Melania Trump says Sexual Assault victims shouldn't report unless they have evidence

[LadyForCamus]

The president of the United States is contributing to a rape culture right now, by mocking alleged victims in front of large audiences, and perpetuating false narratives about the length of time victims take to come forward.

Do you really interpret that as promoting rape?  I think you would be hard pressed to find too many people who condone and support rape. Even probably many rapist know it’s wrong, and I don’t think promote a “rape culture”

It seems though like anymore anyone that doesn’t agree with lynching someone without evidence, is said to be promoting a rape culture. It’s an abuse of language.

However the racist comment below is fine, because of who it’s towards.

RR, you don’t have to be out there screaming, “rape is awesome”, in order to perpetuate rape culture.  Just like there are plenty of people with erroneous views about African Americans who don’t think of themselves as racist, but who are inadvertently perpetuating racial stereotypes that harm black people.  Pushing the false narrative: “if she was REALLY assaulted she would have told some one right away”, contributes to the silence of future victims, and harms their credibility in the eyes of society.  It also sends potential perpetrators the message: “no one is going to believe her anyway.”  Yeah, these things collaboratively perpetuate rape culture.