Minnesota Public Radio won't allow dissenting comments on campus "Rape Culture"

Submitted by charlie on Mon, 2014-05-05 15:11

I've been trying to get MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) to allow comments that are counter to their decidedly feminist bias. In a recent story two "experts" were interviewed on the "campus rape culture." Both "experts" were advocates for the idea of "rape culture". The was no balance from civil rights advocates or others, who see this issue as an Obama administration political ploy. I've now been banned from commenting on any MPR story. I've asked for an explanation, but have gotten no response. Excerpt:

'The federal government last week named 55 colleges under investigation for suspected failure to deal adequately with sexual assault.

Reports of campus rapes are up significantly, but it's unclear whether those higher numbers represent more crimes or simply a greater willingness to report them. Research cited by the White House shows that 1 college woman in 5 experiences sexual assault, but that only about 12 percent of survivors file a report.'

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I can't confirm or deny what the submitting MANN reader (user ID: charlie) said about MPR banning him from commenting on this story, but I have no reason not to believe him. Given that feminist PC-ness rules the day around this topic, I am inclined to believe him, as his assertion is entirely believable on its face.

But I will say some of the comments are pretty durned good given the hyperventilation typically seen with regard to it. Examples:

"My daughter is a student at the Univ. of Minnesota and was sexually assaulted by 2 girls at a party in January. She has not reported because she feels no one will take her seriously since her attackers were not men. She has dropped out this semester and is severely depressed."

"Keri, please ask the guests why colleges are handling an issue of law and order. Shouldn't the police be investigating sexual assault? If you've been assaulted, why would you call your university and not 911?"

"@KerriMPR schools fear bad publicity and shove this under the rug."

Etc. Good to see some thinking outside the typical feminist line getting some air, anyway.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-05-06 04:06

Thanks for posting this and commenting on the story at MPR. I'm still blocked from commenting, probably due to some of my comments on previous stories. Other than the fact that I ask them for a balanced approach to their reporting, I don't really know why I am blocked. They do a lot of feminist-advocacy reporting, in which they interview a couple of feminist "scholars." It seems to be beyond them that there are other points of view out there. In the above story they trashed both college staff and police by claiming that they were doing nothing about sexual assaults. Neither police or college staff were represented as a counter point.

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Submitted by charlie on Tue, 2014-05-06 12:17

I posted a series of comments today under my last name...

They are posted still.

My personal advice... NPR specifically deletes all posts with strong language or with links to external sites. In my case, I posted a PDF link to a government site... I suppose taht got past the filter.

Of course it is also possible that they do not like reason.

I posted mine at 10AM Norway time. So she might have been in bed when it appeared and now that there are LIKES,; she is afraid to delete it.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Tue, 2014-05-06 16:31

Charlie,

Last night (I am in Norway) I emailed MPR and told them you were blocked and I was also blocked.

I wrote directly to the station manager. The email was strongly but politely worded with a threat taht I would take this example of censorship to the Republican Party (which is alwasy threatening to cut of NPR).

I assume my email signature as Professor Emeritus in two countries, got them to thinking.

I am glad you can now post.

I agree with yuour post and also responded to Stephanie.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2014-05-07 07:41