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Scenario for 42 sequential times. >> the prosecutor, do you see this notebook? miss hearst, i refuse to answer. the prosecutor, you wont even tell us whether you see the documents in front of you? miss hearst, i refuse to answer. >> that ruling destroyed the entire defense. it gave a wonderful spring board to say, in essence to the jury, shes always been a defiant child, and look here. and it killed us. people wanted patty to do jail time. she was more unpopular than the boston strangler. >> h...

Guilty of what we were guilty of, but even of firing a deadly weapon, because she was the only one that fired a weapon the whole time. she got five years ago from that, while we got 60 years in the pen. >> some charged she received a special brand of justice for the rich. >> privilege began to come through. her class privilege that she was rejected when she was with us. but all of a sudden her class privilege was what was going to protect her. as soon as we were convicted in los angeles, they ne...

Until this crime looked and said thats not sexist, thats not part of it, that is part of why the police, as you said, the family tried to get help for elliot rodger and they walked away saying hes courteous, hes polite. part of it is because of this white masculinity and white privilege. >> entitlement. >> exactly. and part of it is because media have not given the warning signs to know. we need to change the systemic -- >> and the other -- the only one other thing i want to add in here is so i ...

>> its the embracing of old-fashioned domestic arts, the knitting, the crocheting, the pickling, baking bread, the jam canning, even the keeping of chickens, among people that, you know, really have the means to reject the stuff if they wanted to. >> well, and i guess that is one of the points. first of all, i sort of feel these peoples purpose is to make me feel guilty about not doing these sorts of things myself. but thats a separate issue for me personally. but who is it that is embracing thi...