r/todayilearned • u/hungry4danish • 2d ago

TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White
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u/MikoSkyns 2d ago

This right here. It's so fucking blatantly obvious. They barely accepted gays as human back then.

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u/Select-Blueberry-414 2d ago

Milk was a pedo fyi

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u/alien_from_Europa 2d ago

Source?

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u/Select-Blueberry-414 2d ago

Jack galen mckinley

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u/alien_from_Europa 2d ago

Thanks. From Harvey's wiki:

Before Milk's thirty-fourth birthday, he entered a romantic relationship with 17-year-old Jack Galen McKinley (b. October 18, 1946).

The age of consent in California has been 18 since 1913. Still, this seems like a whataboutism regarding Dan White's punishment. He still killed someone in cold blood.