Somebody is optimistic.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The woke liberals are trying to cancel her for the innocent act of being a racist asshole who assaulted a black woman! They're out of control!

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

!remindme 1 year

(we need this bot! I have no programming knowledge or skills but I'm going to make this happen one way or another)

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 125 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Interesting that the Independent made sure to mention that this student was drunk not once, but twice, as if that were an excuse.

No one says that word when drunk if they wouldn't be willing to say it out loud in certain company.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Her being drunk is relevant to reporting the truth. They're not excusing her actions but giving context. As you pointed out, she may never have said these slurs in her open life, but she was probably thinking them and alcohol greased the wheels on her racism.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's some serious grease. To go from zero n-words sober to two hundred times drunk?

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Talk about White Washing a story.

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[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Anyone else getting serious larval-stage-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene vibes from this mug shot or just me?

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

I'm getting "crazy ex girlfriend" vibes from her. The type that would fake a pregnancy, break out your car windows, and stalk you for years after the fact.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I’m reminded of the “Asians in the library” chick from like 10 years ago or something.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine saying the n-word 100 times in an assault on someone and only being halfway done. 😬

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

how long was the assault? That's like dozens of hard Rs per minute. What a psycho.

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[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those are all the stifled n-words shes been holding back thus far in her brief lifespan thus far. They all came out at once

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm very confused here. She is white, pretty, and went before a Kentucky Judge. How was she sentenced to anything?

~/s~

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You're asking the right questions. Not rich enough, apparently

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I guess he was rich enough for 150 slurs, but she had to cross the limit.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Regardless, I would put good money on her being in a sorority.

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Soon to be a member of KCI, Kentucky Correctional Institution

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

That's a bingo

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[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

3 words: national media attention

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How was this not elevated to a hate crime? That sentance is weak sauce for a racially motivated attack

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's hard not to just be blunt here. She's a white girl. Sentencing guidelines and police protocols are different for people matching that description. It's a known, researched phenomenon.

It's not unreasonable to say that the police work for non-impoverished, non-overweight white women. It's noticeable in how quick white women are to call the police and think the police will help with a problem.

Statistically, you are roughly about 1000% more likely to experience police violence if you are not a white woman.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

It's not really for being a white girl, it's primarily for being a girl.

Women get 63% lighter sentences for the same crimes as men ( https://academic.oup.com/aler/article-abstract/17/1/127/212179 ), while there is no racial gap between white and another race, whether among men, or women, that's even half that wide ( https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing ).

[–] 01011@monero.town 14 points 1 month ago

Her being white is most certainly a factor. Racial judicial bias is definitely a thing. When you add in gender judicial bias you end with a tap on the wrist for a most egregious crime.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The first article doesn't primarily address racial disparities within the context of gender. The second one, which does, notes pronounced leniency for white women vs. women of other races. As a woman, you are between 12-30% less likely to receive probation instead of incarceration if you aren't white. Where things were roughly equal is if you are being incarcerated, which is more likely if you're not white as noted above, you are likely to get a roughly equivalent period of incarceration for an equivalent crime. All of these outcomes will be significantly worse if you're a man.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That is apparently determined at sentencing in Kentucky.

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=45774

So blame the judge.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

However, Spring said after the plea hearing that she did not believe Rosing was remorseful.

Yeah, I can look at that mugshot and tell she's not. Glad (and surprised) she got actual punishment.

Edit: I'm making the assumption that's the reflection of a bright orange jumper I see at the bottom of the photo, and the typical blandly colored cinderblock wall in the background.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is the sort of smug little smirk that says, "that n- deserved what she got." No remorse at all.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's like 4 minutes of straight up repeating the n-word. Besides her racism, how fucked up she was to vomit out that long of a manifesto?

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[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 20 points 1 month ago

When is she gonna be invited to headline a Trump rally?

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully lawyers that can fine her separately for each and every one.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

can you get fined for saying a word in a country with the first amendment? how dumb is this even if what she did was wrong its not illegal to say the N word. The assault however she should get in legal trouble for.

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[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I don't know but they beat me to it.

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[–] ZeroCool 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good. I remember seeing that video back when this all happened and she’s a vile piece of shit.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ThomasLadder_69@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Over the course of 10 minutes. That means she said it about every 3 seconds...

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll never get the American mindset which considers "used the n-word 200 times" the main offense, the one worthy to be in the headline, while "struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach" is just a minor detail that happens to be mentioned somewhere in the article as an afterthought.

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[–] don@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

All that hideousness and just gets a year of jail and 100 hours of community service. Fucking Kentucky pantywaist conservative judge.

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