Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 week agoThat whole article basically sums to they settled out of court, which proves nothing.
Innocent until proven guilty.
Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 week agoThat whole article basically sums to they settled out of court, which proves nothing.
Innocent until proven guilty.
zeezee@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Settling doesn’t prove innocence nor guilt - but as #MeToo has shown - SA is so prevalent that’s it’s usually better to err on the side of caution and assume the worst instead of claiming “fame” as a reason people try to seek justice from their abusers.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 week ago
#MeToo has also shown that there are people out there will claim SA as a form of revenge or in attempt to get money of the situation.
As things are, the man is always assumed guilty even when proven innocent.
I try not to take accusations at face value for this reason. You have to put your self in their shoes; If someone accuses you of SA 30 years ago, what do you do? How do you convince people it never happened or in the case of two consenting adults hooking up, how do convince people it was consensual.
By the time you prove your innocence, you’ve lost your job, friends, family, possibly divorced, children all have 100 mile restraining orders and have been told terrible things about you…your life is fucked because some saw the #MeToo movement and figured out there are 0 consequences for fucking up someone’s life.
That being said, if the accused is proven guilty, then feel free to chop of their head (not the one attached to the neck).