Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.
Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana.
"We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division,” the letter says.
The open letter, titled Women Against the Far Right, follows a surge in protests outside accommodation housing asylum seekers and far-right attempts to exploit a number of cases of alleged sexual crimes involving asylum seekers.
Does the UK not have the “no-single-men” policy Canada employed to avoid exactly this? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/canada-syrian-refugee-resettlement-plan-no-single-men
That’s still some xenophobic nonsense that potentially punishes men for losing their families, not to mention is some dystopian “guilty with no opportunity to be proven innocent” assholery.
You forgot sexist. It is blatantly sexist against men.
But it’s not phobic, because they have the statistics and data to back them up.
I know right? A culture that engaged in eugenics and genocide backed by statistics and data yesterday just happens to have statistics and data to back their regrettably cruel but totally pragmatic policy today.
Like damn I’m sure dictators have legitimate data that shows dissidents threaten their power. Good evidence is like a thought jammer.
Setting aside the fact that I have no idea what specifically “a culture” refers to… this “women are afraid of men because of statistics” thing isn’t limited to Canada.
Then again, 69% of statistics are made up on the spot or deliberately skewed and that goes double any time governments want to justify abusing foreigners.
Or justify abusing men, as in this case.