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If you had to think about every political issue involving your home country or the world, what is your top issue? Would it be about the environment, the economy, war & terrorism, hyper-partisanship, or something else? It can be a world issue or your home country. It could also be about your home state or province rather than the larger scale stuff.

You may share your opinions, but please be respectful.

My top issue - is a toss-up between healthcare and political correctness. Originally, I wanted to repeal all of the ACA, but I'm more interested into wiping out the individual mandate and employer insurance mandate, as well as the contraceptive mandate Hobby Lobby fought against. But while I find the ACA as a problem, I'm also concerned about the increase of political correctness in sites and college campuses (which include double standards, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and the whole "privilege" thing). Although there are many others, this is what matters more to me.
 
Oh, definitely the environment. Men in suits come and go. The world will get better as the years go by (though unlikely to be when I'm still on it), but I get the impression that we are pushing nature further and further away from us and completely abandoning any aspect of it which can't benefit us, and that is what will keep humanity from going any further. For me, that's the biggest problem. That's what hits home the most.
 
the only thing i care about is sexual abuse and like to dedicate my free time in helping csa victims and orgs. i like to focus more on child victims but i do care about women of age who were enslaved.

its very sad once you realize these women were born into this life of sexual slavery from day 1, and think all of this is normal and fun to them. they come out very broken and traumatized and i believe although society condemns it, we all know it happens behind the scenes.

which is why i like to help people in cyber crime take them down.

and fighting porn i guess because i believe the industry is corrupt. not going into my reasoning on a kids forum but basically im against all of it and no, its not bc im religious.

i honestly dont care about neo nazis and antifa fighting at berkley and how Triggered people are. my biggest priority will always be women suffering from the sex trade. (men do get enslaved too, but lets be real, 95% of the victims are probably women)
 
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and fighting porn i guess because i believe the industry is corrupt. not going into my reasoning on a kids forum but basically im against all of it and no, its not bc im religious.

Why anyone would be against pornography being allowed legally (which is presumably what you're saying here) is always baffling to me, particularly someone who obviously cares deeply about issues related to sexual assault. Greater access to pornography has been repeatedly proven to reduce rates of sexual assault, as countries where there are strict laws against it have much higher rates of sexual assault even when accounting statistically for other factors.

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I'm also concerned about the increase of political correctness in sites and college campuses (which include double standards, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and the whole "privilege" thing). Although there are many others, this is what matters more to me.

This is definitely one of my top issues, too, and has been for a long while.

However, my biggest concern right now is that we have a man as our president who I believe is very likely a traitor to this country and who I believe colluded with Russia to help himself in the election and hurt Hillary Clinton. I'm also concerned about his tax returns, his foreign business connections, his serial lying, the fact that he almost certainly has committed sexual assault, etc.
 
Why anyone would be against pornography being allowed legally (which is presumably what you're saying here) is always baffling to me, particularly someone who obviously cares deeply about issues related to sexual assault. Greater access to pornography has been repeatedly proven to reduce rates of sexual assault, as countries where there are strict laws against it have much higher rates of sexual assault even when accounting statistically for other factors.

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This is definitely one of my top issues, too, and has been for a long while.

However, my biggest concern right now is that we have a man as our president who I believe is very likely a traitor to this country and who I believe colluded with Russia to help himself in the election and hurt Hillary Clinton. I'm also concerned about his tax returns, his foreign business connections, his serial lying, the fact that he almost certainly has committed sexual assault, etc.

you're free to PM me, but im not discussing this on a kids forum.
 
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i already brought this up once, and i went into detail and got a warning.

im not saying it bci have no argument, im saying it bc the mods dont want me to go into detail. much like stating the general idea of murder is fine but explaining how someone was killed is not appropriate for this age group.
 
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I mean there's certainly problems with the porn industry that need addressing, but condeming porn as a whole just seems counterproductive and only serves to perpetuate the societal mindset that treats sex workers as subhuman

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the fact that he almost certainly has committed sexual assault

bonus points if the child rape allegations were true
 
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I'm also concerned about the increase of political correctness in sites and college campuses (which include double standards, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and the whole "privilege" thing). Although there are many others, this is what matters more to me.
Double standards are always ****ty, but otherwise I don't see how this is an issue at all. You have the right to say whatever the **** you want just as much as other people have the right to get offended by it no matter how dumb it may be. Honestly though Privilege is real, but theres literally nothing wrong if you are privileged and if people are antagonizing someone for being privileged then they're stupid so ignore them. As far as safe spaces go I think they can be dumb a lot of times, but honestly they never hurt anyone so let people do what they want.
 
