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'Rapey-afghans' makes rape an Afghan trait, with the Somali British candidate renamed again for good measure.

SeverityHatefulTreats a group as lesser, dangerous, or not fully human, whether it says so about the group or about one person for belonging to it. Everything at this level.
Who said itKTHopkins (X)
Who it targetsAfghan people assigned rape as a national trait, alongside the renamed Somali British candidate
TrackProtected groupsProtected-group hate and political-opponent extremism are counted apart, and neither total is presented as a score against the other. Everything on this track.
What was said

Hundreds of Patriot Platform activists descended on Portsmouth on the night of September 6, and 4chan /pol/ threads called the arrivals "illegal rapists". On September 10, KTHopkins posted on X that someone had been "out DEI'd" by a Somali British candidate, whom she renamed with an Indian curry dish, and went on: "Given the choice between rapey-afghans and robots, I choose the robots". No Afghan person, case or incident is mentioned. Rape is attached to a nationality as a description of what its people are, and the choice offered is between those people and machines. The post drew 87,569 views.

Why it counts

Rapey-afghans makes rape the defining fact about Afghan people. There is no incident behind the word, so it can't be answered with facts about an incident; it describes a nationality's nature. Choosing robots over them ranks the people below machines.

The renaming settles the rest. Calling a Somali British candidate by the name of a curry dish a second time, in the same breath, shows the post is about origin, and the two targets are handled the same way. A fair-minded reader should take this as a nationality assigned a sex crime as its character, with a British candidate mocked for her background alongside.

The receipts

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KTHopkins (X)

"out DEI’d by Sag Aloo. Given the choice between rapey-afghans and robots, I choose the robots"

2026-09-10 · source

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