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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You realize that here in Canada, groping teenage girls at a pool wasn't considered a serious crime a few decades ago, right? And that women were typically deterred from making a big deal out of these sorts of 'minor' matters, and they were usually dealt with informally?
Heck, I can remember a regular series in Cracked Magazine where a 13-year-old student reporter was portrayed as a sexual bombshell, a figure like Pamela Anderson, with huge boobs bursting through her tops. The premise of the series was sleazy adult men comically falling all over themselves trying to seduce her while she obliviously conducted her interviews wearing tiny shorts, paddling in a swimming pool, etc. This was considered light-hearted humour in 1980 or so.
The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there. In matters of predation against women, we are making progress from a pretty awful past to a better present. I assumed this was commonly knowledge.
Do you believe we in Canada have made progress when it comes to the treatment of women (and children, while we're at it)?
If yes, do you believe all cultures in the world have made the same progress at the same rate?
Yes, the guy who did this is a predator. But cultures vary tremendously over how seriously they regard different kinds of predation, and in the punishments men can expect to incur for them.
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And while I agree with what you said none of that changes my belief or adds any contrary evidence that this guy knew what he was doing was illegal and they you blaming Syrian culture is insulting to law abiding Syrians. Do you have any evidence that the rate of sexual assault being perpetrated by Syrian refugees is higher than the general?pop.
In 2011/2012 1600 men were convicted of sexual assault 15,000 reports of assault were made to police. If you assume a unique perpetrator(which likely isn't correct). Thats 1/20000 convicted and 1/2000 accused. So far reports of Syrian refugees committing assaults reported to the polic appear to fall into roughly the same statistical ball park given the limited sample size.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.thes...?client=safari