Twitter jumps on John Grisham for 'white guy' child porn remarks

John Grisham is a trending topic in a big way -  and not in a way he probably hoped.

Gawker's headline: "John Grisham: Let's give old white guys who look at porn a break"

In a wide-ranging interview on the U.S. judicial system with The Telegraph, Grisham said judges have "gone crazy" over the past 30 years, locking up far too many people, from white-collar criminals like Martha Stewart, to black teenagers on minor drug charges and those who had viewed child porn online.
"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody, would never touch a child," he said in an exclusive interview to promote his latest novel Gray Mountain. "But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn."
He added,
"I have no sympathy for real pedophiles. God, please lock those people up. But so many of these guys do not deserve harsh prison sentences, and that's what they're getting."
Some of the reaction:

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