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June 12, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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This Week in Stupid (12⧸06⧸2016)

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	Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 12th of June 2016.
	I'm very glad to be back and I'd like to give Chris Raygan a big thanks for covering last week because he did a really great job.
	Since we've got a lot of VDC to cover this week, let's just get going.
	The first thing I want to talk about is how the people from the sort of rational sceptical side of the internet that we inhabit are starting to make their way into the mainstream media.
	For example, the Independence i-100 paper is very SJW, but it is also their most popular one, and it's because it's basically clickbait in paper form.
	And so when they printed, there's a problem with this photo of a beaten-up Trump supporter, I was very surprised to see who they were quoting in this article as, I don't know, sort of like public Twitter accounts and public people speaking about this issue, to make the point.
	So this revolves around a conservative media outlet using a picture and claiming that this picture of an abused woman is a Trump supporter when she met peaceful and tolerant liberals.
	It turns out to not be true.
	And they ended up using some of Shu's shitposting as some of the body of their article.
	In as well as Sphinosaurus Kin and Feminism is for nobody.
	Not only is it hilarious that shitposting from these guys is making it into mainstream news outlets, but they probably don't even know what they stand for.
	If they probably could look at their Twitter profiles, they'd undoubtedly find themselves triggered with words like, there is no rape culture, or the wage gap is a lie.
	Since we're on the subject of shitposting breaking the fourth wall, I'm going to talk about the Jess Phillips event of the week before last.
	And the thing is, these lunatics have reached a point where they're not even reading what's being sent anymore.
	Female labour MPs sent 600 rape threats in one night after launching a campaign to censor the internet.
	I mean sorry, end sexist bullying online.
	They quote Jess's very carefully worded tweet.
	To see the attack of a pack on here, check out my mentions.
	600 odd notifications talking about my rape in one night.
	I think Twitter is dead.
	That's a very cunning way of wording it, Jess.
	Talking about your rape.
	That's not threatening.
	That may be talking about something that has already happened, something that is potentially going to happen, who knows?
	But they're not threats in and of themselves.
	Very clever.
	Daily Mail, however, not so clever.
	Especially when they feature a screenshot of my tweet.
	That is not a threat.
	Well done, communist weeb, forgetting, don't worry, I wouldn't even have consensual sex with you, branded as one of the thousands of abusive messages on Twitter that she received since she launched the Reclaim the Internet campaign last week.
	None of these are abusive messages.
	None of them.
	This is all people being irreverent.
	They do not respect what Jess Phillips stands for.
	They do not respect her as a person because of the way she acts, because of what she's trying to achieve.
	Jess could have corrected any one of these headlines at any point, because she doesn't actually say that she's being threatened.
	She just makes it sound like she's saying she's being threatened.
	And we are making it sound like we're threatening her, but we're not.
	And you're all reacting.
	It's a fucking dog whistle.
	And the thing is, it should have stopped there.
	But it didn't.
	Because once you've told a lie and other people have bought into your lie, you then have to buy into your own lie.
	Otherwise, they know you're lying.
	So, let's see where Jess has gone with this.
	By ignoring the thousands of rape threats sent to me, Twitter is colluding with my abusers.
	Twitter, with the Trust and Safety Council, that's run by feminists, is colluding with your abusers, quote unquote, of a feminist.
	Do you think maybe that sounds a little far-fetched, Jess?
	I mean, since you're inventing conspiracy theories, why not just blame it on the patriarchy?
	And she's saying this because despite having celebrity endorsements to flag my account to Twitter support, to report me for abusing their rules, Twitter has come down on my side.
	We reviewed the content and determined that it was not in violation of the Twitter rules.
	Because they were not threats and you are acting irrationally.
	To both Jess and all of those virtue signallers that are desperately trying to be noticed for the good people they are.
	Oh, you're such good people.
	Like I was saying, Jess now has to double down on all of this and build up this absurd narrative where she says, I'm currently living in a parallel universe where the idea of not raping me is the insult du jour.
	Jess, it's because you have to take this seriously and now you have to make a big deal out of this or you're going to have to say to the people who are desperately buying into your victim narrative that in fact you are making it up.
	So now you have to say, here, not raping someone is what you do to the people you find repellent.
	Jess, that's what you do in the real world.
	We don't rape people we find repellent.
	Normal people don't rape people they find repellent.
	They don't rape people they like either.
	They don't rape people at all, Jess.
	I'm officially not good enough for a raping.
