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Originally Posted by Hentai
So I ask, have I missed something or is this a fake fearmongering tactic that we won't speak up against because we're afraid to show our support for the SW community openly?
Something has to give, we're the only people who don't defend what we believe in or at least believe people should have the freedom to do, which is work as a sex worker or be a client.
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it is too complex an issue, to give a satisfactory response. let's start with the idea that Newspapers and other news dispensers, are in the business of making money, NOT promoting truth. they will "game" a weather forecast to "sell" fear.. 5 days in advance of a coming storm, they warn viewers to put up plywood, stock up on bottled water.. this gives the News outlet 5 days of heavy viewership, and when the "storm" turns into a sprinkle? oh well. it's easy to sell the idea that girls are trafficked far beyond what credulity would dictate.. tap into FEAR. there's an Insurance Commercial running now, where a cute 18 year old white girl is said to have had an accident, and the Insurance Company "handled everything", making her parents so relieved. cute 18 year old white girls, and their safety, is a hot button, easily fear-mongered item to promote.
then there's the flipside that fuels my cynicism. the Nigerian kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls, by the Boko Haram 5 years ago. Michelle Obama wore a t-shirt saying "free our girls", for a couple of months, and that was it.. most of the girls are still captives today. if you care about trafficking, why not start with caring about the freedom of these Nigerian girls?
don't tell me it's apples and oranges. that's just more excuses to do nothing. if the Nigerian girls had been white, and kidnapped in Ohio, they would have been freed in 48 hours.