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Originally Posted by corporatejay
I think we are in agreement. As mentioned in a previous post, I saw several "I believe all women" posts before Patrick Brown even responded. It's just assumed if you have a vagina you are incapable of lying. Nevertheless, giving the timing of this, he has to go if the Cons want to win the election.
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My fear, while not fear, that's the wrong word selection, but my concern is that this has the possibility of being an inverse Salem Witch hunt.
In Salem, if somebody wronged someone, of if they wanted your land, or your husband, or anything else it was as simple as "She's a witch, I saw her singing and two days later I got sick". So over the cliff she goes, if she floats up and flies away she's a witch and must report back for a proper beheading and immolation.
However if she falls to her death, she's either an innocent, or a particularly incompetent witch.
The worry as the #Metoo movement moves along is that there are going to be innocent people that are caught in the net with very little to no recourse, and denials will be treated as lying. Lives will be destroyed that didn't need to be, but we as a society are going to have to answer the question, are we ok with collateral damage here.
We can't encourage or force people to go to the police or file charges. We also can't encourage woman to video tape every date or meeting that we have with a man, or a man with a man or whatever.
But at some point doesn't there need to be some process or some burden of proof?