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This Graph Shows Exactly What Causes Rape

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This booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office shows Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years' probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, January 2015.
This booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office shows Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years' probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, January 2015.Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office—AP
By Ashley Edwards / Mic

Despite his friends’ and family’s attempts to paint Brock Turner as a victim, the 20-year-old was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman, now 23, while she was unconscious behind a dumpster at a fraternity party on Stanford University’s Palo Alto, California, campus in 2015.

According to Turner’s father, it’s alcohol‘s fault.

According to Turner’s friend Leslie Rasmussen, it was a case of “clouded judgement.”

Read more: How Stanford Rapist Brock Turner’s Mugshot Exposes a Double Standard in the Media

But, as this chart so deftly points out, figuring out who and what to blame is not complicated at all. Because one thing causes rape: Rapists.

Clothing, excessive drinking, flirting and walking alone all are not reasons — or excuses — for rape.

Read more: This is Why You’re Only Now Seeing Brock Turner’s Mugshot

Rapists are the sole cause of rape. Period.

So, Brock Turner apologists: Please refer to the chart in case there is any further confusion.

This article originally appeared on Mic.com

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