I started to feed this troll comment with a list of U.S. citizens who've\r\ncommitted sexual assault, but that much is obvious.<\/p>\r\n
What is more interesting was a quick search of \"rape\" and \"sexual assault\" on LA Indymedia. Since the beginning of the 2006, there have been:<\/p>\r\n
Do you see that pattern I do? If one believed LA Indymedia, one would think that nearly all rapists are from other countries--chiefly\r\nMexico, that the only U.S. rapists were stationed far away at Abu Ghraib, and occasional forums on rape\r\nthwart all the U.S.'s sexual crimes.<\/p>\r\n
Without doing the count, the pattern seems to hold generally for at least the past two years of LA Indymedia. \r\nI don't think I need to explain what it means that LA Indymedia posters will post articles about citizens of other countries who\r\nrape and assiduously disregard U.S. citizens who rape. The racism\r\nand xenophobia is obvious.<\/p>\r\n
But more important is the effect: on LA Indymedia, U.S. rape and sexual assault survivors are so rare as to be invisible, and therefore survivors of rape and sexual assault by\r\nnon-U.S. citizens--all but one, foreign nationals themselves--become \"freaks,\" suspicious, and\r\noddities--anyone but, as many rape victims truly are, the women around us.<\/p>\r\n
So the next time you see an article on LA Indymedia about rape or assault by a non-citizen,\r\nremember the really story is that of the survivor, not the criminal. \r\nAnd then pause and think of the survivors around you who don't post their stories on\r\nIndymedia. They are the sisters and brothers of the foreign nationals\r\nwhose significance in Indymedia's world has been defined by the actions of their\r\nrapists. <\/p>\r\n\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"[This post was promoted from a comment to a lead post. The original post to which is was a comment was, basically, a troll post. The statement here, however, is relevant to the trolling that has been going on lately, where anti-Mexican agitators are posting stories about Mexico on this newswire, particularly stories about rape. What they're doing is a not-so-subtle campaign to bad-jacket people of Mexican descent. -eds]","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/takeback.jpg","filesize":"3.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2006\/02\/148501.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/takeback.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/takeback.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":148512,"heading":"Leslie","article":"We need to do a better job at hidding those posts. They sometimes stay a few hours on the site before being hidden.","author":"Marcus","parent_id":148501,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-28 09:31:20","modified":"2006-02-28 09:31:20","fileurl":""},{"id":148513,"heading":"reply","article":"Plenty of American would be sex offenders on http:\/\/www.perverted-justice.com\/\r\n\r\nYou may have heard of them on MSNBC and KFI.","author":"Jammer CC","parent_id":148501,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-28 09:43:02","modified":"2006-02-28 09:43:02","fileurl":""},{"id":148828,"heading":"SEE NO EVIL.....","article":"hear no evil \r\nor in this case, rape\r\nso typical for leslie","author":"me","parent_id":148501,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-03-03 16:11:49","modified":"2006-03-03 16:11:49","fileurl":""}]}