I mean there's certainly problems with the porn industry that need addressing, but condeming porn as a whole just seems counterproductive and only serves to perpetuate the societal mindset that treats sex workers as subhuman

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bonus points if the child rape allegations were true

I mean, I don't like "sex work" either, not because I'm a prude and think the women are dirty for engaging in it but...

80% of women in prostitution want out. They only sell sex because it is the only way they can make a living in this world.

I am friends with many ex "sex workers" (a lot of them hate that term, only the happy 20% like it and the rest prefer prostituted because sex work implies they chose it) and it was all an illusion of choice.

They would have not entered that field if they had graduated and gotten a job, not gotten into debt, etc....

And the fact that "pro sex work" lobbying leads the women truly suffering in this field having worse experiences is not good. Their clients are misled into thinking they truly enjoy this work because some women do.

Also, SO many of them have a history of child sex abuse or child sex trafficking and got themselves out but turned back to it because it is the only way of life they know. Some think their only value in this world is sex....some think their only worth is sex.

And no, I do not believe most "sex work is empoweringzz!" campaigns by white middle class sex workers because guess what? Their "pro sex work" org is mostly run by pimps who want to help push prostitution as a good thing to hide their crimes.

Don't jail the poor woman, jail the john and the pimp. But I absolutely do not want this job encouraged.

Some, yes, may truly enjoy having sex all day long for a living. Sure. But their lobbying hurts the women suffering.

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Sources

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/10/inenglish/1484044435_786435.html?rel=mas
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/pdf/Prostitutionin9Countries.pdf

http://traumatizedchildhood.tumblr.com/post/151444968028/niqabisinparis-cinemasavage-whores-glory] (yes this is a tumblr post, but its photos from the documentary i do not have access to atm)

…But I do feel a special place of contempt for the absolute army of twenty-something, socially privileged, very well educated, young white women, who speak about prostitution in terms of “sex work” and “empowerment” and this utter nonsense when they have spent years educating themselves… in order to keep themselves out of the social class of women who are most commonly used in prostitution.

“And you know… formally prostituted women like myself have been delivered and expected to digest the most galling lie about our own histories, that is, we have been told that our imprisonment was liberty - that our slavery was freedom. And when we talk about prostitution, we’re talking about an area of life where women are ritualistically coerced, abused, forced, and silenced. And somehow, in some magical realm that is dressed up as reality, we are expected to believe that these deeply dis-empowering elements add up to empowerment. This is bullst, and it is dangerous bullst - so blatant that it is worthy not only of our utmost contempt, but of our relentless resistance. And it comes from one particular category most forcefully: and those are the women, the young, white, privileged, college educated women I’ve just described.
-Rachel Moran, Irish feminist activist and author and founder of SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment) speaking in an interview with Resistance Radio.

Listen to the full interview here.
 
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sexual abuse and how the laws in my country are about it. the age of consent is low which results in old people going after 15-17 year olds and i kinda really hate that lmao
 
It's a very subjective thing, I think. If people genuinely want to do that, then nobody should be standing in their way. Let them have their options and let them do what they feel is right for them.

I remember watching a documentary about men and women who work in the porn industry, and also a one about elderly women who do it, and they're just signed to a kind of filmmaker studio who pays them to do custom videos for people online and such, and many of the people involved were saying they got a kick out of it, and good for them! The older women were saying it made them feel sexy and reminded them of when their husbands were still alive.

But it's scary to me that there are still many men and women pressured into that kind of life, feeling like they're not worth anything more or unable to pursue other things. I think that, for them, there should be help. They need all the help they can get. Porn isn't for everybody, and nobody should ever feel like they have to do it. It's like any career, really. If you're not interested, you shouldn't do it.
 
It's a very subjective thing, I think. If people genuinely want to do that, then nobody should be standing in their way. Let them have their options and let them do what they feel is right for them.

I remember watching a documentary about men and women who work in the porn industry, and also a one about elderly women who do it, and they're just signed to a kind of filmmaker studio who pays them to do custom videos for people online and such, and many of the people involved were saying they got a kick out of it, and good for them! The older women were saying it made them feel sexy and reminded them of when their husbands were still alive.

