"there definitely is a demonisation of rape"A Scottish Greens MSP has faced backlash after saying rape exists “on a spectrum”. The comments came during a discussion about compassion and whether acts of violence such as rape can be forgiven. “Because there definitely is a demonisation of rape in the sense of it [rape] is a spectrum. “And I think there’s also different modes of not just consent but also context and conditions under which rape is, well, rape. Q Manivannan, Green MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East on a student visa, responds after circulation of the below clip of him saying “there is a demonisation of rape… it is a spectrum.”