	Well I hate to tell you this Jess, but you're not.
	I know, that must uns really hurt.
	But you're not.
	In my opinion, no woman is, I don't know, has such qualities that I would feel the need to rape her.
	It would violate my own moral code of conduct.
	I can't imagine having to live with the guilt of that, if nothing else.
	Which is why you have never received any rape threats from the people we're talking about.
	Several people went through an entire Twitter feed and found nothing.
	And now you have come to the I'm Officially Not Good Enough for a Raping.
	This narrative is utterly ridiculous.
	After crying about people sending her tweets she didn't like, she says, I'm not crying over the thousands of faceless drones who follow a free speech liberator while he pounds their pockets.
	She's talking about me.
	A, I've never described myself as a free speech liberator, so I don't know who you're quoting there, dummy.
	But B, I don't encourage anyone to do anything.
	If you post something in public and I post something in public, and we both have tens of thousands of followers, which we both do, these things will happen, Jess.
	People will respond.
	Do you not think I got messages from your followers?
	She says, then I hear them tell me that we reviewed the content of your rapey abuse and determined that it was not in violation of the Twitter rules.
	And my heart sinks.
	I am not safe there.
	Well, what were the casualty figures?
	600 tweets with no threats?
	I don't think that's as big of a problem as you're making out, Jess.
	And she then complains that the individual who set his pack of wolves to attack me will face no such consequences.
	What do you think should happen?
	I tweeted at you, other people tweeted at you, you tweeted back, your people tweeted back.
	What consequences do you think should happen?
	And then go and write that on the Reclaim the Internet website.
	Because I want people to see that this is what you want done to people who fucking disagree with you.
	If these were tweets from people all confirming your bias by telling you how wonderful you are, you wouldn't be complaining.
	But this is criticism of your attempt to set up methods by which you can censor social media.
	And you don't like it.
	That's it.
	We're not saying anything to you that is wrong.
	And you don't like that.
	You want to use these powers without warrant.
	And look at the kind of language you're using here.
	Today, Twitter is colluding with my abusers.
	Tomorrow it will do the same.
	Let's hope that tomorrow it is me again who bears the scars, not your fragile son or daughter who might take it to heart.
	After all, I'm big enough, ugly enough, and unrapeable enough to take it.
	Oh, you fucking martyr.
	Jess, let's have a look at an actual example of what someone colluding with abusers might look like.
	Why did police keep quiet on sex attack by Syrian UK refugees?
	Girl 14 was assaulted by a gang, but it was kept off the crime list covered by BBC Newsnight team.
	Police were last night accused of bearing allegations that a gang of Syrians sexually assaulted two teenage girls in Newcastle Park.
	The three young men, the teenage boy, at least one of them a refugee, were arrested last month over claims two 14-year-olds have been attacked in the centre of the city.
	But even after the suspects were charged and appeared in court, Northumbria Police, which claims to have made sexual violence a top priority, did not announce the case to the public or press.
	Even the local MP only heard about it last week.
	Last night it also emerged to force published more than 100 incidents in a public appeals, including those on sexual assaults and indecent exposures, on its website in the same month, the alleged attacks that took place, but not the case involving the Syrians.
	However, the BBC's Newsnight program has refused to say when it first heard about the case.
	A police source told the Mail on Sunday the BBC had been informed four weeks previously in early May when the teenage refugee had been arrested and charged.
	It comes after police in Germany and Sweden face damaging claims they tried to cover up sex attacks by migrants for fear of stoking public anger against the new arrivals.
	All of which is true.
	So when Farad says that serious questions need to be asked of both the vetting of those in the government are allowing into the country and the authorities including the BBC who appear to have been involved in a conspiracy of silence over the case.
	He's not wrong.
	But hey, he's been criticised for warning the migrant crisis could put British women at risk.
	Even though we have evidence that it has.
	I hope you're still watching Jess because this is what actual abuse of women looks like and the collusion to cover it up.
	This is what that looks like.
	Nothing happened to you Jess.
	But you went on a little media tour going, oh I'm such a victim, I'm such a victim, while the BBC is actively burying stories of real victims.
	I thought you were a fucking feminist.
	And I'm really getting sick and tired of the regressive left making excuses for the migrants.
	At some point the people who are committing these crimes are going to have to start taking some responsibility.
	I'm sorry if people get a negative view about the migrants, but they keep raping people.
	Politically correct schoolgirls cover up their own sex attacks at the hands of migrants.
