NEW: Theresa May’s New Housing Adviser Said “There Is No Such Crime” As Date Rape https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/theresa-may-roger-scruton-no-such-thing-date-rape?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter&utm_term=.muqNvEkZa1 … via @alexwickham
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In a lecture in 2005, Roger Scruton said date rape victims were actually "withdrawing consent in retrospect" He also said sexual harassment was "just sexual advances by the unattractive" and therefore a "huge injustice" Video of the lecture herehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/theresa-may-roger-scruton-no-such-thing-date-rape …
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Labour stepping up calls for Theresa May to sack Scruton from his new post as chair of the government's new buildings commission Yesterday
@BuzzFeedNews revealed he had previously said Islamophobia was "invented" and homosexuality not normal https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/theresa-may-calls-sack-housing-adviser-islamophobia …pic.twitter.com/pDHXLVsLyv
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Stuart Millar Retweeted Alan White
Yesterday, a government spokesperson declined to defend Scruton on the record. Still no response today either. But some conservative commentators have leapt to his defencehttps://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1060209186519351296 …
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Stuart Millar Retweeted BuzzFeed UK
Here's the clip of Theresa May's new housing adviser delivering his thoughts on date rape and sexual harassmenthttps://twitter.com/BuzzFeedUK/status/1060216094475120640 …
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1:18BuzzFeed UKVerified account @BuzzFeedUKTheresa May’s new housing adviser said there was “no such crime” as date rape and claimed sexual harassment “just means sexual advances made by the unattractive”. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/theresa-may-roger-scruton-no-such-thing-date-rape?bftwuk&utm_term=4ldqpgm#4ldqpgm … pic.twitter.com/pRRs8FESDV5 replies 39 retweets 30 likesShow this thread
Roger Scruton has responded to our story, claiming he “was in no way suggesting that victims of date rape are not victims of a crime” As we reported, when discussing the “supposed crime of date rape” in 2005 he said “of course there is no such crime”pic.twitter.com/cZtqykddHK
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1st heard of story just thought he was just saying legally there is no official crime of date rape as law classifies all types of rape simply as rape & that some journo had just taken it out of context & made click bait headline out of it. Reading this it’s much worse than that
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