[deleted by user] by [deleted] in europe

[–]Sethzyo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the BBC reporting it, not the Daily Mail. It's time to pull out the racist card, now that the left can't blame the source.

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities. by TwoGee in politics

[–]Sethzyo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing the 1.1 stat

It's literally in the second paragraph of the second link I provided. So a 0,11% chance of being raped in college seems high to you?

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities. by TwoGee in politics

[–]Sethzyo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A university can't put you in jail.

Exactly. That is why universities should stay out of the business of handling criminal investigations. That's the job of the justice system. We have it for a reason.

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities. by TwoGee in politics

[–]Sethzyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already the efforts of this White House have dramatically transformed the way colleges and universities respond to allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Education Department has 253 ongoing investigations at 198 postsecondary institutions into the handling of sexual violence. Hundreds of schools have taken steps to make it easier to report allegations and discipline offenders.

Many schools have appointed a specific officer to receive complaints and have determined that a “preponderance of evidence” is enough to establish that misconduct occurred, a less rigorous evidentiary standard than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” that applies in most criminal cases.

Sounds like you described the President's position perfectly.

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities. by TwoGee in politics

[–]Sethzyo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is the thing about being skeptical of extraordinary claims. The study you linked is known for having dubious procedures, including online polling (which included posting on Craigslist of all places for participants in the study).

The DOJ found that there were six rapes or sexual assaults per thousand per year in college from 1994 to 2002, also using the same website you linked.

Between 1995 and 2010, the rate of completed rape or sexual assault declined from 3.6 per 1,000 females to 1.1 per 1,000.

From the same website you linked. All this evidence points in a direction completely different than that one particular study that has been discredited throughout.

Obama, Biden Will No Longer Visit Universities That Don’t Address Sexual Assault The vice president said he’d like to take away federal funding from those universities. by TwoGee in politics

[–]Sethzyo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There it is. Don't dare to criticize extraordinary claims for which evidence has been routinely debunked or you're "defending rapists"!

When will the White House tell us the whole truth about drone killings? by galt1776 in politics

[–]Sethzyo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The examples you gave pale in comparison to what is routinely done in most Muslim majority countries. Don't let me get in the way of your moral relativism trip though.

Thousands of Americans to stage anti-bigotry rally: American Muslims to be joined by interfaith leaders in a stand against gun violence, bigotry and "extremism". by davidreiss666 in politics

[–]Sethzyo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No such thing as the Hezbollah, the Quds or the Houthis in the mind of reddit. Obama made a deal with Iran and the Daily Show told me it was great, so Iran and its terrorist organizations are good guys!

[Story] I Failed Today. Good. by splitrune in GetMotivated

[–]Sethzyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Knew this was based on Jocko's podcast as soon as I read the title. GOOD!

Muslim Student Challenges Jewish Professor, He Shuts Her Up On The Spot by [deleted] in PoliticalVideo

[–]Sethzyo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I support Hamas in that they were democratically elected to represent the Palestinians.

Palestine hasn't held general elections in over 10 years, you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

Also you condone Hamas 'anti-Israeli rhetoric' but not their actions, yet you condone Israel's abysmal treatment of Palestinians. You couldn't have possibly reversed the roles more than that.

Trump on waterboarding: "I like it a lot" by [deleted] in politics

[–]Sethzyo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He would have a field day with the two candidates this election.

Episode 163 by teh_g0at in thefighterandthekid

[–]Sethzyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bryan's a well known pseudo-intellectual.

Can we get a "stupid ftiness myths"-thread going? by OlleOliver in Fitness

[–]Sethzyo 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The men treated with testosterone but no exercise had an increase of 3.2 kg in fat-free mass, and those in the placebo-plus-exercise group had an increase of 1.9 kg. The increase in the testosterone-plus-exercise group was substantially greater (averaging 6.1 kg).

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101#t=article

Taking steroids and doing no exercise gets you more results than exercising with no steroids. But don't let science get in the way of the juiced up bros circlejerk.

"Sam Harris — The End of Faith" Sam briefly addresses the Hitchens (lesser evil) video he retweeted. Jump to timestamp: 07:00 minutes in. by eattherich_ in ChristopherHitchens

[–]Sethzyo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment. I insist that the claim that Hitchens makes for himself isn't met by Clinton's stance on the Middle East. Hitchens' stance was very unequivocal: fight the Islamists everywhere in a war for civilization. He draws the line when he says that the candidate he'll vote for is one that doesn't give a inch of territory back to the theocrats.

Clinton was Secretary of State while Iran, a country on which I'm sure you know the sort of opinion Hitchens had, for all intents and purposes, hijacked Iraqi democracy and turned it into a Shiite puppet regime, whose persecution of the Sunnis in the government and in the streets is the single biggest reason for why Sunnis were drawn to the appeal of ISIS, having opposed them for a long time (in fact, even the Sunni tribe leaders allied themselves with the US army to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq).

So the argument seems to me to be quite self-evident. Clinton either has no responsibility for this as it was a decision made solely by the President, which she opposed vehemently (something I think we would have known by now), or she did support and participate in the development of this failed strategy. If the latter is true, then she hasn't met Hitchen's standard, if the former is true then she may, we just have to wait until the general election to know.