• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      According to the statistics I could find, there’s somewhere between 1.2 and 1.7 million SA incidents per year in the UK, with most not being reported and convictions in a small percentage of the cases that are reported.

      So technically, if given a large enough timeframe (note they didn’t state over how many years), you could make the statistic true. It would be horrendously misleading, of course, as it isn’t giving any baselines or percentages, and it’s misrepresenting the lack of prosecutions as stemming from political correctness when it actually comes from the way society normalizes violence against women.

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        somewhere between 1.2 and 1.7 million SA incidents per year in the UK

        I don’t know what to type to express the feelings this give me. They aren’t pleasant.