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Behind the Aegis

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6. Not really.
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 03:09 AM
Jun 2013

Sorry to jump in, but I think the comparison holds some water. Most sexual assaults against women are actually committed by men they know; not strangers! To me, it bares a similarity to the "stranger danger" we teach children, when in fact most kidnappings are by family members, as are most pedophilic assaults. Yet, we teach children to fear strangers. So why is it acceptable for women to see every male stranger as a potential rapist? Driving that point home is your own statement: "Whereas the vast majority of murders - and robberies, so far as I know - are committed by someone who's the same race as the victim." Therefore, "fearing" black people because they may rob you is as ludicrous and bigotry driven as fearing any man you encounter on the street will rape you.

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