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Originally Posted by transplant99
No...I mean innocent. I mean guys that get labelled as something that did nothing.
Sorry but just because someone says something happened and it cant be proven in a court of law, that does not make them guilty anyhow....THATS the trouble.
I understand that men have taken advantage of situations forever, and those that have should be drawn and quartered. We used to have a system for determining this. That system has now been replaced by 144 character statements from anonymous to well known people, and voila...a persons life is altered, or even ruined. No real investigative process involved...just allegations.
Social media, for all its awesomeness and usefulness at times, has become a bane on everything I believe this country stands for. Even worse IMO, there seems to be zero desire to alter this course. Frightening stuff.
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There is a certain Star Chamber quality to this to be sure, but doing nothing isn't right either. Jian Ghomeshi shouldn't have been left in his position while he fought his accusers, nor should Patrick Brown, nor should Kent Hehr. They are in positions of power over potential victims.
The right thing would be for them to go on paid leave and to fight the accusations if they wish and to be accepted back if they are proven innocent. I get that this is not necessarily fair to the accused, especially if they are innocent, but that's what libel laws are for.
In the case of Ghomeshi and Brown, folk in the media had heard rumours for a while from a lot of areas (according to their twitter feeds last night), but didn't have enough to publish until they got to a certain point.
The Kent Hehr accusation came late last night on twitter from a named account (and is reminiscent of what came up when the Veterans groups and Thalidomide survivor's groups accusations were swirling), but there were immediate nods from other women with history with him. Maybe Hehr's innocent, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence (including from a woman in my personal life of a creepy "flirty" vibe) and that's enough for me.