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Not sure there is a statement I could disagree with more. Personally I'm proud society appears to finally hold abusers to the law and protect women.
Holding abusers to the law and protecting women is universally accepted, luke.
Nobody is disagreeing with those things.
But “innocent until proven guilty” still applies, doesn’t it?
First, let’s see if he’s found guilty, THEN we’ll hang him.
And yet in sexual assault cases, often it is the victim who is guitly until proven innocent...and frankly sometimes they are never proven innocent in the eyes of many, even when the accused is convicted.
It is a complete social double standard.
And no one in this thread has said that Rath is guilty. Everyone knows how the trial system works.
BUT what you do get is a number of people finding ways to assert there could not really be a crime. And it is no accident those echo, however remotely or distantly, the national tendency to "blame the victim" in both felony and misdemeanor sexual assault cases.
That IS a national tendency to do that. It is out there. It's probably the main reason why (some estimate) only 1/4th of such assault cases are ever even reported.
Only in the last few years has there been a strong counter-tendency to resist that kind of double standard in cases like that. And that's what you're hearing here.
NO ONE has said Rath IS guilty. What they HAVE said is that spinning stories where the accusation cannot possibly be valid, echoes a bad national tendency, as I said.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/08/2019 09:05AM by zn.
