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Rick Perry, yall.
The energy secretary on Thursday actually said this during a discussion about energy policy and Africa: But also from the standpoint of sexual assault. When the lights are on, when you have light that shines the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts. So from the standpoint of how you really affect peoples lives, fossil fuels is going to play a role in that. I happen to think its going to play a positive role.
The implication is that fossil fuels power lights, and those lights can then help prevent or at least expose sexual assault. This manages to be both offensive and wrong.
For one, this claim attempts to use a serious topic sexual assault to score some political points for one of Perrys long-held beliefs about the fossil fuel industry. It just feels gross, as Emily Atkin of the New Republic pointed out on Twitter. How about if instead of talking about the wonders of fossil fuels, we talk about how men just need to stop treating other people like objects?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16599576/rick-perry-fossil-fuels-sexual-assault
lastlib
(23,388 posts)in charge of work involving subatomic particles. God. HELP. Us.!
syringis
(5,101 posts)I'm not an English native speaker and sometimes I need help to understand particular or very technical words.
But here? Did I miss something ?
What is the link between fossil energy and sexual assault?
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)It reminds me my dad. He used to say : each day you will find someone who will push the boundaries of stupidity.
So, what are Perry's thoughts about sexual assault in daylight ??? How will fossil energy prevent from ???
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Proud Democrat
(9 posts)of an idiot!! God help us...
coolsandy
(479 posts)Blindingly apparent
(180 posts)Fossil fuels supply us with righteous light. it is the only source. Neither solar nor wind power can provide us with that righteous light. And as everyone knows, only the righteous light can expose sexual assault?