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      Gang rape: the rape of one person by several attackers in succession

      Are you quibbling over two vs several? Or are you insinuating the title would be different if they were white? Because I’ve definitely seen the term applied to all races and any number of attackers.

      Personally I don’t think we should worry that much about being politically correct when we’re talking about convicted sexual predators.

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    Maybe headlines like this stick in my head, but it seems there’s a rather large rape problem in Pakistan and India.

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      There’s a very concerted effort by certain European publications to sensationalize crime by immigrants from India and Pakistan. Kinda similar to publications in usa to sensationalize crime by black and muslims

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    The site is called Daily Rag for a reason. They’ve always been running sensationalist and racist stories since its inception:

    “There landed yesterday at Southampton from the transport Cheshire over 600 so-called refugees, their passages having been paid out of the Lord Mayor’s Fund. . .There was scarce a hundred of them that had, by right, deserved such help, and these were the Englishmen of the party. The rest were Jews. . .They fought and jostled for the foremost places at the gangways. . .When the Relief Committee passed by they hid their gold and fawned and whined, and, in broken English, asked for money for their train fare.” Daily Mail, February 3, 1900

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/08/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices

    I can’t find the article, but i remember seeing an anti-refugee headline from them at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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      Yeah.

      The relentless upvoting of tabloids may be my biggest issue with Lemmy. Information hygiene here is terrible, and the users don’t seem to care.

      One time, calling this out, the OP of a news post responded that they didn’t care an article was fake. It was upvoted to the front page and never got removed.

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        Because anyone that talks about how Islam countries actually are and act is “islamiphobeic”. You’re instantly accused of being racist as a shitty defense for pointing out facts. Atheist myself and I think all religions are pieces of shit, but Islam as practiced in modern times is factually probably one of the worst religions. People of all religions do horrible things, but the amount of cruelty, murder, and rape under the guise of Sharia law is absolutely unparalleled in the modern world.

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          Average enlightened Westerner. You’re probably posting this from a taken land in the US, a slave owning setller colonial state built on the blood of at least 150 million true americans.

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            i mean i’m not OP but to further your point i live in california and the entire town i live in used to be a [not saying the tribe] graveyard. Every time they zone an area for new houses the tribe comes out, searches the land, and rehomes the artifacts.

            we joke about having a ghost in our microwave. it’s one of those touchpad bullshits instead of real buttons. so if you use the microwave while cooking, with dirty hands, and leave a smudge, well. The fun part is that you don’t know when it will turn itself back on thinking a greasy smudge is a real finger touch. We’ve named the “ghost” Jeff and think it’s absolutely absurd.

            so like, living in a house with a haunted microwave on an ancient indian graveyard? Yeah, that’s me.

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    Tge entire Indian subcontinent is unsafe for women w/o a good justice system. Marital rape is still legal in India.

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      “We” do not as I am not from the US, nor are many other lemmings.

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      One instance doesn’t mean Pakistan is for women. This incident happened in 2020. It’s just because of the protests that led to the arrests.

      Pakistanis will kill a woman for being a Hindu. It’s a one religion state. Pakistan also sponsors terrorism and extreme Jihadists who believe women must wear burkhas all the time. It is a failed state that borrows money from the west just to keep itself floating and sponsor terrorism.

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    It also led to mass protests across Pakistan, after a policeman questioned why the woman had been out late on her own.

    The day after the attack, a senior police official in Lahore, Umer Sheikh, appeared in front of the media and implied the woman was partly to blame.

    He questioned why she had not taken a busier road, given that she was alone with her young children.

    Man what a terrible take. Her car broke down, she had the doors locked, and they broke the windows and dragged her out before raping her at gunpoint. She was also a foreign tourist, and can’t be expected to know all the good/bad parts of town imo.

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      why do tourist still go to these places?

      like a brown person going to America in 2026

      like i’m not blaming her and fuck that cop but why would you risk going there, minorities coming for the world cup are crazy given current america

      or people that visit north korea

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          The kind of idiot who supports pigs WOULD be the kind of person still using retard as an insult in 2026. Zero thought, zero maturity.

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            You’re wrong, because the only reason I haven’t called the guy you’re responding to ret*rded is out of respect for the people who might read this comment.