	Pupils at Herder School in Kessel, Germany, have been subjected to months of sexual assault by much older migrant males on their way to and from school, dating as far back as September 2015.
	Three girls aged between 16 and 18 were repeatedly touched, inappropriately and verbally abused, and they refused to report the incidents to the police or their school because the perpetrators were refugees.
	So these guys now have the privilege of being able to sexually assault young girls and not be punished for it because nobody is going to say anything about it.
	These girls are part of the conspiracy of silence around these refugees and this is why the right wing is booming at the moment.
	You have to all start being honest.
	The German newspaper reports the girls realized the socio-political implications of reporting their crimes, with the significant amount of press attention swirling around the migrant sex assault leading them to becoming what the paper identified as paralyzed by political correctness.
	One of the girls said, We do not want refugees to be discriminated against.
	We do not want people making sweeping accusations about migrants, and we didn't want to foment bad blood.
	The school says, many others may have experienced this harassment as well.
	Well, yes, they may well have done, because the guys doing this have been given a free fucking pass when you refuse to treat them the way you would treat anyone else committing these sex attacks.
	If you don't report them, they will be emboldened.
	Called whores to their faces.
	Groups of up to seven men would approach them at TranStop shouting, girls, girls, girls.
	Anna said the abuse felt very threatening, but came as a surprise as the abuse started on their very first day of the new school term.
	She said, I had not expected it at all.
	Compare this to what Jess Phillips has been receiving on Twitter.
	Don't worry, I wouldn't even have consensual sex with you.
	But no, Jess, you take up the column inches.
	Don't feel that there might be more important things that aren't being reported on anywhere.
	Don't fucking feel that way.
	I might tweet this video so you've got an excuse to go around and get even more column inches, more airtime for Jess Phillips, the victim of Twitter.
	Steffi Burmeister of the Together Against Sexual Violence Group said the organisation had seen a huge increase in sex violence come with the arrival of large numbers of male migrants.
	This was a phenomenon she attributed to the men coming from cultures with different views of women and a desire to reclaim lost masculinity after the fear and humiliation of being a migrant.
	Whether that is a credible reason or not, Miss Burnmeister said it was no excuse.
	And I agree with her and I think her assessment is probably accurate.
	And of course, this is not the first time this has happened.
	Breitbart did report on the case of a young female no borders activist who was gang raped by Sydney's migrants in the shower block of a camp on the French-Italian border in 2015.
	The other migrants in the camp were having a party and playing music, so her cries were unheard.
	Subsequently, after persuasion by other activists, the woman decided not to report her rape because to do so would set back her dream of a borderless world.
	After she betrayed the political ideals of the other volunteers at the camp and reported the abuse, some of her fellow activists accused of her doing it out of spite.
	Are there any feminists that would like to complain here?
	I mean, maybe this would be violating your principles of victim blaming and encouraging women not to report the sexual assaults that happened to them.
	I mean, at any point are you going to be consistent in your principles?
	So I'm going to be honest, I'm not surprised that there are quote-unquote hate crimes on the rise.
	I'm not surprised people are taking their own fucking methods to protect themselves from these migrants.
	I mean, what would you fucking expect?
	Obviously, institutional racism.
	That's why there's a hate crime spike.
	Ironically, this is actually kind of true.
	It's the bigotry of low expectations that is the institutional racism.
	As if Muslims cannot be expected to be held to the same moral standards as the rest of us.
	How little must you think of them?
	And then yes, obviously, this encourages the worst elements among them who would otherwise have been restrained by the rule of law.
	These people might not have committed these crimes if they thought they would be punished.
	However, we know they won't.
	And the only way that there is something being done is by vigilante justice, which is not something I agree with.
	But I can understand why it's happening.
	And I just love this.
	The report states that the number of hate crimes in the country is rising because police failed to respond to them accordingly and on time.
	While the latter points to the existence of a broader problem of institutional racism with the German judicial system.
	Oh, there's a fucking lot of problems in Germany.
	It looks like the police are good for nothing.
	They won't prevent the migrants.
	Apparently they're not stopping hate crimes.
	What are the German police good for?
	In response to Amnesty's report, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said his ministry would carefully evaluate the findings and determine what actions needed to be taken.
	One thing is clear.
	A state under the rule of law can never accept racist violence.
	But apparently, it can accept sexist violence.
	We need to do everything we can to quickly catch the perpetrators and rigorously punish them.
	Well, I agree.
	And I would like that to be applied consistently among all people who commit crimes.
