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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Disavow yourself of this opinion immediately.
There is nothing "simple" about accusing someone of rape or sexual assault.
There is room for a discussion on the impacts of media on fair trial and innocence until proven guilt, but let's not diminish the act of accusing someone of something like this to triviality. Most cases of sexual assault or rape are in fact never reported because of the complexity, stress, pain, and often retribution caused by reporting.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
No, it's not irrelevant, and you continue to trivialize the nature of accusing someone of rape. It's not a simple matter.
There's definite validity in having a fulsome discussion about how any criminal accusation can dramatically effect a person's life in a wide variety of ways, and how perhaps our system of rapid social media dispersal of all news and commentary on said news devolves rapidly into pseudo mob mentality where the common refrain is to lynch the accused... but not by spitting out #### like "simply" accusing someone. It's not simple, it's very serious. Trivializing it actually mentally reduces the barrier for people to falsely accuse and thus perform the exact type of systemic abuse you're referring to.
Regardless, this is a bad news story for the club. His guilt actually doesn't matter to the public image of the club at this point, for the exact mob mentality reasons referenced above. How to minimize impact to the club is probably the priority.
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This is a really solid example of manufactured righteousness. It's silly and does nothing to help any part of this situation.
We all know what dissentowner's intent was and what they meant with their comment, and it neither diminishes nor trivializes victims' experiences.