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originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: SprocketUK
1/7 of rapes are committed by people not known to the victims, and yet you say they are more relevant to the problem than the other 6/7...
No one in their right mind would tackle a problem where it solves the smallest part. Only politics rallying up their xénophobe base are that dumb, and yet it works on some people... I wonder why that is... It's definitely not fact based and solution oriented reasoning...
originally posted by: SprocketUK
And no one ever solved a rape problem by allowing more criminals form intensely misogynistic societies into the country either.
Five women say they were raped by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed when they worked at the luxury London department store.
The BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, sexually assaulted or raped them.
The documentary and podcast - Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods - gathered evidence that, during Fayed’s ownership, Harrods not only failed to intervene, but helped cover up abuse allegations.
Harrods’ current owners said they were “utterly appalled” by the allegations and that his victims had been failed - for which the store sincerely apologised.
“The spider’s web of corruption and abuse in this company was unbelievable and very dark,” says barrister Bruce Drummond, from a legal team representing a number of the women.
Since this article was first published, more former Harrods employees have contacted the BBC saying Mohammed Al Fayed assaulted them.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: chiefsmom
Still better than cherry picking the few incidents that confirm our bias, and ignore the bulk of it that's contradicting...
I guess when we're emotionally invested we tend to not trust the data that contradicts our bias...
So you see, feelz are indeed more important than facts...
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: chiefsmom
Easy, invoke immigrants as the problem to something which is much bigger...
every democracy does it, and it always appeals to the low IQ right wing voters.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: Halfswede
So you think breaking up 1/7 of the rapes into subsections would change anything about the fact that 6/7 of rapes are committed by somone they know?
I guess what you try to do is cherry pick isolated data and ignore the bigger picture, that's just one way to foster bias...
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: chiefsmom
Still better than cherry picking the few incidents that confirm our bias, and ignore the bulk of it that's contradicting...
I guess when we're emotionally invested we tend to not trust the data that contradicts our bias...
So you see, feelz are indeed more important than facts...
originally posted by: Freeborn
Obviously if they are ever identified, arrested and charged emphasis will be placed on their awful upbringings, the difficulties they have had adjusting to our way of life and the responsibility we have to help them and NOT on the victims and the effects the attacks will have on them and their lives and the primary need to punish these #ing scumbags.
I have no idea how Keir Stalin and his predecessors can live with themselves.