It’s a serious epidemic and the amount of lives ruined by false accusations pales in comparison to the amount of victims that come forward and the amount of those who are too afraid to come forward.
That’s a false dichotomy. Not believing accusations by default doesn’t mean we disbelieve them either, or discourage victims from reporting. It just means judgement needs to be withheld pending investigation.
Also you can always appeal your case.
Not how it works for rape accusations. You don’t have to be convicted to lose your job, friends, family. If you’re a victim of a false accusation, you’re as much a victim as any rape victim.
It’s not even close to comparable. It’s almost like voter fraud with the amount of cases where someone has lied about being raped.
Nobody’s claiming the numbers are similar. I’m pointing out the absurdity of defaulting to believing any accusation without evidence.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
There is what you are talking about and then there is the reality of the sexual assault crisis in America. I understand what you are saying. But the reality of the situation is that people who step forward should be given the benefit of the doubt because of the evidence and history of sexual violence especially towards children and women being ignored in the United States and the absolute miscarriage of justice that is. The balance as it stands now is hardly any of rape or sexual misconduct allegations are taken seriously or even investigated.
Just look at our president and his history with abusing minors and adults basically all out in the open for decades. That is the state of justice with regards to sexual assault in the U.S.
There is not an epidemic of people losing their jobs or becoming social pariahs because of false rape claims. There is an epidemic of sexual violence against children and women and men in the United States. No one is convicted because someone just claims they have been assaulted.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You’re a rapist.
Prove otherwise or go to jail.
Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah because if you, as an individual, believe that someone is a rapist, they go to jail.
Genius.
You must be a second account of someone I debunked before, it’s not possible that you would just spit out the same exact shit.
Did you get banned and made a new account?
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Make it formal. File a complaint with the police and let them investigate me for my alleged rape of you dear internet stranger and see how that goes.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Oh wait, now you’re advocating for an investigation? I thought we just needed an accusation to be presumed guilty?