six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[daredtowork]

99. Think in terms of spaces not races

Let's say there are rapists in America.

Americans don't go around screaming that they aren't responsible for all rapists. The rapes are occurring within sovereign territory: America. Therefore, Americans can make laws and send the creeps to prison.

The gaming community is instantiated in the spaces created by games. That's where all this rape chatter is going on, and that's where the opportunity to shut it down occurs. People on the outside can't get to that. It's up to gamers to police their own here.

All the communities you mentioned actually do have spaces of various sorts where they might choose to own a problem. The African American community will challenge stereotypes that lead to racial profiling, but that doesn't mean they will ignore gang violence or crime that is affecting their own community. They don't use resistance to stereotyping as a way to weasel out of responsibility. They realize it's just as much in their interest to reduce crime in their neighborhoods.