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What shortage of outrage, energy and money is there? What necessary action is not being taken which you want people to demand? I struggle to think of a single
by jjk166 6y ago
What shortage of outrage, energy and money is there? What necessary action is not being taken which you want people to demand?
I struggle to think of a single issue with more universal public support at all levels of society. But there isn't really a way to prevent an unknown and variable group of people from sharing an unknown and variable set of files over an unknown and variable set of communication channels.
- mc32 6y agoAbuse comes in a many forms. That is all but one. See young athletes, actors, actresses, pupils, summer camps, etc. Where are the hashtags, the calling out of people who harm, where is the teacher training and extirpation of those who pray on the vulnerable within their ranks? Where are the Twitter bans, etc.
- jjk166 6y agoThe hashtags, the public shaming, the teacher training, etc all already exist. But child sexual abusers go to great lengths to hide their activities and even their victims more often than not don't want to talk publicly about what happened to them. Again, you can't take action against people you can't identify, and I don't think we want to encourage people to start throwing unsubstantiated accusations of child sexual abuse at people, nor present evidence of a child's sexual abuse on public forums.
- mc32 6y agoI dunno about you, but I haven’t had any mandatory training assigned by HR. There is sexual harassment training but that’s the extent. I can see them teaching the psychology. How to recognize signs, how to get people to turn themselves in for treatment if that’s the case, how to reach out to professionals if one was a victim, etc. Nope, I haven’t seen national campaigns against it. I have not seen billionaires pour their money into prominent causes. I don’t see celebrities denouncing this scourge at every occasion.