he's got a *COUCH* bro

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

On the seventh day of May in the year of 2016 on hither spot the mighty warrior Ulf hath slain a dragon with his spear.

Yeah. So many people (especially Europeans) act like the Nazis just randomly invented antisemitism in the 1930s. That's a convenient fiction because it absolves other countries of the responsibility to acknowledge, confront, and make amends for their own antisemitism but it has no basis in reality.

Jew hatred was rampant across Europe for centuries before the Nazis existed and was deeply embedded in many European cultures. It was out of this cultural milieu of systemic and ingrained Jew hatred that the Nazis emerged. That's why a lot of the Nazis' propaganda relied on antisemitic tropes that already had existed in Europe for centuries, though they sometimes repacked it in new language (for example misusing Darwinism). The Nazis were particularly effective in their systematic murder of Jews, but their Jew hatred was not an aberration. In addition to domestically produced propaganda Nazi publications regularly promoted the work of antisemites from across Europe - from France to Russia.

For example, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, one of the most damaging pieces of antisemitic propaganda of all time (and one widely disseminated by the Nazis) was created not by a German but by a Russian Tsar in order to blame the Jewish people for his own failings as a ruler.

(And European immigrants to the U.S. also brought their antisemitism with them, though it was somewhat less virulent and violent in the U.S. than in Europe).

Spain's history of antisemitism is legendary. Centuries of state-sanctioned butchering of Jews by mobs as well as by agents of the government. Spain has expelled its Jews, taken their possessions, torn them apart and burned them for sport in acts of mob violence, tortured them to death in prisons, etc. Spanish soil is drenched with Jewish blood and has been for centuries.

Imagine if after WWII Germany had just gone about its business, never banned any Nazi things or tried to deprogram Nazi ideology? Imagine how wildly antisemitic it would be there today. That's basically what happened with Spain. They have never admitted their antisemitism or tried to remove it from their culture or educate their populace about it. There's literally a "fun" tradition in one part of Spain where they drink a drink called "killing the Jews" and then call to other people to ask "how many Jews did you kill?" The tradition traces back to when Spanish mobs would hunt Jews for sport. And don't forget. During WWII Spain was fascist and pro-Nazi.

I have yet to see anything on Tumblr about this specific topic yet but its still fairly new and developing but it NEEDS to be brought up. So I guess thats me this time.

There was a full on antisemitic protest outside of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in K-Town in Los Angeles, complete with antisemitic slurs A La David Duke style, threats and acts of violence, intimidation and even doing this in front of their own children they brought to the protest scaring the fucking crap out of their own kids, allegedly in the name of Palestine and Palestinian children.

The synagogue, like many, is ALSO A CHILDRENS SCHOOL. And at the time HAD CHILDREN, TODDLERS, INSIDE. Who ended up on LOCKDOWN terrified because of these fucks. Also to add the children where there for things separate to the even they where "protesting", such as a mommy and me class.

And you know what event they where protesting? Safety. It was an event to teach both Jews and Koreans of K Town safety tips. They harassed, terrified and threatened literal toddlers calling the people inside "genocide supporters" over a fucking safety tip meeting. They painted the inverted red triangle, used by Hamas to mark their targets, over a school for children. While allegedly protesting for children.

This is a sick sick insanity tbh.

You know if the Hamasniks could avoid living down to their idolized fan group by literally hiding behind their own children who they brought with them as they spew curses and profanity and throw glass at Jews in a Synagogue, that'd be nice.

Pornography in general actually helps reduce and prevent instances of rape and sexual assault, and there is plenty of statistical evidence and scientific study regarding this:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.htm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of-smut/

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/28803/title/Porn–Good-for-us-/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201001/pornography-beneficial-or-detrimental

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19665229

Here’s a paper from a feminist perspective that argues in favor of pornography on the grounds that it demedicalizes female sexuality (meaning that it psychologically benefits women as well):

http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=tma

Fun fact:  The rate of forcible rape has actually declined dramatically since 1979–by OVER 80% (in fact, ALL violent crime has dropped dramatically in only the past two decades).  Here–have yet another source on this decline.  And, mind you, this is while the willingness of victims and others in reporting instances of rape has actually increased.  The “statistic” being passed around regarding rape is not only false, but completely and utterly outlandish.  The woman who conducted the original surveys the “1 in 4” nonsense came from did so with a very extreme bias, and disregarded the actual feelings of the women she questioned.  Not only were consensual one-night-stands that the subjects later regretted considered to be “rape”, but this article notes that even a kiss was classified as “sexual assault” (oh, and by the way, you might be interested in learning that 40% of rapists ARE WOMEN.  Know what’s extra super gross about that?  A decent portion of them are mothers sexually abusing their own children.  In fact, mothers statistically carry out the majority of abuse against children).  In any case, it’s interesting how the decline in rape coincides with the increased availability of pornography that came with the wider distribution of home video devices.

BONUS ROUND:  If we’re going to talk about chosen media causing violent behavior, we should take a moment to include video games.  Video games are FAR more immersive than pornography, as the player is the one controlling the action.  In spite of what parents in the 90′s believed, it actually turns out that hey–video games actually DON’T cause violent behavior:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-out-outside-in/201212/violent-video-games-and-movies-causing-violent-behavior

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/longterm-us-study-finds-no-links-between-violent-video-games-and-youth-violence-9851613.html

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/08/27/in-new-study-video-games-not-tied-to-violence-in-high-risk-youth/58934.html

http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20150403/violent-video-games-dont-influence-kids-behavior-study

Now, if something a person actively controls in which they have the ability to gun down and tear apart everything from people to animals doesn’t contribute to overall violence in real life, then why the fuck would watching pornography?

