First, I thought that maybe the Factual Feminism was taking down an old and debunked myth, but then looking a bit further, I found an article in CNN Politics about how Vice President Biden urges men to be "part of the fight against campus rape", while CNN indicates without even the slightest amount of critical thinking that the statistic (which says one in five women are sexually assaulted in college) comes from the National Institute of Justice, providing NO link to the data.
It's amazing anyone could hear that 1-in-5 stat without at least scratching their head. That's a remarkably high percentage. It sounds like an epidemic. But I guess that's sensationalist the point.
I had to go back and watch that Obama clip a few times. It had me cracking up. He says, "We've made incredible progress since 1994." Then, "...not when 1 in 5 women will be a victim of rape in their lifetime." What was the rate in 1993? 2 in 5? o_O
I think people are so used to all of these surveys and studies being so ridiculously exaggerated that nobody really thinks about them anymore. They just go in one ear and out the other for most people. Which is probably a good thing.
When you read Alinsky's book (thank you RW for recommending it) you understand how Obama and his team mates plays politics. As Alinsky would say, who cares how you get there, so long as you do. Of course, where the left goes wrong is that they don't grasp that it takes a pure psychopath to actually follow Alinsky's rules. So when they do get to where-ever they are going, they end up with a psychopath fully armed with an incredible amount of power to do as they please. Perhaps this explains so many cruel left wing dictatorships of the last 100 years.
Actually, the 1 in 5 statistic comes from a 2007 (PRESIDENT BUSH) DoJ survey of two major universities, called the *cough* the Campus Sexual Assault Study *cough* https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf
Obama doesn't know how to tell the truth and he is an awful liar.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I thought that maybe the Factual Feminism was taking down an old and debunked myth, but then looking a bit further, I found an article in CNN Politics about how Vice President Biden urges men to be "part of the fight against campus rape", while CNN indicates without even the slightest amount of critical thinking that the statistic (which says one in five women are sexually assaulted in college) comes from the National Institute of Justice, providing NO link to the data.
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It's amazing anyone could hear that 1-in-5 stat without at least scratching their head. That's a remarkably high percentage. It sounds like an epidemic. But I guess that's sensationalist the point.
ReplyDeleteI had to go back and watch that Obama clip a few times. It had me cracking up. He says, "We've made incredible progress since 1994." Then, "...not when 1 in 5 women will be a victim of rape in their lifetime." What was the rate in 1993? 2 in 5? o_O
I think people are so used to all of these surveys and studies being so ridiculously exaggerated that nobody really thinks about them anymore. They just go in one ear and out the other for most people. Which is probably a good thing.
Delete"It's amazing anyone could hear that 1-in-5 stat without at least scratching their head."
DeleteIt doesn't take much to fool complete idiots. They really do live in the matrix.
When you read Alinsky's book (thank you RW for recommending it) you understand how Obama and his team mates plays politics. As Alinsky would say, who cares how you get there, so long as you do. Of course, where the left goes wrong is that they don't grasp that it takes a pure psychopath to actually follow Alinsky's rules. So when they do get to where-ever they are going, they end up with a psychopath fully armed with an incredible amount of power to do as they please. Perhaps this explains so many cruel left wing dictatorships of the last 100 years.
ReplyDeleteActually, the 1 in 5 statistic comes from a 2007 (PRESIDENT BUSH) DoJ survey of two major universities, called the *cough* the Campus Sexual Assault Study *cough* https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf
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