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British Rape Crisis Organisation Offers Service to British Women

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I just downloaded a rape PDF to my phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Where does it say that they exclude white women? This is a leaflet targeted towards a certain segment, but it doesn’t mean that this is what they do exclusively.

    Their website says
    a specialist support organisatio offerring free and confidential support services to all women survivors of sexual violence and abuse in all its forms

    And
    As part of its commitment to accessibility and inclusion, it therefore offers a specialist service for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women aimed at overcoming some of these barriers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It says all women or am I reading it wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,508 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I’m outraged at what the people of Wycombe in the UK are at!


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    splashuum wrote: »
    Rape crisis center advertise's their services solely to "Black, Asian and
    Minority Ethnic Women"

    Given the seriousness of rape as a crime, surely they should not be allowed exclude their service to victimized women based on their race?

    http://www.wycomberapecrisis.org.uk/Media/Default/Publications/BAME%20Leaflet.pdf

    I'm sure this UK based rape crisis centre that is nothing to do with Ireland help with all kind of women and not just the ethnic minorities, what am I supposed to be outraged about here?

    I'm honestly sick of these race/gender/sexuality baiting threads...

    Who honestly gives a shíte?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,508 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    It says all women or am I reading it wrong

    It’s not like someone who screams racism against white people to get it wrong.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is this another misinterpreted and misleading outrage teaser?

    Making sure one demographic is aware of a service is not the same as providing a service for that demographic only.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Perifect


    :D Fail!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭amcalester


    I’ll take false outrage for 100 please Bob.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    This is f*cking bullsh*t. It’s a leaflet put out by the Rape Crisis Centre to ethnic minority women saying that they too can access the service and that they have translators available if needed. The RCC looks after all women and doesn’t exclude anyone.

    That idiot Tommy Robinson tweeted this earlier with the same stupid claim you’re making and as such the Rape Crisis Centre has been bombarded with a load of abuse. Which is of course what you want to be dealing with at work, reading a load of angry and threatening abuse when you’re busy trying to help women who have been raped.

    Why are people so thick?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,120 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    They don't just offer services to specific ethnic groups. The leaflet you posted was aimed at women who might have felt that the existing services were not for them whether because they had language issues or may have encountered racism in the past.

    A cousin of my sister in law is a volunteer with this group and she says the level of abuse they've received since the unlovely Tommy Robinson decided to post a scan of it with the caption "I guess it's all right to rape white women then" is mind boggling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    This sort of thing is the very definition of fake news like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,749 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    splashuum wrote: »
    Rape crisis center advertise's their services solely to "Black, Asian and
    Minority Ethnic Women"

    Given the seriousness of rape as a crime, surely they should not be allowed exclude their service to victimized women based on their race?

    http://www.wycomberapecrisis.org.uk/Media/Default/Publications/BAME%20Leaflet.pdf




    From the leaflet
    We aim to provide an equal opportunities service to all women, regardless of their race, cultural background, sexual orientation, and any disability. We want women from all walks of life to be supported by us and experience a safe and appropriate environment in which to heal.

    You might read a bit more and thoroughly the next time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Lost implants


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    Yaxley-Lennon supporters showing their true colours


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Some lad I know who is a Tommy Robinson supporter tried to deny the Holocaust to me, do they all believe that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,281 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    splashuum wrote: »
    Rape crisis center advertise's their services solely to "Black, Asian and
    Minority Ethnic Women"

    Given the seriousness of rape as a crime, surely they should not be allowed exclude their service to victimized women based on their race?

    http://www.wycomberapecrisis.org.uk/Media/Default/Publications/BAME%20Leaflet.pdf
    Given the title of the thread and the link which you didn’t read, who told you the rape centre is ‘refusing’ to of service to white women?

    Genuinely, where did you get that information?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,163 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    FTA69 wrote: »
    This is f*cking bullsh*t. It’s a leaflet put out by the Rape Crisis Centre to ethnic minority women saying that they too can access the service and that they have translators available if needed. The RCC looks after all women and doesn’t exclude anyone.

    That idiot Tommy Robinson tweeted this earlier with the same stupid claim you’re making and as such the Rape Crisis Centre has been bombarded with a load of abuse. Which is of course what you want to be dealing with at work, reading a load of angry and threatening abuse when you’re busy trying to help women who have been raped.

    Why are people so thick?

    The other important question is why some people are so determined to import right wing controversies from the UK and elsewhere to Ireland.


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭sk8erboii


    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    Can the mods just permaban op and get it over with?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Perifect


    This right wing, male power movement is quite frightening.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Why are people so thick?

    It might be worth addressing that question to those on here who think Tommeh is some kind of messiah.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    It says all women or am I reading it wrong

    It doesn’t matter what the article says, the most important thing is this headline is out there and people won’t read the article and pass it on (god knows what the claim will be after a few iterations).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Given the title of the thread and the link which you didn’t read, who told you the rape centre is ‘refusing’ to of service to white women?

    Genuinely, where did you get that information?

    Had a quick look at the OPs posting history.
    The OP knows quite well that this Rape Crisis organisation don't refuse white women. The OP is pushing an agenda where the truth isn't important.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,281 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Had a quick look at the OPs posting history.
    The OP knows quite well that this Rape Crisis organisation don't refuse white women. The OP is pushing an agenda where the truth isn't important.
    That’s probably why they haven’t been back to discuss their claim.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod- Click baity sh!t title changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    So embarrassed for you OP.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,319 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Jaysus. When I find myself in full agreement with folks like El Duderino, BBFAN and Odhinn on a subject that kinda tells me something is ballsology personified. How the hell could anyone believe a rumour like that? When the actual organisation's code of practice is but a click away? Jaysus Part Deux.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭alan1963


    I think the OP has a point
    If you look at the leaflet from the rape crisis centre it has on the front in big red type, "black, asian and ethnic minority women" and only on the back in much smaller type does it say " we help all women regardless of their ethnicity or cultural background"
    now that's fine, but supposing if it said on the front,in big red type "white English indigenous women"and then said on the back in much smaller type" we help all women regardless of their ethnicity or cultural background"
    Would that still be fine or would people say that was racist?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,319 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    alan1963 wrote: »
    I think the OP has a point
    If you look at the leaflet from the rape crisis centre it has on the front in big red type, "black, asian and ethnic minority women" and only on the back in much smaller type does it say " we help all women regardless of their ethnicity or cultural background"
    now that's fine, but supposing if it said on the front,in big red type "white English indigenous women"and then said on the back in much smaller type" we help all women regardless of their ethnicity or cultural background"
    Would that still be fine or would people say that was racist?
    Ah c'mon Al, FFS like. I'm a fan of stretching credulity at the best of times, but you'd want to be really stretching to the point of failure to take that away from the leaflet.

    From what I understand of the situation over there, there are women from some communities who don't come forward, or rarely. Either because the community culture wants to keep it in house, or in some cases because the culture will as likely blame the woman for the crime, so the RCC folks are reaching out to those women as a vulnerable group. A few years back I recall them doing similar campaign to target prostitutes and other sex workers for similar reasons, they were less likely to come forward. They even had a campaign aimed at male victims of sexual assault and rape. IIRC the most likely to come forward and pursue a criminal case were White middle class women. They feel more likely to get support and generally have more familial and community supports.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I hope my car passes the NCT.


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  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your Face wrote: »
    I hope my car passes the NCT.

    So do I.

    Wait actually, what colour is it?


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