As for whether or not pornography has any kind of negative psychological impact that contributes to the creation of rapists, let’s examine the idea scientifically.  Acts of violence (including sex crimes) are not a product of any singular aspect of our culture - they are a product of a lack of function in the brain, particularly the pre-frontal cortex.  No amount of pornography is going to damage a person’s brain. You could bombard a man with violent imagery of rape and murder, but mere image and suggestion is not going to disable the functioning of the pre-frontal cortex.  This area of the brain is responsible for controlling our impulses.  For most human beings, this keeps us from acting out against what we’ve learned to be the appropriate behavior in our society. Time and again,  science has shown us that the brains of violent criminals are not the same as those of the average person. 

The people that commit rape lack the empathy to connect with their actions towards others. They are more than likely already well aware that what they’re doing is wrong.  They simply do not have that little voice in the back of their head that tells them not to actually do it.  What they AREN’T, however, is a product of watching pornography.  The kind of people with the capability to commit rape are not going to be dissuaded from doing so if they’re separated from viewing pornography. 

On top of the differences found in the brains of convicted criminals, there is also the fact that male and female brains are not wired the same (we’re only talking about the basic differences, which doesn’t include gender dysphoria.  These differences are fairly inconsequential to gender identity).  There is a part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres (the corpus callosum) that is smaller in boys than in girls.  Now, studies have frequently shown that violent criminals are also usually the products of broken homes, and childhood abuse.  Such abuse actually reduces that part of the brain even further in boys, while such an effect is not shown to occur in girls that endure abuse at a young age.  It is this part of the brain that effects how they cope with stress and trauma at their earliest points in life. 

Violent criminals are not manufactured by pornography, or even by society.  They are manufactured by THEIR OWN, PERSONAL HISTORY AND BIOLOGY, and–like it or not–there’s not a lot that can be done to prevent such damaged individuals from being created.  

There will always exist circumstances under which future criminals can be manufactured, because no matter how advanced we are, and no matter what higher levels of existence we attain, there will always be bad homes, and bad parents.

Here are even more resources for further reading:

http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2034&context=fac_pubs

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/12/how-to-spot-a-murderers-brain

http://www.businessinsider.com/murder-brain-scan-2013-5

http://www.livescience.com/13083-criminals-brain-neuroscience-ethics.html

http://chronicle.com/article/Can-This-Man-Predict-Whether/127792

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-15386740

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128116806

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/840.html

http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/

http://articles.courant.com/2012-12-06/news/hc-jusino-1207-20121206_1_murder-conviction-second-murder-brain

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/09/this_is_your_brain_on_murder_what_the_mind_of_a_psychopath_looks_like/

Have more sources I couldn’t figure out where to fit in:

http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-50-DV-Myths.pdf

http://tenaflyviper.tumblr.com/post/123840295875/because-i-still-see-people-defending-a-woman-for

That last one contains numerous sources showing the damage that the “rape culture” hysteria is enabling.  And yes, it is just hysteria (at least it wouldn’t be the dumbest thing that people in America have believed en masse).  This is exactly why RAINN, the leading organization devoted to the aid of rape victims, discourages the teaching of “rape culture” on college campuses.

Basically, pornography not only doesn’t encourage sexual violence against women, but actually helps prevent it.  Unlike you, I actually have a shit ton of evidence to prove it.

I too, could pick one or two studies that correlate porn to sexual aggression, and then post a few dozen Psychology Today articles referencing my two studies to make it look like I’ve got a “shit-ton of evidence.” But really, I’d still have one or two data points.

More importantly, your central point is that if rape has declined in a country, porn must be good. Leaving aside the obvious correlation/causation mess, I’ll agree that the internet will readily provide data showing reported rape has declined during the 80′s and 90′s in the US. (I don’t have the free time to research the fluctuations in rape rates in the other 169 countries of the world, you’ll have to forgive me there.)

But. 

What if your data was flawed?

Your whole argument would kinda fall apart, wouldn’t it?

Here’s an excerpt from the Human Rights Watch article U.S.: SOARING RATES OF RAPE AND VIOLENCE

(New York, December 18, 2008) - A new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault over a two-year period in the United States deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration, Human Rights Watch said today. The statistics show a 42-percent increase in reported domestic violence and a 25-percent increase in the reported incidence of rape and sexual assault.

Why the disparity, you ask? well, the NCVS changed its methodology.

“The National Crime Victimization Survey is conducted every two years, with data gathered in phone calls made to a sample of households across the United States. Due to criticism from experts in the subject, the survey’s methodology was adjusted in 2007 to capture more accurately the incidence of gender-based violence. The authors say in the report that the higher numbers may reflect the new, more accurate methodology rather than an actual increase. Two major shifts were to describe types of sexual assault to those being interviewed, and to replace “computer-assisted telephone interviews conducted from two telephone centers” nationwide with interviews “by field representatives either by telephone or in person.”

I guess it turns out that trauma victims don’t like disclosing their trauma histories via robocall.

“The new numbers indicate that previously, the government significantly underestimated the number of individuals affected by domestic and sexual violence in this country,” said Tofte. “Authorities should urgently adjust public policies, law enforcement, and provision of support services accordingly.”

I’d also like to add that the NCVS does not survey anyone under the age of 12, which means child rape victims are not being officially counted.

So if you believed that Rape Down = Porn Good, logically you would have to concede that Rape Up = Porn Bad. Or are you now going to backpedal into correlation doesn’t equal causation?

What else you got?