The British 'I Don't Speak German' podcast guy. I'm no longer on this nazi chan board owned by an antisemite. Find me at @timescarcass.bsky.social instead.
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May 20, 2023 β’ 21 tweets β’ 3 min read
The book I'm reading at the moment, Deborah Tuerkheimer's 'Credible', analyses what happens when women allege rape through the lens of the concept of credibility. /1
Tuerkheimer says women go into the process with a credibility deficit, i.e. they are going to encounter a world of officialdom and social/cultural reactions that assumes she lacks credibility, that actively looks for reasons to discount her story. /2
May 20, 2023 β’ 4 tweets β’ 2 min read
From Tuerkheimer's 'Credible'. One of the many ways reactionaries live in a fantasy world is their belief that men are at big risk from false rape claims. The opposite is true. Police effectively give US men a licence to rape by discounting huge numbers of cases from the start.
It is routine in America for police to reject 30-40% of reported rapes as unfounded, i.e. false. In places it is more like two thirds, or higher. Social scientists estimate rates of false rape reporting at between 2-5%. Cops are predisposed to disbelieve women.
May 18, 2023 β’ 6 tweets β’ 1 min read
This whole dismay on the part of big capitalists about home working is actually dismay about not being able to squeeze surplus value out of workers, a crucial part of which is controlling the workers' time. But it's their own system to blame.
They've squeezed labour out of production - at least in the Western service / admin economy - to the point that they can barely ever meet the profit rates they need.