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Indian Gov't Wants Worldwide Ban On Rape Documentary, Including Online
An anonymous reader writes India's far-right Hindu Nationalist government headed by Narendra Modi has banned telecasting and viewing online of a BBC documentary on the 2012 Delhi rape which shocked the nation. The documentary consists interviews of the rapist Mukesh Singh, his lawyers and the victim's parents seems to expose the male dominant nature of Indian society. Indian government is now attempting to ban the documentary worldwide. Critics of the Indian government's action has accused it of not addressing issues women face and instead trying to hide the dirty secrets of its culture from the world. Some Indian websites have also reported that the views expressed by the rapist are echoed by policemen, lawyers and politicians of the nation. So far the government's attempt to ban the video online is with mixed success.
So what's the bittorrent name for the file? I've got to grab it just in case the Hindu fanatics win.
This is the internet. The fastest way to make anything ubiquitous that can be electronically transferred, is to attempt to ban it.
I would expect bittorrent links pretty much everywhere by right about.... now.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Hopefully you have a "Plan B." One would think, ideally, one of your plans would be to not rape people. I mean, just throwing that out there. After, I dunno, the third or forth news story I was all like "Wow, they're really raping a lot of people in India all of a sudden. Did one of our fraternities start outsourcing or something?" And you guys do know that raping people is bad, right? I mean, based on your reaction to this movie, it does seem like you're aware of that. So maybe try not raping people for a while, see how that goes for you.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The rapist's comments in the documentary are pretty shocking - he blames the victim for the rape, for being out at 9PM rather than at home doing house chores. I suspect this perspective isn't unique to this one man and thus the government considers it an embarrassing reflection on the nation as a whole. Maybe that's a good thing.
This is where you should begin to wonder who is controlling these movements. I saw the signs women were holding during their rallies in India. Signs were in English and matching the exact rhetoric we see on signs in the US Feminist movement. "End gender based sexual assault". So men that are raped are not allowed in _their_ arguments, and neither are women raped by other women. The former is a staggeringly high statistic if you include incarceration, and the latter seems to match male on female rape by percentages.
No, it's not just prison where men get raped but county jail for events like exercising your first amendment rights.. er.. illegally protesting.
The unfortunate fact is that men are victims of sexual assault by women as well as other men. In the US we have a double standard, where a female sexually assaulting a male is always a victim somehow. The male victims are pressured into not talking, and often refused the ability to pursue charges. How many of the female teachers found to be sexually assaulting minor students have been charged and registered as sex offenders? Yeah, go ahead and check that number.
Finally, no! My comments are not intended or implied to justify the case TFA discusses. ALL sexual assault is wrong. What my comments are intended to do is show the double standards, which has the known consequence of intensifying aggressive acts like sexual assaults.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
caste system that persists in spite of being banned by government and very conservative views on many issues.
Caste "system" is not banned and it never was. Even the British loved it as it was a nice way to divide people. Complexity of Indian caste system lends itself to creative uses.
It's also a country where most people will rather buy a slightly more expensive phone than replace their outhouse with a running water toilet.
"Most people" in India don't have an outhouse, most of those who have , don't have any running water to their outhouses.
Those with running water to their outhouses don't have any need to practice economy. So you are wrong in every way.
Bingo Dictionary - Pragmatist, n. A myopic idealist.
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US culture is currently going through a Rape Scare that is very much like the Red Scare of the 50s. Witch hunters are everywhere, and what do you know, they find witches all the time. Just like in the 50s, it's just hysteria that feeds itself. Crime is down to historic lows right now.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
So whats the chance of dying as boy before 5? 1/25?
Did you know that over 90% of those in prison for violent crimes are men? Men are evil! But wait - 99% of men have never had and will never have a conviction for a violent crime, so saying men are evil is flat out bigotry as bad as any Klanner roaming the backwoods with a length of rope and a shotgun.
When you project the crimes of a miniscule minority onto much larger groups, you're a bigot.
A similar principle applies here. Let's take for example this article which claims a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes. While it goes without saying that any rape is too much rape, this makes it sound like India is the world's rape capital. Once every 20 minutes, my god!
