| ▲ | Mizza 2 hours ago |
| Eric Schmidt also raped a woman forty years younger than him, the students were objecting to that as much as the AI. Maybe don't schedule public speaking events after being accused of rape if you don't want to get booed. |
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| ▲ | unfirehose 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "don't be evil" |
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| ▲ | sam_lowry_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | What about the presumption of innocence? The case is in open court now, AFAIU. | | |
| ▲ | kleiba2 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Can someone who downvoted parent's comment explain what's wrong with the presumption of innocence in their opinion? | | |
| ▲ | lostmsu 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | A lot of people enjoy the moonlight dancing on pitchforks. It's captivating! It shows strength! Presumption of innocence is meh. |
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| ▲ | cubefox an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You are equating accusation of rape with rape. I shouldn't have to point out there is a big difference. |
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| ▲ | gilrain an hour ago | parent [-] | | Until convictions of rape are justly meted out, you’ll have to stomach accusations taking justice’s place. Justice won’t just sleep. Blame wealth for making the corruption of the courts too damn obvious. Now they’re not taken seriously. | | |
| ▲ | logicchains an hour ago | parent [-] | | You could just as easily say blame wealth for the rape accusations; there's much more incentive to make fake rape accusations of rich men than of poor men. | | |
| ▲ | SamoyedFurFluff an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | There really isn’t that much incentive to accuse a much wealthier man of rape. Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat and he still gets a speaking gig, so. If you’re so confident it’s a solid way to get ahead, please go ahead and try it yourself. | | |
| ▲ | cubefox 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat and he still gets a speaking gig, so. "So"? The fact that someone is alleged of rape and doesn't lose their invited speech is hardly evidence of injustice. Allegations are not convictions nor proof of guilt. It seems you are against the presumption of innocence. This presumption is itself a cornerstone of justice, not the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence |
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| ▲ | sheikhnbake an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's also a higher chance that wealthy perpetrators of sexual violence are under-represented in data. There's no denying the relationship between the 'justice' system and the wealthy. Case in point: Judge Persky in the Brock Turner trial. |
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| ▲ | weregiraffe an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is "accused of rape" and "raped" the same in your mind? |
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| ▲ | Mizza an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's up to you to choose to who to believe about what happened on the yacht in the gulf of Mexico, the seventy year old billionaire cheating on his wife, or the thirty year old woman who accused him of forcible rape. There was some form of financial settlement, but it's still in private arbitration. The public documents said: “He followed me into a shower, slammed me against the wall, and forcibly raped me. I begged him to stop and cried out that he was hurting me, but he ignored my pleas. The next morning, Schmidt attempted to convince me that I enjoyed the assault.” The point is that student activists handed out flyers about this in advance, so the crowd was aware. | | |
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