But it's scary to me that there are still many men and women pressured into that kind of life, feeling like they're not worth anything more or unable to pursue other things. I think that, for them, there should be help. They need all the help they can get. Porn isn't for everybody, and nobody should ever feel like they have to do it. It's like any career, really. If you're not interested, you shouldn't do it.

There isn't enough women who enjoy it to meet the demand of porn, much less the sex trade.

They are a minority. Rechecking my source, they're like only 10%.

The truth is, we are always going to be pressuring women from poor backgrounds or from more marginalized backgrounds (natives with 1/3 rate of rape, black women with less support systems) to fulfill the demand.

Legalizing it, encouraging it, only hides their suffering and misleads the consumers into thinking every woman in there chooses to be there and enjoys it. That is not the case. That will never be the case.

The 10% should not be speaking for the majority of marginalized women suffering.

I don't usually bring race into sexual abuse situations, but yes, the truth is that women who are in this 10% are middle class or rich. They are white.

This leaves out potential racism (more likely to have a good education), less chance of a drug addiction before going in (wealth), and the fact that women of color make up most of sex slavery.

There's a reason so many natives go missing around America and Canada. Black women too. They are at the highest risk. They lack social support systems, funding, etc. Their families are more likely to be suffering from domestic violence or drug abuse.

These girls never had a chance in the first place. The system has doomed them from the start, and this is why they turn to sex work. They may lie and say to their client they really love their job, but no, the most of these girls don't want to be in there.

There will never be help for them the longer we keep up the lie that most women in sex work enjoy it.

I'm not even going to get into the fact that so many develop drug addictions and are dependent on their pimp who is involved in the trade as well. No more sex work? No more drugs for you.

So no, I don't think we should even push it as a cool choice because the majority of them are (there is no other word to describe this but) not privileged like the 10%.

Sorry, but they can go get a job at retail. I'd rather 10% of women not live their dream jobs and settle for something meh (there is nothing stopping them from going out and having sex by the way) so 90% can stop being spoken over.

Until we solve this epidemic, there is no way to legalize sex work and make it healthy without a lot of women suffering. The demand is too high, the supply isn't.

Refer to my first source, they discuss how damaging this idea that sex work can be good sometimes is to the other women suffering.
 
There isn't enough women who enjoy it to meet the demand of porn, much less the sex trade.

They are a minority. Rechecking my source, they're like only 10%.

The truth is, we are always going to be pressuring women from poor backgrounds or from more marginalized backgrounds (natives with 1/3 rate of rape, black women with less support systems) to fulfill the demand.

Legalizing it, encouraging it, only hides their suffering and misleads the consumers into thinking every woman in there chooses to be there and enjoys it. That is not the case. That will never be the case.

The 10% should not be speaking for the majority of marginalized women suffering.

I don't usually bring race into sexual abuse situations, but yes, the truth is that women who are in this 10% are middle class or rich. They are white.

This leaves out potential racism (more likely to have a good education), less chance of a drug addiction before going in (wealth), and the fact that women of color make up most of sex slavery.

There's a reason so many natives go missing around America and Canada. Black women too. They are at the highest risk. They lack social support systems, funding, etc. Their families are more likely to be suffering from domestic violence or drug abuse.

These girls never had a chance in the first place. The system has doomed them from the start, and this is why they turn to sex work. They may lie and say to their client they really love their job, but no, the most of these girls don't want to be in there.

There will never be help for them the longer we keep up the lie that most women in sex work enjoy it.

I'm not even going to get into the fact that so many develop drug addictions and are dependent on their pimp who is involved in the trade as well. No more sex work? No more drugs for you.

So no, I don't think we should even push it as a cool choice because the majority of them are (there is no other word to describe this but) not privileged like the 10%.

Sorry, but they can go get a job at retail. I'd rather 10% of women not live their dream jobs and settle for something meh (there is nothing stopping them from going out and having sex by the way) so 90% can stop being spoken over.

Until we solve this epidemic, there is no way to legalize sex work and make it healthy without a lot of women suffering. The demand is too high, the supply isn't.

Refer to my first source, they discuss how damaging this idea that sex work can be good sometimes is to the other women suffering.

I just can't agree with you on some of these points.

