Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy established by the Obama administration in June 2012. DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

All so he can be seen to be dismantling Obama's work and to appease his racist followers.

It's all part of the plan to make America great white again!

A central tenet of advocates seeking greater accountability for sexual assault is that the complainant is virtually always the one telling the truth. As a 2014 White House report, “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action,” stated, “Only 2–10 percent of reported rapes are false.” Campus materials aimed at students make similar assertions.

But as Michelle J. Anderson, the president of Brooklyn College and a scholar of rape law, acknowledged in a 2004 paper in the Boston University Law Review, “There is no good empirical data on false rape complaints either historically or currently.” The data have not improved since that time. In a 2015 working paper, Lieutenant Colonel Reggie Yager, a U.S. Air Force judge advocate who has defended men accused of sexual assault, took a comprehensive look at the research on the incidence of false rape reports, and concluded that the studies confirming the overwhelming veracity of accusers are methodologically unsound.

Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. . . . After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim lies; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it on herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on.

We are still in an era of battles over who will be granted the right to speak and the right to be believed, and pressure comes from both directions. From the “men’s rights” movement and a lot of popular misinformation comes the baseless notion that there is an epidemic of groundless accusations of sexual assault. The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims. The framework is reminiscent of that attached to voter fraud, a crime so rare in the United States that it appears to have had no significant impact on election outcomes in a very long time.

A friend of mine who works in sexual-harassment prevention training at a major university reports that when she gave a presentation at the business school on her campus, one of the older male professors asked, “Why would we start an investigation based on only one woman’s report?” She has dozens of stories like this, and others about women — students, employees, professors, researchers — struggling to be believed, especially when they testify against high-status offenders.

This summer, antediluvian columnist George Will claimed that there is only a “supposed campus epidemic of rape,” and that when universities or feminists or liberals “make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.” Young women replied by creating the Twitter hashtag #survivorprivilege, posting remarks such as “I didn’t realize it was a privilege to live with PTSD, severe anxiety & depression” and “#ShouldIBeQuiet because when i spoke out everyone said it was a lie?” Will’s column hardly even constitutes a twist on the old idea that women are naturally unreliable, that there’s nothing to see in all these rape charges, and that we should just move along.

I should have offered proof, as though proof were possible. I am like bad people who distort facts. I am subjective but believe I am objective; I feel but confuse feeling with thinking or knowing. It’s such a familiar litany and a familiar rage.

If we could recognize or even name this pattern of discrediting, we could bypass recommencing the credibility conversation every time a woman speaks.

If you're a right wing authoritarian reading this, you'll be offended for whatever reason, perhaps because the feminists are coming to get you (and your church). Everyone else will realise that thousands of survivors are failed by the system, and they need support and frameworks to help them come forward, male and female.

1) limited political pluralism; that is, such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups;
2) a basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency;
3) minimal social mobilization most often caused by constraints on the public such as suppression of political opponents and anti-regime activity;
4) informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers.

See, this middle road is such a dangerous ideology in itself, not because it assumes that experts should be making all the practical decisions, but because it gives into the false equivalency of balance that legitimises the views of those like PP. Democracy itself exists for a reason, and you should get off the fence.

View which disagree with my own are a false equivalency.

fair enough

not sure other republican presidents would do it though, without the seeming vendetta trump has to destroy everything obama did

Yet another enlightened post from the RWA.

PP your interpretation of rape culture is that rape is endorsed explicitly by a society. Wrong.

Your interpretation of psychological literature regarding RWAs is very poor.

The nature of their "historical and current privilege" is not and has never been relevant to the content of their rights.

"championing" traditional family values.

going to brawl in the streets with someone exercising their inalienable rights, in a civilised democracy, you are the problem. Even, and perhaps especially, when those views are taboo or morally reprehensible.

I haven't seen you attempt to point out the glaring faults in the s*** you post champ. for example

PP your interpretation of rape culture is that rape is endorsed explicitly by a society. Wrong.

Your interpretation of psychological literature regarding RWAs is very poor.

Wrong. History and politics play an important role in developing or recognizing rights, and the discussion about which behaviours are included as "rights" is an ongoing political topic of importance. The concept of rights varies with political orientation.

A great insight into where you, and the rest of your camp, get your moral compass from - authority.

There is no a need for a big ego, you are not under threat.

He'll exhaust you with wall of texts and then think he's destroying you.

Just so you know phooks, calling me an RWA isn't getting under my skin.

Where's the end of that thought process?

the far left and the far right actually being pretty close to each other.

violence begets violence.

policies of deterrence also come at a very high economic cost to Australia and have a significant negative impact on Australia’s strategic interests internationally.

You do however keep arguing against it's very existence, and trying to fight for the same phenomenon in left wingers, which is the -exact- response you would expect from an RWA. Hence the funny.

I know so far only one of the groups has committed a terrorist act.

