Indian's state minster Babulal Gaur said this last year.
"Rape is sometimes right"
I srsly can't understand how someone like him got this job. For the world largest democracy (country), women are treated pretty badly and are if their own state Minister thinks That rape can be justified then God protect the women out there.
That's an example of a blatantly shameful and irresponsible piece of reporting rather than on problem of the minister. Cheap journalism is just that- Way to pick a phrase out of context and mistranslated.
He was talking about complaints in rape cases not about the action itself. He called rape a social crime and a Vikrit action [an action result of a (mental)deformity in this context] in the same statement. He just didn't phrase it absolute words and later used a pronoun making it easy for reporters often aligned to a different political party themselves to misuse that part in a highly political election atmosphere.
[video]https://youtu.be/Ruddh5veKb0?t=59[/video]
On topic of how to stop rape - he says a rapist cannot be stopped beforehand as it's not like a rapist tells everyone before he commits the crime and it's not like someone driving without a helmet on street whom police could spot and stop ( before the accident). That he/administration cannot be stop it from happening, and can only act when someone reports the case. He went on to say that,
it's a social crime (he literally described it as such) and depends on men and women (in the society rather than the administration). After calling rape a social crime he went back to original topic saying "sometimes it's ( complaint is) right and sometimes it's wrong and can be decided whether it happened only after the report/investigation. ( rough translation).
Apparently Political news media chose to translate "it" as "rape" and presented is as if he said "rape can be something right and sometimes wrong" when he was referring to reported cases involving rape. And what he was referring to should have been clear since he already described rape as a deformity and a social crime. It becomes very clear when someone who knows the language pays attention and listen the whole statement a few times to confirm.
Frankly the stupid sensationalize of such statements, taking things out of context, not asking for an explanation then and there if they really misunderstood a reply hasn't helped the rape victims even. It takes away the focus from the actual problem and people start bringing in argument over how correct it is to blame the victim when that wasn't even the case here.
It didn't help that the leader was from a party media liked to down upon anyway and of course the western media just loves such news even more.
He meant cause womens are provocative...
No i don't agree,they may share a part of the fault due to being provocative and wearing short clothes...
But if someone gets raped then the rapist deserves death punishment...
He meant neither. I linked the video from the news channel itself -only problem is that his statement is in Hindi but he never said the word as they are translated and presented. He was talking about the the reports lodged in such cases - those reports can be right or wrong and that can be decided only after the investigation.
The real topic should be what to do with such low grade Journalism which has little interest in reporting properly. And every next source is simply copying from the previous one and not even bothering to get a first hand translation of the question and exact answer to it. They are just not interested in pausing to look if he really said what's being implied.
We have had some stupid politicians making stupid statements - but this particular statement had nothing in it to go crazy over and it certainly didn't help the cause of rape victims because it started same old argument whether victim blaming is right and wrong and people who want to push blame on victim justifying it.
