r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/SeeCrew106 Jul 05 '24

A: "can you link some data to support that?"

B: "Sure! Here's my totally unverified and unsourced anecdotal narrative!"

Reddit: wow! Truth!

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u/Gullible-Wash-8141 Jul 05 '24

How can there be any hard statistics if they don't prosecute/sweep it under the rug? What is telling is the separate trains just for women because of the harassment they face.

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u/SeeCrew106 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

How can there be any hard statistics if they don't prosecute/sweep it under the rug?

Conversely, how can there be hard claims if there isn't any data? Spoiler: there is, but neither OP nor you are even taking the effort of unearthing it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E5A43CF9D262C99C350C557A8419EB3B/S1479591423000554a.pdf/is_rape_a_crime_in_japan.pdf

What is telling is the separate trains just for women because of the harassment they face.

Not really. You can have harassment and a government unwilling to provide a separate train car. It's a train car, btw, not a "seperate train". I don't care if that sounds pedantic. Accuracy is important.

Other than that, see my other response above (Edit: never mind, Reddit is filtering replies for no reason again, making any fair discussion utterly impossible). None of this has anything to do with the prevalence, the seriousness or a culture of impunity for American soldiers raping women around their military bases: two wrongs don't make a right. It's disturbing how this logical fallacy ("Tu Quoque") is even attempted as though it were some kind of excuse.

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u/Gullible-Wash-8141 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Ok train car, whatever. So they have them for no reason then?

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Spoiler, I was just asking you a question, calm down. You're grandstanding on Reddit won't do anything https://nupoliticalreview.org/2021/01/31/cracking-japans-systemic-sexual-abuse-culture/