{"id":10109,"date":"2013-03-10T03:27:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:27:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:27:28","slug":"republican-replies-to-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/republican-replies-to-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Replies to Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The level of hatred that pervades the Republican right never ceases to amaze me.&#160; This hatred seems especially intense among the sheeple who regularly pollute their brains with <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, the Republican Ministry of Propaganda.&#160; In this example, the response of Fox brainwashed Republicans is enough to boggle the mind.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Zerlina Maxwell is a <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/members\/zerlina\/\">feminist writer<\/a> and frequent guest on Fox News. Last week, while a guest on Sean Hannity\u2019s show, Maxwell argued that arming women is not a way to solve the problem of rape. Among other things, she pointed out that \u201cif firearms were the answer, then the military would be the safest place for women, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/18\/new-statistics-on-military-rape-and-reporting\/\">and it\u2019s not<\/a>.\u201d You can watch her full segment below:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FTVjKohaFE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>In the wake of her appearance, Maxwell was bombarded with harassing messages calling for her to be raped or murdered, often in explicitly racist terms. She provided ThinkProgress with screenshots of three examples:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10Zerlina1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10Zerlina1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10Zerlina1.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10Zerlina2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10Zerlina2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10Zerlina2.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10Zerlina3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10Zerlina3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10Zerlina3.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These kinds of online threats are not simply cowardly and repulsive, they also may be criminal. In New York, where Maxwell resides, a person who \u201c[w]ith intent to harass, annoy or alarm a specific person, intentionally engages in a course of conduct directed at such person which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury or serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against, or the kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment or death of such person or a member of such person\u2019s immediate family\u201d is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/index\/get-help-8\/for-stalking-36\/new-york-state-stalking-laws-5.html\">guilty of stalking in the third degree<\/a>, and may be <a href=\"http:\/\/ypdcrime.com\/penal.law\/article70.htm#p70.15\">punished by up to one year in prison<\/a>. At least some of the attacks on Maxwell also <a href=\"http:\/\/ypdcrime.com\/penal.law\/article485.htm\">could qualify as hate crimes<\/a>, which would lead to a higher sentence\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/03\/09\/1695891\/fox-news-guest-receives-racist-rape-and-death-threats-after-arguing-guns-arent-the-solution-to-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For once, I did not find Hannity excessively offensive.&#160; I disagree with his opinion, but he fell well short of his normal level of disrespect.&#160; However, the problem is that the Republican Party not only celebrates such expression, but also, uses it to further their own political ends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I do hope that the Republican in the top tweet is located and prosecuted.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The level of hatred that pervades the Republican right never ceases to amaze me.&#160; This hatred seems especially intense among the sheeple who regularly pollute their brains with Faux Noise, the Republican Ministry of Propaganda.&#160; In this example, the response of Fox brainwashed Republicans is enough to boggle the mind. Zerlina Maxwell is a feminist <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/republican-replies-to-rape\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}