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Patrick Henry College Speaker Excuses Rape, Blames Mass Incarceration on Feminists
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 9/16/2013 4:32 pm
A mandatory lecture given to the students of the Christian conservative Patrick Henry College on Friday offered apologies for rape, domestic violence and child abuse, and blamed American mass incarceration on feminists insistance on prosecuting sexual violence.
Patrick Henry professor Stephen Baskerville, a so-called mens rights advocate, delivered the colleges annual Faith and Reason lecture, Libby Anne reported at Patheos. Baskerville started off with his thesis that feminists and Islamists are working together to push Christians out of public life, sort of like the alliance between Hitler and Stalin:
"Though they claim to advance rights, or equality, or justice values that in their place may be seductively legitimate the real aim is power or as currently phrased, empowerment. In comparison with this shared common goal, differences in contentare secondary. This is why alliances are readily formed between seemingly incompatible agendas: Hitler and Stalin, or Islamists and feminists. Power is the alpha and the omega of contemporary Communism, wrote Milovan Djilas during the repression of the 1950s.Ideas, philosophical principles, and moral considerations
all can be changed and sacrificed. But not power."
Feminists, he argues, have used the sexual revolution to impose state repression and transformed our government into a matriarchal leviathan by criminalizing rape, domestic violence and child abuse. Baskerville cites the work of University of Pennsylvania professor Marie Gottschalk to claim that the criminalization of sexual violence has led to the United States historic levels of mass incarceration. Gottschalk argued that womens groups working with law and order groups in the 1960s and 70s contributed to a more punitive climate, not that the criminalization of sexual violence led to mass incarceration. But no matter in the prosecution of rape and domestic violence, Baskerville sees our own homegrown version of Stalinism:
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MineralMan
(146,351 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Instead of all those paragraphs of total garbage, he could have saved everyone some time by saying he is afraid of women!
Typical MRA asshole imo.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Dpm12
(512 posts)that otherwise smart people believe in the fantasy that is the Bible.
LostOne4Ever
(9,302 posts)That the right is full of nothing but nuts.
derby378
(30,252 posts)When his wife Sarah went mad, he treated her with as much care and dignity as he could provide until her death, refusing to commit her to a crude psychiatric facility where she would have been chained to the wall in filthy conditions.
Baskerville isn't even worthy to kiss the butt of Henry's horse.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Besides, he might enjoy that too much.
enough
(13,270 posts)on rape and domestic violence.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,027 posts)Almost Fred Phelps category.
Solly Mack
(90,802 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and child abuse? Oh, those shameless hussies. I hope this guy gets asshole cancer.
alp227
(32,078 posts)Or about those "Men's Rights" and "Father's Rights" activist groups...they're just fronts for the misogynistic rape apologist thugs of the USA.