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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: The White Feather Campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec22.035650.1538@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:14:02 GMT
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- DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
-
- >Several 'womens groups' have been reported in the media as
- >expressing outrage at the media reports of systematized rape camps
- >in Bosnia, and are demanding military intervention in Bosnia to
- >bring and end to the practice.
-
- >It is likely, judging from the lack of confirming evidence and from
- >the opinions of aid workers in Bosnia that the reports are greatly
- >exaggerated, that the stories have been made up in order to stir up
- >sympathy for a Balkan war.
-
- Hmm. I don't know. They had a thing about this on NBC Nightly
- News last night. They had a soldier who described in detail how
- he raped ten women and killed six of them; how the Serbs run
- 'bordellos' filled with the female prisoners. Both the rapes and
- the murders, he claims, were committed 'under orders.' They also
- interviewed a young woman who was pregnant from being held captive
- in one of these 'bordellos'. Didn't strike me as particularly
- ficticious.
-
- >However, even if there were some truth to the allegations, what
- >seems to be happening is that the feminists are prepared to
- >sacrifice the lives of young American men in order to protect the
- >virtue of women. This seems to me to be a major step backward.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Exsqueeze me? Are you saying that rape somehow takes away the
- victim's virtue? I hardly think that that's what is making
- people upset. ("Gotta stop that raping! Their making a bunch of
- whores out there!")
-
- But anyway, what do you think *is* a valid reason for going to
- war? Saving some oil wells?
-
- rini
-