Posted on 12/01/2015 1:55:24 PM PST by grundle
Given that there are so many legitimate incidents to choose from, why have so many high-profile cases ultimately fallen apart?
If you were to ask an average person today to name a prominent story about rape on college campuses, odds are pretty good that among the top four or five replies would be the Duke lacrosse case, the Rolling Stone cover story about Jackie and the University of Virginia, Columbia University "mattress girl" Emma Sulkowicz and one of the stories from "The Hunting Ground." Yet in all of these stories, either the accusations were later shown to be a complete fabrication or at least serious questions were raised about them.
... so many of the accusations that they themselves have chosen as emblems of the cause have been proved false or debatable...
... why do anti-campus rape activists keep shooting themselves in the foot?
... the Duke lacrosse case and the Rolling Stone story were huge national news well before skeptics began poking holes in the accusers' stories...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
When you are pushing an agenda and have not been taught how to think for yourself, you tend to do stupid stuff.
Because liberals lie.
I could go on to post a 600 word essay elaborating on this answer. But these three little words explain it all.
Add to the stories that fall apart:
1. Michael Brown
2. Trayvon Martin
3. Tawana Brawley
Because they are not true?....................just a guess.............
Because they are fake?
All the time.
About everything.
Sharks bite. Skunks stink.
Leftists lie.
It's what they do.
I'd say that's a false premise, if the subject is rape on campus. Drunken hookups are a bad scene, but they are not what is usually called "rape."
Given that the author assumes a debatable point is a 'given', perhaps the author would care to defend that there "are so many legitimate incidents"?
Are there really 'so many'? Or is the author just projecting his/her bias?
Not to mention global warming, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown.
Yeah, like fake it.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...
I need some help with philosophy and logic here.
The author states there are "so many legitimate cases" but can't find any that stand up to scrutiny. Simple deduction would tell you your theory is false - and there ARE NOT so many legitimate cases as you believe.
Its like saying - "there are so many legitimate cases of people who can turn themselves into werewolves, so why can't I find a case that stands up to scrutiny?"
Question - what is the term of for this kind of logical fallacy?
Because bullshit has no integrity.
Because they are seeking stories that fit a narrative, instead of the reality of two equally drunk people having sex and it is classified as rape when she changes her mind, which is 90% of the rape cases on colleges today.
And you know the 1 in 4 rape statistic is not true, if it were violent sexual assaults, because no one on the planet would pay 10K plus per year to put their daughter or themselves at equal risk of rape as a refugee in war torn Congo.
Watched this recently:
‘The Hunting Ground’: Tackling campus sexual assaults
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/22/opinions/clark-the-hunting-ground/index.html
While I think the female students were treated badly by the schools, the most common denominator in all the assaults was alcohol. Is that all kids do in college now - get drunk and have sex?
No wonder they need safe spaces. Hard to work up too much sympathy for them. May sound cold but I’m old now and not sympathetic to stupidity.
Or - asked another way:
Why can't we be better liars?
Or:
Why doesn't anyone believe our propaganda (bull$hit)?
IOW, the perp is the wrong shade and tends not to be an athlete or a member of a fraternity. Sometimes the rapist is the wrong sex as well.
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