At the moment we have a rogue president who has vocally supported the nazis

One of the fundamental principles underpinning modern society is that the state has a monopoly on violence other than self defence.

You might think you're doing a "good" when you punch hitler 2.0 and in a world where 100% of the population agrees you're punching hitler 2.0 maybe you are. What if only 90% of the population agrees with you? 60%? 30%?

Internet toughguy posturing aside surely you're intelligent enough to see how stupid that sort of idea is?

I'm not pro-slavery but the abolitionists go too far. What we really need is a supercommittee to reform the plantations. #CivilWarCentrists

— Nick Wolfe (@wvmerica) November 19, 2013

Markets are sending negative signals on emancipation #CivilWarCentrists

— M.H.Ibrahim (@MaatMHI) November 19, 2013

#CivilWarCentrists Lincoln is masquerading as the real hero in a situation that he is only worsening with his liberal rhetoric.

— Wes Jones (@iamwpj) November 19, 2013

RT: @Fixthedebt Slavery might be wrong, but if we abolished it, the debt would explode! (Also, old people should starve). #CivilWarCentrists

— Phoinix 🌹 (@PhoinixArt) November 19, 2013

Lincoln is right to tackle large slave plantations, but small mom-and-pop slave drivers should be protected #CivilWarCentrists

— Robert Nielsen (@rapn21) November 19, 2013

There is no danger *at all* of Nazis holding sway in the US now or in the future.

In case you don't understand my point again PP

how neo-nazis shape policy (because they don't in anyway at all) or did it talk about how they exist. Because I'm talking about one and not the other. 

"First they came for the Nazis" just doesn't have that same ring to it, you know?

Trogs centrist paradise be like:

Then there are people like Trog who believe Free Speech is founded on Righteousness and everyone should be really nice to each other.

Brendon O'Neil referred to this a couple of nights ago on Facebook.

Let's laugh at the Liberals, that's always fun

Interesting to see the contrast between how the Greens senators handled it compared to everyone else. It shows who has at least some moral integrity.

A Coalition for Marriage meeting in Melbourne was last night stormed by gay-marriage protesters yelling "crucify the Christians" and waving a banner declaring: "Burn churches, not queers". Meanwhile, a Mormon church is vandalised with vote-yes grafitti.

^ Yes, save the gay, brown, muslim whales, and f*** everyone else.

FYI thanks to the lobbying power of the Australian Christian Lobby

PP as a white supremacist this honestly

But who cares about how minorities see the world, rly

what are your thoughts on humanism?

Muslims in Australia don't own oil, nor do muslims across the globe. Arab states own oil. Muslims in australia are a minority, maybe like a few percentage points?

Not really. A joke is a joke. Advocating for violence is not a joke.

The statement itself implies that gays are, in fact, the ones who are being burnt. By the churches. Which they have been through most of history. And the statement was made by lesbians who were smiling and kissing each other in front of Christians - something Christians, who have historically burnt gays, find peculiarly offensive.

would replacing churches with mosques still be a joke.

You know they weren't protesting the members of the inquisition who actually burnt gays right? Or is that a step of logic too far.

replacing churches with mosques still be a joke

Black Americans are killing Black Americans
why doesnt he 'take a knee' over that ?

NFL ratings are Way down, I wonder why ?

to be fair, what else is left for the fake neoliberal left than to spruik globalization, immigration, gay marriage, …?

they cannot even talk about traditional left ideas (economic inequality, labour exploitation, workers rights, nationalization of public services …) because they are true neoliberals who are in pockets of the rich. To create appearance of democracy and political choice they have to somehow differentiate themselves from right wing neoliberals that share their economic policies.
There are very few differences left between right and left mainstream politics these day so they have to pursue extremes on those few unimportant issues.

American gun deaths are a f*****g joke. Police, civilian, massacre ... doesn't matter. America's attachment to armaments is ridiculous. Totally valid when they were a developing nation and wild frontier. You know 250 years ago!

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi has defended an anti same-sex marriage robocall campaign as normal political practice, but maintains last weekend’s Yes campaign text message was “invasive”.

(although no doubt on Twitter & elsewhere the Russian hordes have amplified the message that football is now, indeed, boring.

who is more outraged about Macklemore doing his nice gay song at the footy gf, cory or tone, or are they EQUALLY OUTRAGED!?

hahaha, i cant even fathom how their brain works.

Remember that time Macklemore dressed as a nazi propaganda jew?

I am into free speech ... presumably two songs should be played, one for gay marriage and one against gay marriage, Mr Dutton said.

Seems to be making a bunch of homophobes upset though which is always a good thing.

I happen to agree it'd be useful to respond to the article itself

but moreover the host of a show that nightly politicizes everything complaining about total politcs is an irony supernova

But that's the nature of total politics. It aims to polarise, then rails against those who dare oppose it. And in this process of making political heat from small moments, it obscures the biggest political questions there are.

