To be clear: I do feel the case against Aaron was unjust, but we can't give extra attention to a case due to suicide.
It must be terribly painful to have strangers commenting on the loss of a loved one, especially in such a politically charged and public arena.
I'm always loath to say what amounts to "take what they say with a grain of salt, they're heavily emotionally invested." It's fair to say that that's the case here, though. I say that as someone who thinks MIT does have some level of culpability and have had the pleasure of interacting with the wonderful and brilliant person that Taren is.
It's sad that there is a need to apologize such as you did.
This is one of these issues in which ordinary discourse is not possible. You would have to spend so much time padding your thoughts about what you might think to lessen the impact on those that are highly sensitive for one reason or another.
I know but this wasn't in response to someone who claimed they were directly connected to this case though.
I wish I could track down her paper on southern states putting urban minority prisoners in rural white area prisons. They are put on the rural census and removed from urban census. Not only do they not get to vote, their representation power goes to the white rural voters.
Certainly it doesn't mean she's wrong, but we should think critically, just as we would if Ms. Ortiz were making a statement.