Indeed – we had a UN worker from South Africa on here once, who was outraged when I pointed out that Botswana – where if the UN approach would work anywhere would work there – has a 40% AIDS rate now.
That is the thread I was thinking about when I posted. It has come to a point where being against condom use is seen as equivalent to holding the earth is flat. They are now held to be modern medical science and infallible.
I suggest the first step is to stop telling people there is such a thing as “safe sex” (pardon me, “safer sex”) outside of a faithful marriage.
I am actually disgusted and disturbed by this statement. You start your statement by say you do not wish to be racist but you are scarcely hiding the racist nature of your statement. Perhaps you had better inform yourself of what is going on. When many African nations are torn by wars and that rape of women and children have become common place as war weapon I am shocked that the most you can ask yourself is how they are “all jumping on each other”. What happened to compassion and empathy?I don’t mean to sound racist, but I really do not understand the problem. Why is sexual continence so hard for these African people? I mean in the USA, we are not exactly chaste but I doubt 40% of the even sexually active, non-married crowd is promiscuous (i.e., multiple partners, frequent “risky” sex). There is probably a 15-20% “do anything to anything” group within sexually active non-married people, but serial monogamy is the norm here.
Are they all just jumping on each other like animals over there?
Not familiar with him, but I’d expect that LC is Legionarries of Christ.
This racist remark is in itself a phallacy. Rape is part of the civil unrest other parts of the world as well, for example in the recent outbreaks of violence in the Balkan countries. It is interesting to me that in Iraq and Afghanistan we don’t hear much about rape by the warring factions, while in the Balkans a good part of the population was Christian and rape was endemic.Are they all just jumping on each other like animals over there?
Methinks thou hast a log in thine own eye to deal with too!I do not understand what you are trying to say. I saw the part you bolded, but don’t understand why a woman is not better protected from rape if she is a chattel instead of a second class citizen with no rights of her own except those derived from a "protector’ like a father, brother, etc.?
.Ah! Thank you! With that additional information to go on, I found a news report which mentions him attending a conference and yes, he is with the Legionaries of Christ. Many thanks.
For-crying-out-loud, nothing she said was racist, misinformed, maybe, but not racist. What happened to your charity? Get over yourself.
Actually, this was addressed in the article.I don’t mean to sound racist, but I really do not understand the problem. Why is sexual continence so hard for these African people? I mean in the USA, we are not exactly chaste but I doubt 40% of the even sexually active, non-married crowd is promiscuous (i.e., multiple partners, frequent “risky” sex). There is probably a 15-20% “do anything to anything” group within sexually active non-married people, but serial monogamy is the norm here.
Are they all just jumping on each other like animals over there?
The question is not inherently racist, just poorly worded.
No, I am not trolling. I do that only for fish from a boat. I am still trying to figure out why my remark is somehow an endorsement of women being chattels. All I was saying is that men who hold their wives as chattels would ordinarily not let their “property” be damaged by someone else. How is that an endorsement of ownership of women or slaves.
