Rick Perry suggests fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault
Source: The Hill
BY AVERY ANAPOL - 11/02/17 09:12 AM EDT
Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested Thursday that expanding the use of fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault.
Speaking during an energy policy discussion about energy policy with Meet the Press Chuck Todd and Axios CEO and founder Jim VandeHei, Perry discussed his recent trip to Africa. He said a young girl told him that energy is important to her because she often reads by the light of a fire with toxic fumes.
"But also from the standpoint of sexual assault, Perry said. When the lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will on those types of acts.
Link to tweet
Perry said that using fossil fuel to push power into remote villages in Africa is necessary and will have a positive role in peoples lives. President Trump has called for expanding domestic production of fossil fuels to export.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358386-rick-perry-fossil-fuels-will-help-prevent-sexual-assault
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Gawd help us all.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)with a higher I.Q.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I can't think of a more perfect vegetable than squash for a battle of wits with Perry.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)with more intelligent material than Perry.
Botany
(70,516 posts)That statement is stupid and insulting on so many levels.
BTW rural Africa is the perfect place for solar energy.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)who belongs in restraints and on heavy medication. Thought disorders and loose associations are covered by Obamacare.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)intellectuals of the Republican party.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Solar panels bring light and energy to remote villages, but I guess there isn't that much money to be made from them.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Let alone be governor of a state
DemoTex
(25,399 posts)Capt. Rick Perry was a US Air Force pilot. He flew T-38 supersonic trainers and Lockheed C-130s in a tactical airlift squadron. Scary!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)...may be speaking for himself.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Making a jump in poor logic that burning a light would stop a sexual assault, making a point using a village girl in Africa to bolster his stand (and the present administration's stand) about fossil fuel, pushing fossil fuel in third world countries (pollute them there, not here), telling a country to stay behind in the use of fossil fuel rather that looking forward to renewables. I guess Perry loves the idea of women carrying bundles of sticks to be burned for the cooking pots or a land ripped open for that king coal.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)Rick Perry is saying that because little girls sit in the dark they get raped
Its victim blaming. Its disgusting.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's not unreasonable to suggest that a better-lit environment cuts down on instances of all sorts of crime ... in fact, it's actually pretty well-established by statistics at this point.
Now, it IS a rather cheap and fairly tasteless tactic to take the discussion of the subject immediately to 'young girls being assaulted', but I really don't agree that this crosses over into 'victim blaming'. If anything, he's blaming 'the darkness', not the victim.
The really offensive stupidity here ... is suggesting that Fossil Fuels are the only means by which power could be supplied.
angrychair
(8,700 posts)To put this in the simplest terms possible: if a woman is sexually assaulted, it was not because the room was dark.
By insinuating that it would be better for a women to be in well lit rooms to help avoid being raped or sexually assaulted, the implication is that if she doesnt than she bears part of the blame.
Its little different than the way you dress or way you act victim blaming.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hell, I'd get on my hands and knees and BE your damn soapbox.
But ... your 'argument' is still a non-sequitur to what the dude was saying.
Let me illustrate for you ... a perfect analogy:
Johnnie OneStory (Trump pick for HUD Chief, heir to the OneStory family fortune, and CEO of OneStory Buildings, Inc): "If only all buildings in the US were OneStory's! No way could 4,000 people have perished on 9/11 from two airplanes being hi-jacked! At most, only 200-400 would've been killed! For the sake of safety, we must tear down ALL Skyscrapers, and replace them all with OneStory's!"
Joe Reader: "How DARE OneStory BLAME the innocent victims of 9/11! It's outrageous he suggests their deaths are all their own fault for showing up to work that day at hi-rise buildings!"
A bit of a nonsensical response by Joe, wouldn't you agree?
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... he's claiming that there's no light for them to sit in, and stupidly suggesting that light -- fossil fuel light to be precise -- would scare off would-be rapists.
I didn't read any "blame" in his comment. He sort of says, it's too bad these girls have to sit in the dark where the rapists are.
Regardless, you are right: if a woman is sexually assaulted, it was not because the room was dark... or light.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Gawd what a humiliation to suffer under this kakistocracy.
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)Perry shouldn't be in charge of pig breeding on a two-pig farm, much less 6,800 thermonuclear warheads.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It must be really scaring and depressing living in a place that's so much like the Dark Side of The Moon ...
Please, Shine Your Light, Secretary Goodhair! Let it SHINE!
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Beartracks
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xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)was undependable in Africa. Frequently cloudy and raining like the US northwest is it?