But if taking the knee is meant to convey anything, it is precisely that the continued unaccountable violence of the state against black Americans – and now the President's flirtations with white supremacists – mean many athletes cannot feel the nation really does encompass them, so much as it dominates them.

Arguments over free speech on campus are not left v right. As Reed College in Oregon shows, left v left clashes can be equally vitriolic: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21728688-reed-college-oregon-shows-left-v-left-clashes-can-be-equally-vitriolic-arguments

Assistant professor Lucia Martinez Valdivia, who describes herself as mixed-race and queer, asked protesters not to demonstrate during her lecture on Sappho last November. Ms Valdivia said she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and doubted her ability to deliver the lecture in the face of their opposition. At first, demonstrators announced they would change tactics and sit quietly in the audience, wearing black. After her speech, a number of them berated her, bringing her to tears.

today fpot lubed up and rubbed one out to the Vice President of the United States of America walked out of a football game because a black person dared to protest peacefully against murder. Meanwhile white supremacists marched again in Charlottesville.

Did you guys know quotas are evil and racist, we've already got equality, and women/blacks/immigrants are just biologically bad at things?

https://i.redd.it/n501hhrjr0rz.png

For those new to Trumpspeak this is what's known as a "whataboutism"

Go to r_thedonald or r_proudboys

you'll often see the what about jews and asians argument trotted out.

The Harvey Weinstein thing is driving the alt-right crazy at the moment. On one hand a man is facing justice for sexually harassing a woman, but on the other it's a whataboutism tool that can be used to minimise Trump's actions. Must be really hard for them to decide which way to go with it.

...and people wonder why the Democrat Party keeps going backwards Hollywood Liberal Hypocrites

It's about time politicians started to tell mass media to jam it. People who are too busy working to support the dole bludgers and rent a crowds don't watch the news as much as the dole bludgers and rent a crowds . Thus the news tugs on the heart string messages of the entitled so they go out and waste money on the dumb things that are advertised between whatever negative rubbish they can find.. then they it off with a smiling puppy.

The model is used world wide because people want to know the negatives, it's helps with their concept that the world is stuffed, and that their s***** life is a result of external influences. When in fact they make choices everyday that determine how s***** their life is going to be. No matter how much money we pump into educating children, there are still s***** parents passing on 'lower form' genetics and behaviours that will make it harder for them to break the 's***** cycle'. They are a 'breed' in some ways. We have "White Trash".. so i'm not saying it's a race thing. All races have s***** people, and all races should stop being so tolerant of these parasites and social f'ups.

it's about time politicians started to tell mass media to jam it.

I propose not all be allow to breed, and some be sterilised.

That's how you keep Capitalism functioning.

Also thought this was on topic for you trog: The Russian Troll Farm that Weaponised Facebook had American Boots on the Ground

I have long been suspicious about antifa being paid Russian agitators or right wing false flaggers anyway :D

That is true. You can anticipate and plan everything, but when you actually experience it, it's different. For me, my office isn't first and foremost a political or technical one. Rather, it is symbolic. I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don't mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives. If you like, post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one. Since then, trust has evaporated in everything and everyone. I am sometimes surprised that it is the media that are the first ones to exhibit a lack of trust in grand narratives. They believe that destroying something is part of their journalistic purpose because something grand must inevitably contain an element of evil. Critique is necessary, but where does this hate for the so-called grand narrative come from?

Being Black in America is like playing 'The Game Of Life' on Hard mode. Yeah, choices can make a difference, it's a lot harder though for an average Black person vs an average White person. Surely you must understand that right?

Ms Ardern said her Government wouldn't measure economic success just on things like GDP.

"The measures for us have to change. We need to make sure we are looking at people's ability to actually have a meaningful life, an enjoyable life, where their work is enough to survive and support their families."

The Government's first move would be to introduce its families package, followed by writing child poverty reduction targets into law.

I've not read the judgement yet, but matt canavan was spared the axe. It'll be interesting to see what limitations the court placed on the application of s 44.

I read somewhere that Joyce can just renounce his New Zealand citizenship then stand for election again, which he's expected to win?

I read somewhere that Joyce can just renounce his New Zealand citizenship then stand for election again, which he's expected to win?

Have you ever considered that the way society is structured is the problem

lol is that the best you got? bit of a broken record at this point

I wonder, do you have any principles at all? Or do you just do believe what authority tells you to at any given moment. Maybe tell us why inequality is a good thing hey

My god they are so dumb.

enough responding to the cheap bait. You're triggered.

responding to the cheap bait

triggered

the overwhelming evidence of history shows unequivocally that an exactly equal outcome society is a nightmare realized.

wrong phooks the whole money system is a self-sustaining failure

This quote is as close as you've ever come to realising what you really stand for PP. I do encourage you to reflect on it.

This quote is as close as you've ever come to realising what you really stand for PP. I do encourage you to reflect on it.

Yeah it shows in all his posts.

I do encourage you to reflect on it.

the fact is Russia has made a deliberate attempt to destabilize America's democracy which should be concerning to all.