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And yet you haven't actually shown how or why. Just that you believe they are because apparently you (erroneously) believe only LWers support transgender rights. But first you must show how that is a LW thing, but it's impossible to do because one of one my nerdy e-buddies here is just as far RW as I am LW (we're both far out in the outfield) and he is supportive of trans rights.
Ever notice how Chappelle refers to transgender as their identified sex and even defended trans people while kicking the trans-racial thing/Rachel Dolezal under the bus?
In 33 states, loopholes exempt clergy from reporting child sex abuse
This loophole has resulted in an unknown number of predators being allowed to continue abusing children for years despite having confessed the behavior to religious officials. In many of these cases, the privilege has been invoked to shield religious groups from civil and criminal liability...www.wbur.org
Schools have mandatory reporting laws.
Churches protect pedophiles with clergy privileges.
Children are and can be abused by almost anyone. It is how institutions deal with that risk that matters Church's tend to protect the abusers instead of the victims.
I am not asking you to get behind the people who made the film. I am asking for you to get behind stopping child sex trafficking.
I agree. We need to somehow get politicians to talk about it and be part of the discussion in elections.
So many are using this topic to make political points instead of actually engaging in the problem, that is part of the problem.
So you don't believe children are being sex trafficked in the US?
Right of center does not mean far right. Forbes is very much a traditional conservative establishment, one of a few among a dying breed. Today's so called conservatives are really only right-wing populist reactionaries.Forbes is "right of center"?
Workplace Strategies For Transgender Inclusion
June marks Pride Month, serving not just as a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, but also a call to action.www.forbes.com
No, I didn't say that it never happened. But it appears to be grossly exaggerated, as has been shown with the maker of the movie. Your sources on the face of them are not the sort of sources one goes to for solid claims in these matters. The FBI would be the ultimate source for that sort of crime since it breaks federal law.So you don't believe children are being sex trafficked in the US?
20 staggering facts about human trafficking in the US
We've compiled a number of staggering facts about what's really going on with human trafficking in the US, also known as modern day slavery.www.businessinsider.com
Stopping child sex trafficking is a worthwhile endeavour. It should be stopped!
Some people do not understand that opposing a hyped up film that lies about a self promoting group is not opposition to ending child sex trafficking. It exists. It is far rarer than the hypers would have you believe. Most people reporting it are going to be parents concerned about their runaway children. Are their concerns real? Yes. Very much so. Too many underaged children will turn to the sex trades. That does not mean that they are being trafficked. Many of them will try to do this alone. Or even with a boyfriend. That is not organized trafficking. The cure for that is a stronger social services safety net. Not law enforcement. Shut down the source and you cure most of that problem.
Politics is intrinsically woven into any call for political action. And giving into calls of emotion like 'think of the children' without due critical evaluation is how we got things like Pizzagate. You got amped up to the topic by what is essentially a piece of political propaganda peddled by two wing nuts with an agenda. Who quite literally exaggerated the severity of the problem and pointed towards solutions motivated by usual religious and far right ideologies.
No, we need to do the talking so the politicians take note. And talking while supporting and promoting lying vigalantees who themselves are doing a lot of harm and destruction isn't how we go about it.
Asking me to? I already am and it didn't take watching a movie from a group of deranged liars to get me there.
Hmm that’s kind of what I’ve seen the criticism of this film be, from actual experts in that field
It is an old formula, and then they wonder why the critics bash them. Either grossly overstate or misstate a problem. Second claim that the hero of the film has had way more success fighting this problem than any reliable source gives him credit for. One quote I saw in my scanning of various articles was that law enforcement claimed that there was almost zero contribution in their successes by OURS.
I mean on the one hand I can understand why these films exist. This is a very heavily dark topic, movies or books providing a hero’s journey answer makes us all feel good. Like there is an easy solution and thus we can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that we somehow “helped” by a donation to some group or whatever
Agreed. So many minds have been enraptured by the political beasts that many people just can't think straight when it comes to these problems. Pragmatism and practicality completely go out the window when minds are seized in such a manner, except when it comes to short-term political victories and ways to raise money to feed the political beasts. Actually addressing the problems being neglected will first require people being enraptured to make some real effort on the part of those individuals regarding getting a handle on their own minds.