Of course, they are a minority. I never said that they weren't. There will be men and women out there who desperately need help to get away from that kind of life, of course, but the ones that quite happily do it by their own will should not be shamed or persecuted for the decisions that they have made.

I understand what you're trying to say 100%, and I agree with you, but I can't help but feel like you're generalising too much. Not everyone who works in that industry hates it, has a drug action, and is on the verge of being homeless. I know quite a lot of people who do it, actually, and underneath they don't see it as anything more than a hobby.

Just because a law is misinterpreted doesn't mean that it shouldn't be there. That's like saying the legalisation of transgendered men in women's bathrooms will somehow legalise child abusers on the side. It's a separate issue that anyone with a half brain would recognise as illegal and wrong, pressuring vulnerable women into doing things they've made clear they don't want to do.

Again, I agree that there are an uncountable amount of people in the world who need desperate help, but you can't generalise everybody like that. It's not always black and white.
 
This is definitely one of my top issues, too, and has been for a long while.

However, my biggest concern right now is that we have a man as our president who I believe is very likely a traitor to this country and who I believe colluded with Russia to help himself in the election and hurt Hillary Clinton. I'm also concerned about his tax returns, his foreign business connections, his serial lying, the fact that he almost certainly has committed sexual assault, etc.

I am actually disappointed in Trump. I thought he would actually do what he promised (and he did on some of them), but now he's like George Bush when it came to expanding war. And not like George Bush, he did it within his first 100 days, and didn't have a good reason to start it.

And I am aware that Trump wants to defund the entire state of California. Although the state government is being defiant and getting more corrupt, I was born in California, and defunding a state from all federal funds is a 10th amendment violation too.

Yes, he is corrupt. My pet apples hated him ever since he started running for president.
 
Men's rights and social equality.
There's currently no domestic abuse shelters for men, and a huge lack of eating disorder programs that allow males to join, since they're rejected for several different reasons. Also, same goes with sexual abuse. Suicide in men has increased in numbers and it's gotten worse. They're now mocked as being "weak" and people are telling them to "suck it up."
I'd go on more, but there's too much to say.

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sexual abuse and how the laws in my country are about it. the age of consent is low which results in old people going after 15-17 year olds and i kinda really hate that lmao

Well, why?

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Double standards are always ****ty, but otherwise I don't see how this is an issue at all. You have the right to say whatever the **** you want just as much as other people have the right to get offended by it no matter how dumb it may be. Honestly though Privilege is real, but theres literally nothing wrong if you are privileged and if people are antagonizing someone for being privileged then they're stupid so ignore them. As far as safe spaces go I think they can be dumb a lot of times, but honestly they never hurt anyone so let people do what they want.

Well, the thing is. Safe spaces are basically teaching the generation to hide away from things they can't handle. They're being shielded from the "outside" and funding is going into these programs that won't provide anything for them.
 
LGBT+ rights and social equality in general.

Well, the thing is. Safe spaces are basically teaching the generation to hide away from things they can't handle. They're being shielded from the "outside" and funding is going into these programs that won't provide anything for them.

I really don't get why people keep hating on the concept of safe spaces. As far as I'm aware, they're just places where minorities don't have to deal with being discriminated against, and I don't see the problem with that. Why is it bad that they want places where their identities aren't being attacked?
 
As far as safe spaces go I think they can be dumb a lot of times, but honestly they never hurt anyone so let people do what they want.

They do hurt people, though, by making them ill-prepared for real life.

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I really don't get why people keep hating on the concept of safe spaces. As far as I'm aware, they're just places where minorities don't have to deal with being discriminated against, and I don't see the problem with that. Why is it bad that they want places where their identities aren't being attacked?

They're not, though. It is usually a bunch of infantilizing horse pucky where they have therapy dogs, play-doh, etc. where people go and hide when a speaker that they don't like is on campus. You make it sound like a Black Students Association or a Gay-Straight Alliance, or something, which is not what it is at all.
 
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They do hurt people, though, by making them ill-prepared for real life.

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They're not, though. It is usually a bunch of infantilizing horse pucky where they have therapy dogs, play-doh, etc. where people go and hide when a speaker that they don't like is on campus. You make it sound like a Black Students Association or a Gay-Straight Alliance, or something, which is not what it is at all.

Exactly. It's become more of a thing where people who are afraid of contradictory opinions can shield themselves from beliefs they don't agree with (typically conservative beliefs).
 
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