These two men were enormously rich and successful even before the allegations were madehttps://twitter.com/AllieBeauregard/status/836076903412944896 …
there's little motive to falsely accuse somebody of raping you... it's admitting something extremely taboo and shameful: rare
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stats on false rape allegations and what we know about humans not wanting to admit horrible stuff about selves back this up
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if anything we should empower and encourage survivors & victims to speak up not scare them with false rape allegations stories
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I think it's possible to empower people to speak up whilst also not making it too easy to witch-hunt.
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that's great then — tell me more
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Just by continuing to support survivors and chip away at the stigma whilst also having fairly strong sentences for PROVEN lies
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I don't think somebody should go to prison just if the defendant is found not guilty, it should have to be a definite falsehood
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there's no definite — human memory = not precise, expert witnesses shown later to be wrong, eye-witness accounts = problematic
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this is why the death penalty for example is a bad idea... there is no precision
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