Fighting Exploitation: IDIOT STYLE

Having been lured by the promise of a new study illuminating the motivations behind procurement of prostitutes (I know, I should have realized there was something suspicious about the implicit suggestion that the motivations are anything other than the obvious), I soon realized I had been duped into reading the not so cleverly disguised tendentious tripe of the left's equivalent to Fox News: The Guardian.

For future reference, I'll note the solicitation for comments at the end of an article is sometimes more revealing than the title.
 

"Why do you think men pay for sex? Do you think more should be done to stop them?"

The author of the article carried out a study based on interviews with Johns, which after reading some of the responses she chose to highlight, leaves one wondering whether a discussion about observer effect would be totally lost on her. But it's not the methods that do my nut in so much as what these people are trying to accomplish. The author and implicated legislators, to me, appear to be MORONS.

They want to fight exploitation and trafficking so they've decided to craft and support a new law to punish men who purchase sex from exploited women, regardless of the John's awareness of the woman's situation. (My cursory supposition is that this 'study' was concocted to refute challenges to the legality of the new law.)

At risk of banality, I'd like to point out that presumably this law will dissuade no-one.

Meanwhile, IT'S THE JOHNS THEMSELVES who are in the best position to be able to gather and relay relevant information to investigators about exploitation and trafficking. The most effective thing they could do is create a morally approved line of communication with legal amnesty. Many of the Johns interviewed in the article seemed to suffer from guilt complexes and would probably be more than grateful for some positive angle in which to frame their activities.

One quote from the article exemplifies the situation:

'One man suspected that an African woman he had met was ­trafficked ­because "she was frightened and ­nervous. She told me she had been tricked. I had sex with her and she seemed fine with the sex. She asked me to help her, but I said there was little I could do. She might have been lying to me."'

Rather than providing an avenue for a guy like this to come forward with helpful information, their new law is going to increase his certitude that it would be an act of self-sacrifice.

It honestly makes me wonder whether the morons apparent, really care about exploitative practises at all, or whether it's all just humbug allowing them to carry out a less popular crusade against prostitution in general.

What’s All the Hoopla in Quebec About?

The main thing that separates animals from people, is not their ability to react impulsively and emotionally, it’s their inability to think.

Are Canadians animals?

A reasonably intelligent person hears about all the commotion in Quebec over increasing tuition fees and decides to read a few news articles about the situation so they can decide who the more reasonable party is: the government or the students?

So, obviously, the first thing they want to know is: How much does it cost to put someone through university? Not the amount they charge the students of course, but the real cost of a degree before government subsidies. This is the most basic piece of information one would need to have to be able to decide what they thought about the government footing the bill for university. Of course it would also be nice to have some information on the cost of student living during this period and about how the increases in tuition rates have matched inflation.

So, is the reason no one is talking about this because … ?

A) Canadians are animals. They are comfortable having opinions which are emotional reactions based on loosely understood ideology without making any attempt to really understand any of the details of the issues they are PASSIONATE about.

B) Canadians are BELIEVED to be animals by the journalists. The journalists believe even rudimentary intellectualism is beyond Canadians. They assume facts would generate a sense of consternation in readers who are used to being led by their emotions and won’t know how to ‘process’ the ‘information’.

C) The journalists themselves are animals and are just communicating their extremely limited understanding of the world around them. In spite of presumably elite competition within journalism, America and its premier publications perpetually drain our brightest talent and what’s left over are uninspired C-list hacks. They have no intellectual curiosity about the stories they write and no motivation to pursue any extra, hard details beyond the most superficial coverage of a story.

I don’t think people are inherently as dumb as they end up being because of the way they’re treated. Not everyone is brilliant but they’re certainly capable of having opinions based on facts. I’m not sure if anyone is at ‘fault’ for the current situation or whether intellectual participation in society is just a flower that hasn’t bloomed yet. A child rather than an animal.

The polarized idiocy in America makes me want to vomit.

I've been following this American Trayvon Martin tragedy a bit, and most of it, to me, just primarily reaffirms why you do not arm the general population. The fact that there was even a question of having an investigation initially, does SCREAM race inequality in a way that only America can, but for me it all boils down to--no guns, no dead innocent kid.
 

Here's something I thought was worth writing about though. I read a bit of an article in the Globe and Mail this morning about the 'hoodie', which disdainful mentioned that Geraldo Rivera had blamed Trayvon Martin's death on wearing one. It sounded so awful and repugnant an attitude I just had to see it for myself. Scouring through 'news' articles from America's liberal media I found many scornful references to it and finally a clip on MSNBC.
 

ARE MOST AMERICANS EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGED?
 

Having made many Canadian liberal friends, I have certainly indulged in observing the outlandish irrationality of conservative Americans whose brains seem more fired up on beer and sausages than actual brain cells. However, I've come to see that the liberals are just the same.
 

Take this clip of Geraldo that the liberal media has taken such an issue with. He makes perfectly rational statements--surprisingly rational statements! It actually makes me wonder how many other perfectly rational statements I might have summarily written off in my youth because of a perverted bias against conservatives.
 

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/23/10830530-geraldo-rivera-blames-hoodie-for-trayvons-death-critics-tell-him-to-zip-it-up