Posted on 12/01/2015 1:55:24 PM PST by grundle
Yeah, how bout all that “inflammatory rhetoric” “hoaxes” et al?
Not to discount actual instances of rape...but in 24 years of police work, sadly I found that the vast majority of cases are alcohol fueled bad decisions...then buyers remorse the next morning...or cover their butts the next morning...and the male gets dragged through the wringer...
And that's a given because . . .
Affirming the Consequent
Thus a disproportionate amount of those who seek media attention are probably frauds.
Six month old article. But interesting if one hasn’t read it before.
The most striking thing about this article is that it doesn’t mention a SINGLE LEGITIMATE case of campus rape, which would have been the easiest way to prove his various assertions that there simply MUST be thousands of campus rapes every year despite the absence of proof and despite the fact that all of the highly publicized cases have been patently fraudulent.
The obvious answer to “why high-profile campus rape stories keep falling apart” is simply that there are NO prosecutable campus rape cases and that the only ones available for high-profile publicity have been fabricated to make up for the absence of any real ones.
The first problem is that it precedes from a false premise:
Given that there are so many legitimate incidents to choose from.
There is no reason to believe this premise is true. It is neither intuitively obvious, nor a fact in evidence.
Second: even if we stipulate that we will accept the hypothetical for the sake of advancing the argument, there is a logical fallacy, called confusion of necessity and sufficiency.
Correct reasoning would be: If there are many legitimate incidents, then many high profile cases will hold together.
However, this statement says nothing about why high profile cases could fall apart. There is nothing in the premise that suggests that there are not many cases that fail to hold together, simply that there should be many that do. [Even if many rapes reported are legitimate, there can still be many which aren't. Common sense and correct reasoning.]
Correct reasoning would be the denial of the consequent, NOT the premise, and what that implies:
many high profile cases do NOT hold together.
Therefore, conclude (correctly, and without requiring any fact not in evidence):
there are many incidents which are NOT legitimate.
“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?”
An existential fallacy, maybe.
converse error, fallacy of the converse or confusion of necessity and sufficiency.
I believe this is called “begging the question” ... when one assumes as fact that which is the subject of debate.
If you found some actual rapes with actual victims and actual rapists, including evidence and convictions, how many would “support the narrative,” and how many would not?
For the same reason that the blacKKK and gayKK false flag ops fall apart.
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“Given that there are so many legitimate incidents to choose from...”
I think the fact that every story they keep pushing falls apart is strong evidence AGAINST the idea that there are “so many legitimate incidents”.
It’s just like the constant “hate crime” hoaxes. If there were real hate crimes to get alarmed about, then they wouldn’t need to bother with the hoaxes. I have to assume real hate crimes are extraordinarily rare, because every one we read about turns out to be a hoax. Similarly, I have to assume “campus rape” is extraordinarily rare, because every one we read about turns out to be a hoax.
“Why do high-profile campus rape stories keep falling apart?”
Because they’re meant to RAISE AWARENESS as to what happens to some women in college - no different than blacks faking racism incidents. The key is to focus on what is ALLEGED, not what actually happened.
...and that, people, is why these animals NEVER get prosecuted.
Recently, CNN had a Sunday night special called The Hunting Grounds and they promoted the heck out of it the weeks previous. I wonder if their rape histeria mockumentary got any watchers.
I saw that most of the young women were white. I wonder if they showed the faces of the men who they said were their attackers. My guess if they were black or muslim, they were not shown. Although here in Arizona, the rapes are done by Mexicans, these were college campuses and I don’t know what the crimes stats on those are.
And because the media and liberal establishment WILL NOT allow a case of rape by a minority to become "high profile".
And, generally, when a woman is really raped, violently raped, she doesn't like having her experience be "high profile".
They deliberately try to promote an agenda that everybody except for white males are oppressed. Of course, leftist feminists hate all males.
I remember reading articles back in the sixties by radical feminists who claimed that every problem suffered by a female was the fault of a male. No woman was ever responsible for her problems or a bad situation she found herself in.
All women were saints and angels...all men devils, demons, and filthy rapists. That narrative is still taught on college campi across the nation.
It speaks to how far the left (and the country as well) has fallen that a louse like Sharpton is still given respect and agency. After the Tawana Bradley scam fell apart, Sharpton should have been treated like the pariah he is. For instigating riots where people were killed/murdered, he should be in a penitentiary.
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