My opinion is merely that we should have evidence before firing or ruining. I hold it as one who was victimized. This is called due process &it's a foundation of our justice system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation … "It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"https://twitter.com/TabethaRay/status/950462741315137536 …
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The problem comes when they call a person "racist" and stuff like that where it isn't immediately obvious that they aren't (to the surface reader). Or they take something you said/wrote out of context to make it look like you are.
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Yes, exactly. Something plausible. I once phrased a tweet badly so it could be read as racist rather than condemning racism & a load of people were determined to believe the worst. Fortunately, I didn't have many followers and no committed enemies then. Now it would be bad. Scary
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You're talking due process, but we're only talking about attending this college, turns to we're only talking about going to college at all, turns to we're only talking about losing a job, turns to we're only talking about being branded publicly, turns to going to jail.
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Yes. And being publicly shamed is life-destroying even if jail isn't a possibility. My friend had a schizophrenic sister who had delusions that she had been raped & made lots of accusations. Some of those men's lives were ruined even tho they were never charged.
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It wasn't her fault. She wasn't lying. She really thought it had happened. But mud sticks. I'd be very wary of a man who had been accused of rape but never charged. Different to accusations of racism but those can also tar you for life.
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The sad fact is, you can never unring that bell. People will always assume that where's there's smoke, there's fire. And too many people are too quick to dismiss baseless accusations.
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