Saturday, July 04, 2015

Here's One Rape Culture The Media Wants To Be Fake

Here's One Rape Culture The Media Wants To Be Fake | The Daily Caller
“They’re bringing drugs.
They’re bringing crime.
They’re rapists.
And some, I assume, are good people.”
With that colorful statement two weeks ago, Donald Trump declared his views on illegal immigrants. Since then, several media outlets have spent countless ounces of ink and innumerable seconds of air time raging at the real estate mogul for his comments — particularly his rape assertion.
Whenever The Donald is invited to defend his views for the umpteenth time, the questioning usually veers to the rape angle, as it did when Trump was interviewed by CNN’s Don Lemon Wednesday night.
During the interview, the presidential hopeful brought up a Fusion article that reported that 80 percent of women coming into the U.S. illegally are sexually assaulted.
Lemon — sensing a delightful bit of schadenfreude within his grasp — pointed out that the article referred to migrants being raped, not the other way around.
 Unfazed, Trump responded, “Who’s doing the raping?”
...This lack of an answer reflects how so many members of the media treat this awful rape epidemic. They find out that eight in ten female illegal immigrants are raped and all they want to do is mock Trump — the mere messenger of the statistic.
It’s a far cry from how mainstream outlets treat college sexual assault.
When it comes to campus rape, these same reporters deploy the old one in five trope ad nauseam to claim that it is a very serious problem. 
Pundits and commentators then place the blame on fraternities for fomenting a rape culture on campus and harboring predators in their midst. (RELATED: There’s More Than One-In-Five Things Wrong With Campus Rape ‘Facts’)...

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