Has anyone else been following the debate - if that's the word I want - on what to do about the recent assault rape epidemic here in Oslo? Fabian Stang, our mayor, said something sensible on the issue this weekend ... that maybe we should consider trying to get some kind of control of the asylum seekers (quite a few of them probably no longer asylum seekers, but illegal immigrants) who are committing an absolutely grotesque percentage of these criminal acts. Of course the PC brigade was immediately up in arms and frothing at the mouth, as per usual, over this hideously racist idea. :-(
The amazing thing is that these people really don't see the logs in their own eyes. They critize Stang for branding a whole group as criminals, and stigmatizing people by generalizing in this way. I disagree with that, I don't think Stang is stigmatizing these uncivilized barbarians, I think they manage that just fine on their own. But what I want to point out is how their argument then continues. It's pretty amazing.
Let me see if I can sum it up here. I've seen this argument, if that's the word I want, pop up a number of times in the past few days. This problem has to do with attitudes that men have. Rapes happen because men need an attitude adjustment. Here it's explained over eight paragraphs. Men are the problem.
Stigmatizing whole groups and overgeneralizing is a really bad thing, mmkay?
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same sh!t all over :(
Very good point. I get so tired of this. It becomes impossible to discuss anything when debates turn into "men are like this and women like that" duels. Then everybody goes "But I'm a man/woman, and I'm not like that". End of rational argument.
The dirty secret here is of course that nobody wants to screen asylum seekers for mental health problems. It's a Pandora's box that nobody wants to open, because then they'd have to offer the severely traumatised treatment. And there is no budget for that, no?
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