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		brabel 72 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat C... You cherry picked a few outliers. Here’s a chart showing many countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rape_in_the_Unite... It’s clearly going down in most places, including the USA.

flir 72 days ago [–]

I googled my country, the USA, and the two European countries I have most experience of. I didn't cherry pick anything, I just stopped.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible...

I don't know what to tell you, except to say the messiness of the data goes to underline how poorly sourced your claim is.

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