Exactly. At some point, if you are putting art out into the broader culture, you can’t complain when people of a different race that exist within that broader culture engage and interact with what they are hearing. This site has a tendency to label anything and everything as cultural appropriation. Now, apparently…

Couldn’t it be that the type of things SOME white rappers rap about are just more familiar to white audiences (who make up the majority of the population)? Say I was a white kid from the burbs, and I had more in common with Lil’ Dicky than Fetty Wap. Isn’t it possible that I may gravitate to Lil’ Dicky’s music due to…

So they should be aware of it, but just be sure not to address it in any way that may indirectly increase their fame and/or fortune? Riiiiiight...

No. It’s about race. Everything is about race. I’m a hammer so everything I see looks like a nail.

Fuck off then. Good bye.

Very good points that I’m sure counsel would bring up. All I’m saying is that even with those questions, there is still physical evidence of some sort. In many rape cases there is not. Perhaps the victim was traumatized and didn’t get a rape kit, and waited an extended period to report the assault (which isn’t all…

Calm down. We weren’t talking about this case itself. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, this guy is a fucking criminal and needs to do serious crime. We was caught at the scene of the crime. I’m not contesting that. He’s guilty as sin, and needs to be locked up. I was simply saying that in many rape cases…

Here’s a link to the FBI’s rape stats from 2014 (most recent year I could find) broken down by race; https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/….

In terms of rape charges in a legal context, you can’t really look at the broader states relating to false accusations. Say there were studies that said that false accusations were only 4% of rape claims (just making this percentage up for the sake of this argument). That really wouldn’t mean anything in the context…

Yeah, it looks like are talking about two separate, but related, issues. It seems like you’re focusing on the issue of eyewitness identification of perpetrators, and I’m focusing a bit more about testimony in terms proving that a crime even occurred.

“Often the only evidence of sexual assault is anecdotal.”

Not true. Victims can often be scared to resist their attackers (and justifiably so) or a defense attorney can easily argue that the victim liked “rough sex”, and that’s what caused any bruising. That’s one of the reasons why defense attorneys so often pry into a rape victims past sex life.

I have a JD, I’m familiar with how widespread and important testimony is in legal matters. The point being that almost all other serious crimes, will also have some sort of other evidence beyond the victims testimony. For example, in your thought exercise, there is a purse. Someone will be missing a purse, or someone…

“a place populated by mostly Black men who get sent their while White men who do the same things do not”

Not disagreeing with you, but I think the emphasis on false accusations in the context of rape is that, often times, there may not be any definitive evidence of rape other than the testimony of the victim. In a murder there’s usually a body. In a robbery, there is physical evidence (someone has property that they…

“Either you are a rapist or not. Alcohol doesn’t change that. This douche is a rapist.”

This kid is a fuck, but lets not act like “entitled white men” are the only types who commit rape.

“He’s an oblivious idiot on a bike.”

Things can be similar in kind, and still be different in degree. Just because there is sexism in the US (like everywhere else on Earth), that does not mean that the sexism in the US is equal to the elsewhere. Income inequality (as unfair and backward as it is) is not as bad as women being burned alive for marrying who…

“I hate that I’m sitting here waiting for anti-Muslim racists to start using this for fodder”