	Especially ones as serious as violent assault, sexual assault and rape.
	But what am I talking about?
	These are obviously not really big problems in the Western world.
	I mean, we must have far more important things going on if actual sexual assaults of women aren't really a very big deal.
	I mean, what say France saying, oh, France is considering cracking down on sexism in video games?
	Really, France, is that the most pressing issue you have?
	The French government is considering several measures aimed at combating sexism in video games, according to a report published this week.
	The French Minister of Digital Affairs met with representatives from the French video game industry last month to discuss the set of measures, which include financial incentives and labels for games that give a positive image of women.
	In what world is this acceptable?
	Oh, what are we going to do?
	Well, we're going to start instituting laws that are basically based on sexual discrimination.
	Yeah, and we want to make sure that women get a positive image in the media.
	Well, not men, or trans, or anyone else, just women.
	And we're going to give people financial incentives.
	There is going to be a material benefit to doing this.
	I don't even know where the French government thinks they get a remit to start trying to influence art.
	As if there is nothing better to do.
	Also from this week, Stanford students complain that rape stats are too low.
	Oh yeah, that's a big issue of our time.
	If the rape stats are too low, what are the feminists going to use to create a victim narrative?
	Stanford University faculty and students aspiring over this call sexual assault statistics, saying the low numbers are a product of a faulty definition of abuse rather than the actual absence of a problem.
	As it stands, their campus climate survey reports that only 1.9% of male and female students were sexually assaulted when the survey was last administered.
	Oh, so it turns out there's hardly any sexual assault and rapes going on on college campuses.
	But because of the hysteria surrounding sexual assault and rape on college campuses, they now have to break out the fucking Inquisition.
	The issue is the definition.
	In the current survey, an instance qualifies as sexual assault if the victim is incapacitated and or the perpetrator threatened or used force or violence.
	This means that if a person is sexually penetrated without consent but is not incapacitated and subjected to real or threatened force or violence, then the incident does not constitute sexual assault.
	The assumption being that non-consensual sex would necessarily require force or violence or at least a threat thereof.
	Additionally, instances of vaginal or anal intercourse, digital penetration, oral copulation, or penetration with a foreign object do constitute sexual assault.
	So if I'm reading this correctly, women who are in a sexual encounter where they do nothing to resist, don't say no, and don't try to escape and have no threat of duress on them, and I think most importantly, there is no threat of violence or any force used, are not counted as rape.
	So if a woman lets you have sex with her, does nothing to resist, says nothing in objection, and you don't have to force her, she complies with what you request, you would be considered a rapist because you did not get affirmative verbal consent.
	Well, I'm not really surprised that the administration don't want to include that.
	And it doesn't surprise me that the professors and students alike are frustrated with the administration's assistance in keeping its current survey.
	It's producing an unrealistically low number of students who have been sexually assaulted.
	Yes, because the ones who are not objecting to having sex are not considered to be the ones who are being sexually assaulted.
	Because it doesn't sound like they're being sexually assaulted.
	It sounds like you're trying to include people who give non-verbal consent as rape victims.
	I am sorry that there are not enough rape victims in your colleges to justify your ideology, but that's too fucking bad.
	So let's end this week with the good news.
	Gorka files for bankruptcy.
	Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has dropped the ultimate body slam on Gorka.
	Nice.
	Forcing the New York gossip site into bankruptcy.
	The chapter 11 filing came Friday just minutes after a Florida judge said Hogan could start slapping Lienz on Gorka's property as part of his effort to collect the $140 million jury award against the company.
	Gorka has been put up for auction and is planning to sell its assets in bankruptcy court and has received an opening bid of $90 million from the digital media company and magazine publisher Ziff Davis LLC, which happens to be the parent company of IGN.
	Unfortunately, I can't say that it's all good news as apparently Jezebel are to continue blogging because they do such important work.
	The thing that interests me the most about all of this is that Gorka had this coming.
	I mean everyone knows that anyway, but the whole thing was bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaire and investor Peter Thiel after Gorka had outed him as gay in 2007.
	And unsurprisingly, Hogan won his lawsuit because them having his sex tape is not a matter of public interest.
	And finally, I think I may have found the most amusing headline I have ever seen in my life.
	Mexican congresswoman declares war on memes.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	I'm not going to read the article and I'm going to read the related articles.
	185,000 killed in Mexico in 9 years.
	Related.
	Over half of Mexican children live below the poverty line.
	Yeah, I don't think I'll be supporting this war on memes.

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