I don’t think gravel is naturally occuring is it?
…we have places that are rocky, even stoney beaches, but those stones tend to be round and smooth because of how they got there.
I guess in certain types of rock avalanches some gravel must be produced, but I don’t think that’s in a patch on an otherwise flat surface.
Should be longer considering it’s a crime against the entire population of the nation.
Okay, so the joke is that the aliens look like sections of fencing, and their heads look like tin cans?
That’s true, I forget you can block whole communities on Lemmy. I guess my question is moot as long as that feature exists.
Like muscle memory, just built into the fabric of the history and culture.
That the letter writing is a form of elite leftist denialism of the issues.
That it’s essentially covering over that there are issues to be discussed here, in favour of going after “the right” and trying to scold ones enemies rather than actually look into the issues (which I’m claiming are cultural and economic).
You know, sometimes it’s better to conceed than it is to alienate and deny.
Yes, what’s more sex crimes tend to be “crimes of opportunity” - or to frame that idea differently - “crimes of circumstance”… And those circumstances tend to be created by a lack of money, lack of education, and an abdication of responsibility from those in charge.
I don’t get people pretending that’s not still rape. These things are still applicable, the UK isn’t a special exception.
Oh please, you’re the one claiming it’s prejudice to call out wealthy leftists for being so far removed from the situation that they don’t even know rapes are happening in these communities.
Your defense of ivory towers of wealth, lifestyle disconnection and intellectual privilege is far more fascist aligned than anything I’ve said.
Hence your whole “anyone who disagrees with me must be MAGA” stance here…
…and again, it’s an discourse where studies show that negative reinforcement is far less effective than positive reinforcement. Your line of thinking on these issues actually contributes to the polarisation and prolonging of them (so is pro-rape). As was your original denying there was any issue (saying it was just prejudice).
You just keep pushing bad answers… And I keep having to explain to you what the actual studies say (be they how negative discourse creates polarisation, or the very fact that rapes are happening).
You need to learn political nuance. Get off tiktok or whatever’s got you so ideological boxed in.
But yeah, I’m done with you, and your reactionary polarisations. I hate you and we’re on the “same side” - I can’t imagine you’re doing anything out there worthwhile. I just hope people like you can educate yourselves so I don’t have to. Good luck.
I don’t think you being reactionary to a far-right whose not present here, or the letter writers trying to preach to the far-right from a “corrective left” perspective of professionals in the top end of town works.
It’s hot air. The far-right aren’t going to read the edicts past down from on high and see the error of their ways. It’s a totally pipe dream leftism that assumes “being a scold” does anything but push people right.
I mean take yourself - you couldn’t even handle my original comment pointing that out. Look at all the time we’ve wasted here just because you had an “I’ve detected prejudice” error.
This is just all the stuff the left gets wrong, that feeds into the far-right populism. We need an alternative ti being scolds.
You’ve just thrown RACE into the conversation here, I said it was cultural and socioeconomic.
How are studies tribalism? Also I’m a leftist, I’m just also aware there are out of touch leftwing elites (writing denialist letters in this case).
Your studies demonstrate the fact that immigrants are much more likely to be the VICTIMS of sexual violence than native born people
No one said otherwise! Sorry, what’s your argument? That it doesn’t count as rape if immigrant men rape immigrant women? That’s disgusting dude.
No asshole, of course that still counts as rape. Of course that’s part of the higher amounts of SA and SV in those communities. I don’t know why you needed to be shown studies to admit that.
Of course leftist elites aren’t going to recognize that, and are going to try to pretend it’s not true - like you were doing.
I take it you’re no longer claiming it’s “just prejudice” to point this stuff out? That you see a problem with not addressing increased rape stats now - and that not addressing and contextualizing gives the far right something to gripe about?
At least admit that much. I’m so sick of leftwingers denying problems. It’s a politics of willful blindness and denialism sometimes. Easy to do for professionals at the top end of town.
You claimed it was a matter of prejudice.
I presented studies.
Now you’re playing rehortorical games rather than responding with an argument.
Society only overcomes issues by processing them, don’t shirk your part in that process.
you literally just supported my point.
Yes, I’m agreeing with you.
So you believe the world is a monoculture? That the entire world shares the same views of sex and gender relations, the same crime statistics everywhere, the same milquetoast liberal mindsets are held across all lands…
…and saying otherwise is “prejudice”.
Or basically you think the studies are wrong, and that the “behavioural barriers” mentioned in those studies are just a product of Westerns judging the crimes too harshly:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776223001503
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6165364/
All issues are class issues, and they only become subject to rightwing populism when ruling leftist elites CHOOSE to disconnect from working class realities in favour of elitism and denial.
Your prejudice is the erasure of all cultural and economic differences. That’s the prejudice you’re practicing.
A recent report states ALL Thai foreign workers in Israel have been sexually assaulted:
https://slrpnk.net/post/26961857
Elite leftists who want to disconnect themselves from the complex issues and incompatibilities of cultural exchange are just fueling the problem, and allowing right wing populists to make points.
Fact is that different regions have different gender relations, and different problems because of that, and we need to understand that.
Signed by; Leftist women from good neighbourhoods.
Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana.
…how convenient for them.
Take that AMOC!
California isn’t local to most people on earth.
If an American school was flying Nazi flags just after the world figured out there was a genocide being done by the Nazis - that would be INTERNATIONAL news, even when a local news paper was reporting it.
Of course it’s local to them, but it says something about international attitudes. So it’s international to the rest of the world. Look at it this way, that school is an international embarrassment.
Oh, I think of it as rough and pointy… Like a bunch of smooth pebbles isn’t exactly going to cause Thag a problem in this comic right? So to me the comic is also suggesting gravel is rough and pointy small rocks.