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In reply to the discussion: The saddest graph you’ll see today [View all]Swagman
(1,934 posts)58. I have no idea what the real figures are but I recall the dodgy US Attorney General claimed
there were '50,000 predators online at any one time".
The figure was re-produced for years by serious publications with no proof cited apart from the FBI who could never back it up.
In the 1950s there were "50,000 members of the Communist Party" according to McCarthy.. there are lies and damned statistics and I need a lot more than a graph to convince me.
I like hard evidence and while the Enliven Group's website looks like it has good ideals it's very thin on actual evidence.
It also seems to me there is a determined bid to downplay false accusations for some odd reason.
I have no doubt rape and sexual assault figures are shocking...but women can be as nasty and vicious as men and capable of lying.
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If you have no idea how the group reached their conclusions, why are you so sure that they are wrong
yardwork
Jan 2013
#78
If you are actually saying that women were threatened with PROSECUTION for reporting a rape-
WCLinolVir
Jan 2013
#76
you are correct. I know someone falsely accused and it cost them about tens time what it cost you
Swagman
Jan 2013
#44
I have no idea what the real figures are but I recall the dodgy US Attorney General claimed
Swagman
Jan 2013
#58
I'm always reluctant to get involved with these discussions but I think a false allegation is so
Swagman
Jan 2013
#12
Try the known discarded police reports from the Met and Manchester and Liverpool
intaglio
Jan 2013
#36
what the fuck is the MRA and it is you spouting rubbish by weaving separate incidents
Swagman
Jan 2013
#57
exactly. what about their lives? I've heard people say that there are so few that it's not
samsingh
Jan 2013
#40
this is what the more hysterical will say uniquely in sex assault cases : it is better for a few
Swagman
Jan 2013
#45
The NCVS works by drawing a geographically stratified random sample of Americans
Jackpine Radical
Jan 2013
#31
how dare you accuse people of being rape apologists because they discuss false accusations
Swagman
Jan 2013
#59
That's what I understood him to be saying. He's gone off in a huff now, putting me on ignore.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#99
I don't see anybody disagreeing with the fact that false accusations are a problem.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#97
what's "faced trial", shouldn't there be jailed, charged, reported, unreported?
snooper2
Jan 2013
#34