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Originally Posted by Dr. Meh
Raising awareness by having a potential victim a wide swath of society can relate to makes the feeling of the danger and suffering involved with sex trafficking real and palpable. In turn, that can potentially spur people into volunteering and donating to organizations to help stop sex trafficking. How is ignorance better?
And I think you're putting too much on the Mexicans in vans idea and the assumption that women are too stupid to apply their safety precautions across the board to all races and vehicle types.
Ignorance is better because if people are protecting themselves from a non-threat then they feel safe when they are not any safer. It's like light cigarettes vs regular.
I am making the repeated point about race because that is no small ingredient in the invented boogieman. There are real boogie men. Telling people to be aware of cross border rings is ****ing stupid, and to your point while women should be aware of their surroundings when in public, they are still far more likely to be killed by their own husband than a stranger of any race for any reason.
I don't know how else I can explain my point to you. White women do not get snatched to be sold into sex rings by organized crime. It is not the way those activities are perpetrated. It is not logical that it would be. There is no benefit to inventing or even inflating that threat and adding racial elements to it to anyone, and there is no excuse for people who do so except they are simple minded, scared or misinformed in some combination.
Women may be abducted and raped/killed on a jog. Just say that. Women may be lured into sex work online. Raise awareness. Women are being held captive as sex slaves in massage parlors within miles of each of us. Let's do something about it. But stopping the flow of supermoms across the Mexican border by cartels? Gfys.