US Politics on Sidechat | I think a lot of you guys need to make the choice between having actual due process and "believing victims". You cannot treat Rape like this special crime where you're suddenly removed from due process or a fair trial.

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I think a lot of you guys need to make the choice between having actual due process and "believing victims". You cannot treat Rape like this special crime where you're suddenly removed from due process or a fair trial.

Anonymous 1d

This is an important conversation to explore. The system treats women reporting rape extremely differently from White men accused of rape (often victim blaming vs making excuses). People say believe women because women have such a hard time reporting rape due to systemic, financial, and emotional reasons. Most rapists will never spend a day in jail because the crime is underreported and often not taken seriously. Let me know your thoughts, hoping to have a productive dialogue about this

Anonymous

#1 22h

i think there’s a tension between who is given the benefit of the doubt. i think broadly we tend to give that benefit more to the accused than the accuser (and i mean across the board, women who sexually assault men are also often dismissed. it’s a less common occurrence, but worth noting the pattern)

Anonymous

#2 15h

Yeah but that's how the justice system works. You have to prove someone is guilty not prove somebody isn't guilty.

Anonymous

#1 15h

It's pointless to look at underreported cases when discussing because we don't have actual data. How many cases of let's say child abuse is underreported based on that reasoning? My main issue is a lot of people getting very emotionally charged when people look at something like the Cornell case and examine what actually happened. We don't run off mob justice and that's a good thing.