Butthurt white guys, an Asian virgin and an angry lesbian walk into a bar...
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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TrollfaceDeux
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That list seems useless. If you are going to label someone a bigot for disagreeing with you anyways why would you have to engage in an argument.
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Mist
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Lithose
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Moreabout the UVA rape story. Thought it fit nicely with the last few pages.
The most striking moment for me: when the fraternity brothers say they knew within 24 hours that the Rolling Stone story was false -- provably false, because their internal records and bank statements showed no party on the weekend in question, and no brothers matched the description of the alleged rapist. Yet the brothers kept quiet because they thought that fighting the story in the news media "would only make things more difficult."
There are a lot of definitions of moral panic running around, but here's mine: It's when a community becomes hysterical about some problem -- often, but not always, a real one -- that becomes defined as an existential threat to public safety and moral order. In such a climate, questioning how big the threat actually is, or contesting any particular example, is not a matter of rational discussion, but of heresy. ......
While the moral panic is raging, ludicrous and improbable stories suddenly become convincing, and it's dangerous to question them, because why are you defending witches? Are YOU a witch?
Here's the thing. As rape investigations have gotten more sophisticated, as special squads have been formed and rights advocates been formed...As rapes have dropped precipitously----The fear and hysteria about it has only grown.
The most striking moment for me: when the fraternity brothers say they knew within 24 hours that the Rolling Stone story was false -- provably false, because their internal records and bank statements showed no party on the weekend in question, and no brothers matched the description of the alleged rapist. Yet the brothers kept quiet because they thought that fighting the story in the news media "would only make things more difficult."
There are a lot of definitions of moral panic running around, but here's mine: It's when a community becomes hysterical about some problem -- often, but not always, a real one -- that becomes defined as an existential threat to public safety and moral order. In such a climate, questioning how big the threat actually is, or contesting any particular example, is not a matter of rational discussion, but of heresy. ......
While the moral panic is raging, ludicrous and improbable stories suddenly become convincing, and it's dangerous to question them, because why are you defending witches? Are YOU a witch?
Here's the thing. As rape investigations have gotten more sophisticated, as special squads have been formed and rights advocates been formed...As rapes have dropped precipitously----The fear and hysteria about it has only grown.
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The fact that rapes are declining statistically is not actually a consolation if you happen to be an actual rape victim. If it makes it less likely that you'll believed, it can potentially hurt you.
It's really hard to call it a 'moral panic.' Moral panics are urban legends like razor blades in halloween candy, aka things that never actually happened.
Plenty of rapes are actually happening on campuses. Campus rape is not an urban legend. Whether it's 1 in 5 girls or 1 in 20 girls, it's still a high occurrence of a very serious crime with very serious, potentially life-long trauma implications.
It's really hard to call it a 'moral panic.' Moral panics are urban legends like razor blades in halloween candy, aka things that never actually happened.
Plenty of rapes are actually happening on campuses. Campus rape is not an urban legend. Whether it's 1 in 5 girls or 1 in 20 girls, it's still a high occurrence of a very serious crime with very serious, potentially life-long trauma implications.
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So we need to keep the rape numbers up so that victims will be believed. Got it. Get to raping fellas, we need to protect those rape victims!