Rick Perry: Fossil fuels can help fight sexual assault
Rick Perry, y’all.
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 people’s lives, fossil fuels is going to play a role in that. I happen to think it’s 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 Perry’s 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
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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 ???
