[From article]
Far from being an epidemic, sexual assault today happens at a rate about one-third that of 20 years ago, and rape seems to happen less often on college campuses than it does elsewhere. That should not be entirely surprising: Rape, like other crimes, tends to disproportionately affect people who are poor and non-white. As expected, the evidence points to sexual assault’s being more common in poor rural areas, Indian reservations, poor urban areas, etc. It is also more common where people tend to be relatively isolated, with Alaska having the nation’s highest rate of sexual assault.
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the Left does not care if they are lies. The Left believes that lies can serve a greater truth, e.g., Stephen Schneider’s infamous plea in Discover that climate activists mislead the public in the service of bringing them to the right side in the global-warming debate.
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We know — for a fact — that people sometimes lie about having been raped, just as they lie about all sorts of things. Horrible as it is, that is a fact, and one that cannot simply be set aside for reasons of ideological expedience.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394115/bad-journalism-even-if-it-were-true-kevin-d-williamson
Bad Journalism, Even If It Were True
By Kevin D. Williamson
National Review
December 5, 2014 6:05 PM
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