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Please explain to me how I don't "understand statistics." In no way was I addressing or defending the wholesale scanning or mining of data; I was simply addres
by mjolk 11y ago
Please explain to me how I don't "understand statistics." In no way was I addressing or defending the wholesale scanning or mining of data; I was simply addressing uhtred's statement.
Politics is largely the use of emotional appeal in a democracy -- you don't get elected on a stance of "well, if we understand the data."
>Third, "pedophile" or "sex offender" are terms you can get saddled with very easily in the US for a whole range of behaviors including things like giving a child a lost child a hug to comfort them (oops: now you're a pedophile) or taking a whizz in public (congrats: you're a sex offender).
Please, link me to a case in which a person giving a lost child a hug led to charges. I would earnestly like to read it because I think you're being clumsily dishonest.
>Finally, even the worst and most guilty among us deserve to have their rights protected because those are OUR rights when WE get accused of something heinous of which we are not guilty.
And now you're just using a truism as frosting to your argument. You're framing this in a "either you care about paedophiles or you don't care about OUR rights."
- Buge 11y ago>Please, link me to a case in which a person giving a lost child a hug led to charges. I would earnestly like to read it because I think you're being clumsily dishonest. Pedophile isn't a legal term. Men get "straddled with the term pedophile" for simply being in a playground. No one gets charged with being a pedophile because being a pedophile is not illegal.
- mjolk 11y ago>Pedophile isn't a legal term. Men get "straddled with the term pedophile" for simply being in a playground. I sat on a swing earlier this summer and I've never been accused of such things. You created this "man hugs lost child, gets labelled a paedophile" scenario that's just ridiculous.
- Buge 11y agoI never mentioned hugs. But if you want examples of men being accused of being pedophiles for being on playgrounds, or similar things check out these: The first 7 are playgrounds/parks, and the rest are other similar situations. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mkdm7 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mj258 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2ayvaf/kicked_out_of_playground_for_being_a_man/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2ayvaf/kicked_o... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_situations_have_you_been_accused_of/ch8xrmv https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_situations_have_you_been_accused_of/ch8w17d https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaV4saiEHkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaV4saiEHkQ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mk9e5 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mjf7q https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mkb7n https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mjp0e https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_situations_have_you_been_accused_of/ch8zxm5 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mkkkm https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_situations_have_you_been_accused_of/ch9002s https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mhnou https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mkfpz https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mjuth https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mjzcq https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mj605 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw_a_woman_accuse_a_man_of_being_a/c5mk0qc https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/11/creep-shamed-on-facebook-was-actually-man-taking-selfie-with-darth-vader/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/11/creep-shamed-on-...
- mjolk 11y agoYoutube and reddit have a shaky relationship to reality.
- lotharbot 11y ago"people on the internet aren't real"? My own comments on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4133027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4133027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003797