Quote (bogie160 @ Aug 2 2020 05:40pm)
There's no dichotomy between "rule of law" and "justice for rape victims". There are long term, negative repercussions to eroding an individual's right to face their accuser and vindicate themselves in the public sphere. It is possible (as we have seen from the outset of the movement) to prosecute cases with evidence that protect both the rights of the accuser and the accused. McCarthyism is not retroactively "right" because it nabbed some communists, which is almost certainly did, but wrong because it destabilized the rule of law by denying basic human rights to those accused of an offense. The same is true here.
Which, again, means that people should stop bullying people who are accused of crimes before the course of law has taken place.
It has everything to do with 5e way people behave on social media, and has nothing to do with the movement of #MeToo itself.
If this thread were about a different crime, unrelated to the dynamics between men and women, Duffman would not have made a post about it. He only cares about the story because he can twist it to discredit a movement of female empowerment.
This post was edited by Leevee on Aug 2 2020 09:54am