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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.
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
I've seen commentary about the rape culture in India in their media and media personalities. The movie Robot had a pretty heavy bus scene and the whole movie seems like it's skirting around the India censorship board. Indian actresses will sometimes comment on the topic, but get told it's embarrassing to bring it up.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/7/10/indias-bollywood-speaks-out-against-rape
Off screen, its stars have usually avoided commenting on sensitive social and political issues. However, the anti-rape protests following the 2012 Delhi gang-rape have led to a noticeable change.
A handful of stars, like Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, were known for their social activism, but in the year-and-a-half since the Delhi gang-rape, others have spoken out. Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has thrown her weight behind an emergency cellphone app for women’s safety; others have taken to the streets in demonstrations; and some like Abraham have used other media platforms to air their protest against rape.
There's over 1.5 billion people there and the British Empire connection means they're in the Anglosphere media. By raw numbers yes of course there's a lot of crime, there's a lot of pretty much everything.
Also to be fair, they are being executed.
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.
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.
how was the posted story racist?
it's not the story that's racist, it's the magazine that is. they select stories based on whether they fit their narrative, which is that foreigners = evil, and that's why they're even reporting about this.
this has nothing to do with reporting about facts; this has everything to do with manipulating people to think in a certain way.
There's always a fash trying to sanewash The Rag.
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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.
And people wonder why many don't want to travel to certain countries. WTF.
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
The vast majority of people are ignorant, stupid, or both. Once you stop expecting the world will live up to any minimum standard of behavior, then you free yourself of much mental load.
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And that's why all those victim blamers need to punished.
Pakistan executes rapists, we elect them.
"We" do not as I am not from the US, nor are many other lemmings.
As long as OP is from the US, the sentence is correct.
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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.
They executed a Christian dude for not giving a guy a discount for being a muslim. Apparently during the argument, he committed "blasphemy"
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It is a failed state that borrows money from the west
Close, replace borrows with funded, they're funded by the west, US particularly
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Pakistanis who gang-raped
It's two guys.
Please don't ever post this disgusting racist rag.
Ok? Are you saying it's racist because it said they were pakistani? That's not racism.
I'm not them and I don't want to be , but the daily mail is kind of racist tbqh.
Stating the race isn't racist, no. But there was also no need to state their race. Does the fact that they were pakistani have any impact on the fact that they raped somebody? Or does it just associate rape with brown people? This appeals to racists and inflames their beliefs that other races are bad. They dont write "two white men" when its two white men, do they?
So yeah, In isolation, it is absolutely not racist. But given all the existing context, and the push to cause division and hatred to distract us from whats going on upstairs, this is absolutely racist.
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.
Not the commenting person, but many problems can stack. If they were white rich men, the headline would probably be along the lines of
"French Woman who engaged in sexual relations in front of her children, sues partners and wins in court."
In this case, the French(white, tourist therefore rich) woman just happens to be higher in the totem pole than the Pakistani(therefore not white) criminal men.
So the headline will just punch from low to lower, to reinforce the totem pole.
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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