            ACAB

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    We should do the same. No place for ppl like that in any civile society. Either death sentence or castration plus prison

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      We should do the same. No place for ppl like that

      Are you in the US? I have some bad news for you then…

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        Nop.I’m in an european country that way too lenient with criminals. Recent case we have an active disparition alert of a 10yo. The suspect had several complaint against him send to the police for several rape on multiple minor. This was more than on year ago. Nothing had been done. He was never auditioned. Coountry is France.

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        We have litteral tool that doesn’t let any doubt regarding that matter. It s such a terrible bad argument that it never applied in any other situation.

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          Could just have a death sentence be only passed when there’s beyond doubt of guilt

          This is the reason civil societies have mostly done away with the death penalty, simply because we cannot ever be 100% we have the guilty people. We like to think the court systems are infallible, but they sure arent.

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            I’d say it’s probably the biggest argument against the death penalty tbh. But then, at the same time, innocent people have died serving life sentences also.

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          Aren’t all conviction in US beyond doubt like… by definition? And there are always reviews and appeals and request for clemency to heads of states. And innocent people were executed many many times.

          Isn’t all this common knowledge by now?

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            At some point saying that we ard only sure at 99.99% and not 100% so we fan t do anything about it is utterly ridiculous. No system is perfect and yet u use that argument at the age of cctv dna test and so on

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              You can do plenty of things but in a civilized country we tend not to punish people in brutal ways just to get some satisfaction. We isolate them, make sure they can’t hurt anyone and try to rehabilitate them.

              And we do this, among other things, because systems are not perfect and doing irreversible harm to people is problematic. Even with CCTV and DNA tests.

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                For context, I’m thinking more of a recent murder case that happened in the UK. Basically a sikh guy stabbed a British student, then called the police on him accusing him of racism. Police arrived and handcuffed the dying student as he bled out, dying on the ground in handcuffs. The Sikh’s family were complicit

                Obviously, a whole myriad of immigration tension has arisen again (happened with the southport stabbings also) and people are rioting.

                I think if we publicly executed people who carried out these atrocities, it would quench the general public’s bloodthirst and restore order, hopefully reducing hate crimes on the innocent immigrants.

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                Doing irrevserible harm to ppl is problematic ☝️🤓

                Pls, no country on earth has the ressource to rehabilitate every criminal nor they should try. U cant just look me in the eyes and say to me yeah he was a neo nazi that killed 20 ppl in a place of cult but have you thinking about his rehabilitation and how horrible you will be if you think it will be a net positive for society if we kill him ?

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                  Mother of god you really are a fucking moron… Every day I grow more ABs more weary existing here.

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          Implying people get locked up when there is still reasonable doubt? That sounds like a massive problem.

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      No place for them in society as they were, but rehabilitation is always possible, always desired. There will be a place for them after rehabilitation.

      We have to trust that system. If we don’t, then what’s the point of prisons in the first place? If nobody can ever change, then they’ll always just remain a threat and there’s no sense keeping everyone in prisons indefinitely. Either we believe they can rehabilitate or we should just kill everyone who’s ever unfit for society, I suppose, no?

      Ceremonial killing, executions, are an antithesis to the concept of prisons, rehabilitation. It’s never just, if we have a belief that people can and will change.

      Its only use would be to act as a scare of some sort, but a lifetime of forced life, contained in cells, always watched, always mistreated, never a chance for a dignified life, is way more of a scare than death. Death is easy. Death is quick. It’s merciful in comparison.

      A temporary stay at a prison without the belief of anyone being able to rehabilitate, is just deferring and allowing further crimes and violence in future.

      So we have to believe people can change. Because they can, and they do.

      And if we hold that belief, killing is not only killing the misfit in question, today, but also any potential good deeds and meaningful life they might’ve lead after rehabilitation. It’s killing someone, in future, who deserves not to die.

      I never understand people who advocate for temporary jail stints and death sentences at the same time. It never makes sense, it’s irrational.

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        what’s the point of prisons in the first place

        Depends on who you ask. But, there’s plenty of people that believe strongly in a punitive system. Prison is primarily for punishment and retribution–the state empowering the (assumed) revenge desires of the victims. If there was a painless way to execute someone they wouldn’t want to use it; the suffering of the convicted is a feature, not a bug.

        I agree with you that we should focus and rehabilitation and restoration, but the U.S. prison-industrial complex is not actually currently oriented with that being the primary purposes.

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        Oh my god

        Rehabilitation is always possible.

        No it s not and even some ppl don’t deserve it simply. When u do some heinous shit you pay the conséquence for it and your wellbeing and repentance isn’t my concern.