Except the population of India is 1.25 billion, so counting the number of 20 minutes in the year we get around 26297. Divide 1.25 billion into that and look, we get 0.00002, or two per hundred thousand, which is considerably lower than most western countries. A very different picture emerges. Yes, scumbags and psychos exist in India the same as everywhere else. No that's not an indictment of Indian society, and what they're trying to do is protect their national reputation in the same way they're prioritising a space programme over indoor plumbing.
What happens when hysterias like the feminists and other carrion creatures manufacture for fun and billions in profit take hold is people suffer and die, torn to death by mobs without trial or due process. Trying to spin this call for a ban into the government protecting rapists is just more of the same - the government is acting in a confused and not terribly intelligent manner, but it doesn't want the country painted in a bad light.
And that's before we start talking about dowry law abuses, domestic violence law abuses, and maintenance law abuses, of which there are a great many. A quarter of all male suicides in India are directly attributed to family problems.
So, we have well provisioned westerners sitting behind their screens, tut tutting at the dastardly H1-B dudes roaming the halls scaring off all teh wimminz, suckling at the teat of hyped up outrage, squinting myopically through their little electronic rectangles at a world they've never experienced and have little understanding of, proudly touting the merits of skepticism in their signatures while massive human suffering goes unnoticed.
Still, that outrage feels good though eh?
I would agree with much of your post, and yet multiply it by ten and it's still less than the US. However you slice it, hysterical media hyperbole claiming an epidemic of rape isn't helping anyone. In the case of the man mentioned, it was actively harmful - he was pulled out of a jail cell and torn apart by an angry mob without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.
The one thing India doesn't need is the greasy hand of the feminist pulling strings - after all, who has more to gain from rape than them? The more rape they can come up with the more they can demand power, legislation and money from governments. Feminists love rape, they couldn't exist without it.
If it hasn't happened already I expect a survey in the near future telling us that one in four Indian women have been raped (where rape includes harsh language and being looked at crosswise, buried in the fine print in the middle of the windiest section of the technical report).
Sober analysis and intelligent research are the only efforts that will make a difference here.
One correction to your post incidentally, women (not men) do have recourse to civil remedies in the case of marital rape, including but not limited to financial compensation for emotional abuse, under the auspices of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005. Some of the penalties are quite extreme, and they don't require the same burden of evidence as a criminal case would.
Indian men have complained for years that the act has been mercilessly abused by malicious partners, but who cares what men have to say, right?
I think OP refers to policies against sexual violence that have been enacted of late in many USA universities, based on things like "if you wake up and don't remember the night before than it was rape". Several young males have been thrown out of school and tainted for life without any kind of due process - just badly handled internal procedures carried out inside their academic institution.
There's also the other face of the coin that rapes, especially when undergrads are involved, seems to be a real problem that universities and local police forces seem to be very ill-equipped to address. It's just that handling it exercising draconian justice without presumption of innocence, as far as the school is concerned, while doing nothing outside school in normal courts at the same time, does not seem to offer real justice to either victims or accused.
Especially considering that rape cases are very, very difficult cases. They are terrible tragedies for the sufferer of the crime, which is horrible for them when it happens on one hand, and real nightmares for people who is falsely accused of being a perpetrator. More often than not, they end up in being "my-word-against-yours" cases, where the police and the courts end up making accusations and judgments based on the "character" of the people involved. Quite a mess.
There has been an ongoing debate about this for at least a year in all major media (the NYT had several pieces, both investigative and opinion), and journalistic scandals with sources and false reporting were conveniently thrown in the mix as well (was it Rolling Stone? I'm too lazy to check). Google away to your pleasure!
The main advantage is hygiene. That is less diseases spread by parasites in the faeces and no need to empty out the outhouse getting people into direct contact with faeces.
It takes having lived a really comfortable life to not understand this basic issue with hygiene.
I am from India and trust me, it is only a small minority (of educated not-poor people) who are protesting. The rest (majority) of India is either poor people, village people, uneducated people or conservative people or some combination of these. And it is these same people who voted Modi into power in the first place. While the last category that is the conservative people support the ban, the first three categories, that is the poor, village or uneducated people got major life problems do deal with and couldn't care less whether some documentary is banned or not.