Rape Kit Costs and the GOP Ticket.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2008-09-13 02:11pm

Boyish-Tigerlilly wrote:Assuming she's a taxpayer herself, wouldn't she already be contributing to the process? This seems like charging her extra, even though she undoubtedly already contributes to police funding, justified on the grounds that they don't want the taxpayers to be burdened... ...

Making such an assumption requires the tiniest amount of critical thinking, which most conservotards lack.

CaptainZoidberg · Post by **CaptainZoidberg** » 2008-09-13 05:17pm

The objectivist philosophy that is quite popular among social conservatives (Ron Paul, Greenspan, to name a few), directly advocates "blame the victim".

I quote Ayn Rand:

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2008-09-13 07:08pm

Plekhanov wrote:I'm trying to understand what the origin and justification of this incomprehensible policy is. Do the victims of other types of crime have to pay for basic police work to be done in their cases in the US, for example burglary victims have to pay finger prints to be taken, drive by victims ballistics reports and so forth? Or are rape victims alone in this?

I think I just found out. Here's a Link to the crazy, but I offer the shorter version. This isn't a real news site, it's a Right Wing They're Making A Holocaust With Abortion looney bin. It goes like this..

Hospitals confirm they use Plan B and similar oral contraceptives to prevent implantation when treating rape victims.

Anti-Choice Loonies already have decreed Plan B and oral contraceptives are 'Abortifacient Drugs', a type of abortion.

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ANYONE PAY FOR THOSE WHORES TO GET ABORTIONS?!?!

We've covered the 'THE PILL IS ABORTION' lunacy here on this site before: Link

I'd imagine that is the core of alot of it.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2008-09-13 07:44pm

Plekhanov wrote:I'm trying to understand what the origin and justification of this incomprehensible policy is.

Institutionalized misogynist cruelty. I'm usually all for digging the more complicated answer out from under the emotionally satisfying one-liner, but in this case, there really isn't a more complicated answer. It amounts to punishing rape victims for being raped, the same way fuckhole sandbox countries like Saudi Arabia stone them to death, and is motivated by the same impulses. I guess if you wanted a deeper underlying cause, you could say that quite a lot of this country sucks, and so do the voters in it.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-09-13 08:02pm

I don't know why anyone even needs to ask the question. Just get into a debate with any self-styled "pro-lifer". They always trot out the stereotype of the promiscuous whore, as if that should have anything to do with the morality of the action itself. They always get upset if you insist on replacing the promiscuous whore with a rape victim, because they know it weakens their argument. And how better to deal with that weakness in their worldview than to blame the victim for rape, thus eliminating the problem of rape victims existing at all? It's what they do in Saudi Arabia after all. They also did it for centuries with Bath-Sheba; there is a long theological tradition in Judeo-Christianity of blaming her for being raped, because David saw her bathing in the nude and couldn't control himself.