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          Right, so you say some deserve the chance and some don’t. Who or what makes the call? I bet the Arab countries that lynch homosexuals for example, they think and reason the same as you. So their well-being isn’t your concern? Or do you consider yourself the better moral compass? Should you make all the calls then? Or do you simultaneously judge others making the same rationale, but with different principles/rules, and advocate for the very same thing but with yours? You are fine with the dissonance, then?

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            You think pedophile shouylkd be shot omg what horrible person you are im sure you think the same about homosexual. Basically your argument. Some crime are so horrible and against any possible once of humanity that yes they should deserve death. I dont see any dissonance and u trying to make one by comparing me with some third world country is dishonest.

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              I mean, if I asked them about it, their answer would likely be the very same as yours. They just have different view on what crimes are so horrible as to deserve death, otherwise it’s the same argument.

              I’m not trying to dishonestly compare or liken you to them or anyone for that matter. Just trying to make you aware that their reasoning is the same, so the question I have is, which one of you is right, or are both right? And if not both, who makes the objective call on all these thresholds of horribleness that demand executions.

              Which is to say, we can’t eat our cake and have it too. You can’t just say death is fine for my reasons, but not for someone else’s reasons, because that is dishonest. Either executions are fine, or they aren’t, but anything in between is just trying to have it both ways and assuming that your point of view is the better one than the others’ who do this same argument and ideology. Which is fair and all, you are you, these are subjective things. But the subjectivity is precisely what makes it such a disingenuous argument in the first place. Everybody defines those lines that get crossed, differently. Then based on whose point of view do we make the calls? It’s not obvious, it’s never going to be unanimous, and it will lead to further conflict and disdain in the long run, as we very well know and see ourselves, today.

              But it’s a valid stance, it’s very human, I’m not saying you are wrong to think so. It’s just not very rational, is what I’m saying, which makes it, in my opinion, not a good argument for things that lead to deaths of people…

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                I understand the point you making. But I think we fan clearly and with a large majority agree on some case that deserve death sentence. Like for terrorism, répéter offense of murder rape and pedophilia. I dont think saying thoses are subjective but rather objective. I think the stance of we shouldn’t kill anyone cause somme could disagree is a weak argument. Some ppl think rape is ok, that doesn’t mean it should be ok or we shouldn’t punish it.

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                  Many who are against the death penalty have issues on several fronts. If its found the conviction was in error then there is not reversing it. The response that well only for cases we are sure but its impossible to have that as we run into the lack of perfecttion both in our legal system and the people agreeing on when we are sure. After that there is if rehabilitation is possible and some believe its always possible. Then also you simply have the acceptance of group murder or institutional murder. The state as a collective is doing a thing that would be a crime from an individual but its fine because its the group or state (generally the state would not allow it from a group as well). With that its the hypocrisy of it. Now of course the state is allowed to go to war but usually that is predicated on a right to defend onesself.

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      Uh, what? No-one but you mentioned politics or religion.

      Pakistan has a serious problem with rape culture, which is far worse for Pakistani women than for tourists.

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          No, it isn’t. However this event lead to discussion and protests about the problem in Pakistan. The international media attention is partly why - local society may judge a local woman but international society was rightfully horrified, including about the victim blaming rhetoric from the police.

          Cultural change is a slow process and requires some form of pressure, but maybe the media coverage and the incredibly harsh judgement was enough for some men to rethink and not hurt women, and for more women to step forward when they are hurt. So hate the Daily Mail if you want but please don’t be dismissive of such an important topic.

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              Please stop with the what-aboutism. The reporting is on a particular event that involved a tourist, so the relevant country is being highlighted. In the same way, France was highlighted regarding the poor French woman whose husband drugged her and organised her rapes. If a similar event occurred in another country, they would be in focus. Talkng about the issue in the abstract is unfortunately rarely a catalyst for change.

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        this happened in 2021, weird to post it today though right?

        edit: it was actually in 2020, crazy how so many “journalists” are now intrigued about a specific case in Pakistan.

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          There is new information though? As another comment to this OP explains:

          …2021, when the original verdict was made. The Daily Mail update here is just saying that the appeal failed and the death sentence is confirmed.

          I don’t know the reasoning behind OP’s posting it now, but it seems a legitimate issue to be aware of. Especially if the police are blaming the woman for not knowing that it was a bad area to be in, despite all the precautions taken.