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  • There was a very high profile criminal rape trial in Australia this year which was abandoned permanently after one of the jurors was found to have snuck a magazine article into court. See Lerhmann vs Higgins.

    That could have been a strategy arranged by the defence. But if you think the judiciary itself corruptly arranged it then think again…

    There was a civil defamation trial later where it was found the accused did indeed commit rape “on the balance of probability” (vs the more strict criminal criterion of “beyond reasonable doubt”).

    So in this Israeli case the worry is now that the leak has damaged the likelihood of punishment for the perpetrators.








  • less than 1 percent of shootings where four or more people were wounded in public were by trans people, and that over 97 percent of the mass killings were committed by cisgender men

    That’s a useless statistic on its own.

    Roughly 1% of the population is trans so they are neither more likely nor less likely. Just like ordinary people (despite being vilified). In fact, if you leave geriatrics out of the calculation, trans folk are less likely to commit these killings.

    [EDIT: And if the comparison is trans folk with cisgender men then the later are about twice as likely to commit these killings]

    So the author’s insinuation is correct despite their logic being wrong, however they are not going to convince pearl-clutching conservatives with that article as it stands.