Yeah, but I would argue that ALL countries should be using some of their methods of measurement. I think number of physical assaults measured by number of violations rather than number of incidents is far more accurate and gives a better idea of perpetrators' behavior.

The link I provided explicitly states that and goes into fairly extensive detail.

In some ways, yes. When it comes to sexual assault and domestic violence, not even a little bit.

Oh, you're dumb because you're racist. Got it. Thanks for clearing that up, appreciate it. Dismissing you now!

Now you're just making up numbers and more than that, discounting significant pedagogy work that directly contradicts your personal opinions. After school sports programs, again when run well, benefit the students with experiences in leadership, strategy, and business. The swimming and diving program at my high…

But on the other hand school-sponsored sports are often the only kind that many children and their families can afford. There is significant research to indicate that well run sports programs benefit students and the community at large. And if we shut down the football program, what's to keep people from shutting…

It's ok. I know you're cool people, and I didn't think you were angry at me, just wanted to make sure you understood my sort of vague point.

I agree that she needs to be protected. If you look at my exchange with MidwestMs, I think you'll see my objection was to the perceived silencing language, not to the idea of her getting safe.

I really hope so, as well. And I hope, like you said, she and her family (and the other survivor) know there's hundreds of thousands (if not more) people standing in their corner with them.

I don't expect her to fight the fight now. But when I was assaulted (every time I was assaulted), by the time I finally had processed it effectively and managed to start communicating about it, I was never encouraged to share my story. I wasn't told what resources I had available to me, or how to find other…

Moving would look like running away, even if it isn't hiding. I agree that the family should do whatever is required for the mental health of the child, but I hope that it doesn't come at the expense silencing a survivor and her family. Your list only included elements of silencing and removal, nothing to encourage…

But by hiding, "they" win too. I get your point, and I think there is something to be said for closing all social media accounts, but at the end of the day this family is getting attacked because their daughter survived a rape and DARED to talk about it publicly. Things are never going to change if we treat that as…

Exactly! The way to nomalize coming out and making life easier for LGBTQ (etcetc) folks is NOT to forcibly out them and then gossip about them further.

I didn't gloss over anything. I spoke to it directly by saying that yes, genocide is an international issue, but in the US, we have done a shitty job of confronting the genocide perpetrated within our own borders and part of the problem is racism against Native Americans. This isn't the Oppression Olympics it's…

I did say that in a few posts that are hidden I think because I kept dismissing the racism.

This is just me, but I refuse to accept that we can't "undo" soft racism. I think that by educating people and insisting that they treat marginalized people with respect and not bow to social pressures when it comes to cultural appropriation we can change things. There's a difference between cultural borrowing (like…

Native Rights speakers have flatly requested that things like "spirit animal" and dream catchers and head dresses and ceremonial masks not be used by non-Native people. There was a huge news story a few weeks back that an auction house in France was selling off a collection of figures sacred to a tribe from the…

But your insistence that you don't see it as offensive is the issue. It doesn't matter that you don't see it as offensive. What matters is that there are living, breathing human beings who are suffering every day at the hand of systematic and individual oppression and racism who have said it is offensive, so out of…

I am NOT Native so I sometimes feel awkward having these conversations. But I did work hard in the Native American Studies offerings when I was in school, contributing to efforts to transcribe treaties and build an interactive dictionary software so the Miami tribe could teach more members their language. This is…