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The real lens through which this kind of crime must be viewed is not being spoken of in the media. It is hatred of women, not racism, as real as racism is.
They are alarmingly common, now, the stories of a vulnerable woman ambushed by a gang of guys, who are already in a gang of sorts -- athletic team, the Air Force Academy, the police force.
The response is always the same -- outrage by part of the community, while the rest rallies 'round the accused, insisting they are good guys and proceed to villify the victim and tear her to pieces, with the lead chorus of, "women lie about rape!" followed by, "she asked for it." The number of reasons given for asking for it, tend to boil down to, "she exists."
Disintegration of culture? The unraveling of a nation into us and them?
Fox.
