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You are really reaching to make people look bad. Only the last comment reaches your accusation, and it's not by the person you've been calling out all along. The first two comments simply point out the fact that we have no idea what the reality is and jumping to conclusions and casting judgment from that position is foolish.
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I entirely disagree. Part of the reason I got into this thread is because of the implications being made against the victim in this story. He could have easily said that "We don't have all the facts in this story, so we can't start jumping to conclusions." Instead he starts saying things like "Well others are calling her a whore," and implying that because other women are sociopathic liars that she could be aswell. It was needless and an attack on someone, who as far as we have been told right now, is a rape victim. There is no evidence that she is lying, but some circumstantial evidence that she was raped. Even still. A rape victim needs to be given the benefit of the doubt, and at the very least supported at this stage. Just as it is innocent until proven guilty for the prosecuted
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Do you understand that there is a difference between discussing what could have potentially happened and insinuating that the victim is to blame? Or is this a case where any discussion that doesn't take everything reported as unquestioned fact turns into blaming the victim?
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This is a case that until it is proven she lied, you should not be blaming the victim. Ever. There is already a stigma for rape victims to come forward because of the very things happening in this thread: they won't be believed. Just because it is a "discussion" does not mean it is appropriate to blame the young girl who could have just possibly been raped.
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We've also seen recent cases of rape claims resulting in innocent people being railroaded.
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Links? Sources on that? I am assuming you mean by the law.
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Do I think that accusing people of insinuating that the victim is a whore because they question immediate media reports is completely asininie? I sure do.
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If all they said was "I don't really know how reliable to news is being here." I'd have not posted in this thread.