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I think a special prosecutor was mentioned. Obviously outside help has to come in and clean out the pustules that are the local authorities.

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

Yeah, small communities have some interesting warts at times.

There was a case up here where a whole community was involved in covering up CSA, for instance. Now, that's twisted.

IWYW,
— Aswad.

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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1

Bullshit, I directly quoted your exact words, and added nothing.

That is exactly what you said, *after* the link about the Japanese school rapes, and star rapists across the globe were posted... (not to mention the public gang rapes in India being all over the headlines). It is an international problem, period.

Either you knew that and chose to misprepresent it, or you chose to keep your head in the sand about the scope of the problem. Either way is repugnant.

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I'm not going to be leading a team of Redcoats across the Atlantic anytime soon.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1

Bullshit, I directly quoted your exact words, and added nothing.

That is exactly what you said, *after* the link about the Japanese school rapes, and star rapists across the globe were posted... (not to mention the public gang rapes in India being all over the headlines). It is an international problem, period.

Either you knew that and chose to misprepresent it, or you chose to keep your head in the sand about the scope of the problem. Either way is repugnant.

No offence, but could you please strive to be a little less paranoid, Powergamz? I'm not interested in attacking the USA here as, somehow, the 'root cause' of 'gang rapes'. I'm not going to be leading a team of Redcoats across the Atlantic anytime soon. One reason that I'm not interested in calling this type of horror a peculiarly 'American phenomenon' is because that would be a cretinous point of view and I am not a cretin. All I commented on was what I thought might be an exaggerated phenomenon in certain *American* films about certain *American* football team members and gang rape. I was suspicious about stereotyping - but, apparently, more suspicious than I needed to have been: the reality, here, is actually worse than the film I saw depicting something similar about a decade ago. It's even worse than the Jodie Foster film, "The Accused" - which is some frigging achievement.

I saw the link, looked at the evidence, and noticed that similar sorts of crimes had occurred in Japan. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the same kind of hideousness occurred here in the UK, too. But I would suggest that they're *most* likely to occur wherever certain factors are involved: such as a group of young males, in a competitive, aggressive setting; one which has a lot of social support (even admiration) behind it . . . .

Yes, I'd think the required ingredients are more likely to come together in, for instance, a setting where the males involved are the sons of the town's bigwigs and are applauded by the school/college and the whole town - and where there exists a culture of e.g. 'football scholarships' - something which is alien to UK school/college culture.

But, for what it's worth: for me, all the required ingredients are there in their strongest form amongst groups of soldiers in a war. Plus a few extras - like the sanctioning of ultimate violence.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1

Bullshit, I directly quoted your exact words, and added nothing.

That is exactly what you said, *after* the link about the Japanese school rapes, and star rapists across the globe were posted... (not to mention the public gang rapes in India being all over the headlines). It is an international problem, period.

Either you knew that and chose to misprepresent it, or you chose to keep your head in the sand about the scope of the problem. Either way is repugnant.

No offence, but could you please strive to be a little less paranoid, Powergamz? I'm not interested in attacking the USA here as, somehow, the 'root cause' of 'gang rapes'. I'm not going to be leading a team of Redcoats across the Atlantic anytime soon. One reason that I'm not interested in calling this type of horror a peculiarly 'American phenomenon' is because that would be a cretinous point of view and I am not a cretin. All I commented on was what I thought might be an exaggerated phenomenon in certain *American* films about certain *American* football team members and gang rape. I was suspicious about stereotyping - but, apparently, more suspicious than I needed to have been: the reality, here, is actually worse than the film I saw depicting something similar about a decade ago. It's even worse than the Jodie Foster film, "The Accused" - which is some frigging achievement.

I saw the link, looked at the evidence, and noticed that similar sorts of crimes had occurred in Japan. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the same kind of hideousness occurred here in the UK, too. But I would suggest that they're *most* likely to occur wherever certain factors are involved: such as a group of young males, in a competitive, aggressive setting; one which has a lot of social support (even admiration) behind it . . . .

Yes, I'd think the required ingredients are more likely to come together in, for instance, a setting where the males involved are the sons of the town's bigwigs and are applauded by the school/college and the whole town - and where there exists a culture of e.g. 'football scholarships' - something which is alien to UK school/college culture.

But, for what it's worth: for me, all the required ingredients are there in their strongest form amongst groups of soldiers in a war. Plus a few extras - like the sanctioning of ultimate violence.

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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1

Lots of people manage to have discussions about the violence and brutality that the human race wallows in, without singling out one specific race, nationality, or religion as their first move in the blame game.

Try it sometime.