polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 8
th, 2016 at 2:40pm:
Oh, and, shame on you for comparing refugees with the klan
Lighten up, G -- I never compared refugees to the Klan. I compared one act of misplaced sympathy to another.
And the point is, when people in a particular group commit crimes, they're the ones who are chiefly responsible for creating bad P.R. for their group, not the purveyors of some nefarious anti-refugee political agenda.
polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 8
th, 2016 at 2:40pm:
If she was interested in exploiting this for her political agenda, she could have just stuck to her story of white rapists and continued scoffing at anyone who claimed refugees were rapists. Turning around and admitting that yeah in fact, refugees can and did rape, and not only that - admitting that she actually lied originally for ideological reasons - is about the worst thing you could do to further that particular political agenda.
But according to the Daily Mail, the only reason she came clean is at a friend's urging -- after somebody else had reportedly been raped.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3675154/Left-wing-German-politician-rape...So she stuck to her story of white rapists for 12 hours, and what's more, she continued to stridently espouse her cause on Facebook even after finally telling the police the truth. Listen to her gush:
"I am really sorry that your sexist and line-crossing treatment of me could help fuel aggressive racism ... I will not stand by and watch, and it can happen that racists and concerned citizens name you as the problem. You're not the problem. You're usually a wonderful human being who deserves as much as any other to be safe and free. 'I will not stand by and watch and let it happen that racists and concerned citizens name you as the problem.'"
So even if she did admit that she lied for ideological reasons, her ideology remained essentially unchanged. Apparently in her book, racists are worse than rapists.