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Amish men ‘shunned’ after nationwide emergency alert outs them for having phones
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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As "innocent" as they are portrayed, the hypocrisy is the least of their problems. Their abuse of both people and animals is extremely widespread and rarely talked about.
The worst part was the hypocrisy. Well that and all the raping.
Man just calling out the rape doesn't do it justice.
They rape and "freshen up" the gene pool now and then. They rape to fix problems caused by rape.
If you don't feel uncomfortable with that thought in your head, then add to it the puppy mills.
They are not a holy people.
Whoosh
Are puppy mills more efficient than wind mills?
Wait, what? I have a feeling I was better off being ignorant.
Part of mainstream Amish theology is basically that it's the job of the community to handle people sinning, not outsiders, and after rape has been "handled" by a period of shunning it's basically forbidden for community members to not re-embrace them, including their victim.
Fucking nightmare for the victims, for obvious reasons.
But also, & more likely as suggested above, a Norm MacDonald joke. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljaP2etvDc4
The man they mention in this article (Eli Yoder) regularly brings it up and confronts it.
He interviewed a woman one time who was raped by her brothers and she got in trouble right along with them for being “tempting” and not modest enough.
The abuse started when she was a small child.
They don’t go to the police when they catch people, they take them to the elders and punish them within the group. They usually just get shunned for a bit.
Wives regularly get blamed when their daughters are abused by their husbands. “You should do your wifely duties so he isn’t tempted.”
I’ve heard some wild stories watching this guy.
He really works hard to bring education and information to people who are trapped in that reality. He also provides resources and support when people want to escape.