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Cologne Continues

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German police are investigating 26 reports of sexual assault that occurred at the Schlossgrabenfest music festival over the weekend in Darmstadt, Germany (near Frankfurt).

The incident is being described as a smaller scale repeat of the Cologne attacks on New Year’s Eve, wherein groups of men surrounded women in a coordinated way, ensuring women could not escape.Police say they have arrested three Pakistani men so far, two of which are asylum-seekers. The Cologne attacks, which produced over 1,000 reports of sexual assault, have not resulted in any sexual assault convictions. There have been, however, nine convictions for theft.

It’s one of those times when I don’t have much to add to the original piece. Everything has been said before without producing any impact.

20 responses to “Cologne Continues”

  1. Omega Man Avatar
    Omega Man

    You might want to add that it is now a thought crime to say anyth Ing negative about the migrants and the acceptance of ‘taharrush’ as a new tradition into German society.

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  2. Barbara Avatar
    Barbara

    I am running out of the house this morning and so did not have time to do anything but skim the headlines. I see there is an op-ed in the NYT on Illinois colleges. Perhaps your plight is finally getting at least some of the attention it deserves? (Or maybe not, as I said, haven’t read it yetc and won’t until this evening).

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  3. el Avatar
    el

    I saw it on Hebrew news website yesterday, but thought 26 was too small a number to be worth mentioning here. I do not believe such attacks happen only at big events like Cologne or this festival. Surely, cumulative number of women attacked “just” on the streets since Cologne events, while they were going to the market or waiting at a bus stop, is much greater than 26. 26 is a drop in the sea, mentioned because of this festival. What about being afraid to take one’s child to kindergarten or to take public transportation? Everybody does the latter things, unlike going to concerts and public selebrations.

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    1. el Avatar
      el

      Celebrations, sorry.

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Yes. Most of the things that make women’s lives hell in 3rd world countries are not easily reportable to police. The constant stream of street harassment leaves no bruises or marks. But it wears one down, it bruises the soul, so to speak. The problem is that this is impossible to explain to men. Even the best, most feminist-oriented men don’t get it. Which is why they will forever keep allaying male suffering at the expense of women’s right to walk down the street unmolested.

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      1. Shakti Avatar
        Shakti

        I agree. It’s this lack of understanding which makes songs likethis Heavens to Betsy song incomprehensible to men.
        Or they understand all too well the benefits of constant harassment.

        I once saw a film song where the hero gets his buddies to rock a car the heroine is in. The song was a standard romantic number. WTF.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “Yes. Most of the things that make women’s lives hell in 3rd world ”

        In this case they were brought to Germany by a woman. Irony quadrillioned.

        But Merkel, like all elites, lives in a protected bubble and since it’s not bother her she can’t imagine that it’s bothering anyone else.

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      3. Hattie Avatar
        Hattie

        Older women like me are not aware of this harassment either, but my daughter had to attach herself to a group of German tourists in order to avoid unpleasant encounters in Costa Rica.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          We constantly have these problems when we send female students on Study Abroad in Latin America. I started advising them against going altogether because I feel bad for what they go through during these trips and don’t know how to help them. I try to warn them in advance but it’s hard to explain to those who’ve never experienced it. :-(((((

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      4. el Avatar
        el

        \ Yes. Most of the things that make women’s lives hell in 3rd world countries are not easily reportable to police.

        Here, it seems to me, we are talking even about things which are very easily reportable, with German police being encouraged not to “raise waves” by … arresting the criminals.

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  4. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    Unrelatedly:
    How Indian soap operas are made palatable for an Afghan audience
    The video editors work over time to blur out midriffs and Hindu gods and insert Islamically correct dialogue. But production company employees still get blown up. It’s striking to me how people are encouraged to act as if the mere existence of body parts past puberty.

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  5. el Avatar
    el

    \ 26 was too small a number to be worth mentioning here

    Found this danmiller’s post with quotes from the article by The Gatestone Institute proving my point:

    Islam is Winning and Western Civilization is losing — Part III, Europe and Britain

    I especially “liked” this:

    \ 90% of the sex crimes committed in Germany in 2014 do not appear in the official statistics, according to André Schulz, the head of the Association of Criminal Police

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  6. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    Another irony is that mainstream feminism, as currently constructed, is completely useless for dealing with the situation in Germany, Sweden et al…

    Feminism, as currently constructed, can only dialogue with men who already accept the basic tenants – it quickly turns into empty nothingness when challenged, especially by someone else with a social claim to victimhood (thank you, intersectionality!).

    Feminists dropped the ball in the early 1990s (or a little before) when after achieving the basic aims of feminism in the west they decided to not confront non-western and/or non-white cultural misogyny.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      This is a very good insight. You can only bring the discussion of affirmative consent to somebody who has already accepted that a woman is a valid human being. And that’s not the majority of people on this planet.

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      1. Stringer Bell Avatar
        Stringer Bell

        “..they decided to not confront non-western and/or non-white cultural misogyny.”

        Umm, I don’t know about that. I am cursed with a long enough memory to remember that mainstream US feminists supported the Iraqi invasion under the pretense of women’s rights.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          Lets say they decided to confront it in ridiculous, useless, counterproductive ways.

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  7. Hattie Avatar
    Hattie

    I have a novel idea. Let’s blame men for the bad things they do instead of feminists.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Oh, I agree. Those criminals are absolutely to blame 100%.

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  8. el Avatar
    el

    A good article about Sweden (via Technology As Nature):

    What Happens When Most of a Country’s Immigrants Are Men?
    http://www.vice.com/read/what-happens-when-most-of-a-countrys-immigrants-are-men

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      What an intelligent, reasonable person.

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