That is the result of racism, which included all kinds of accusations that white juries convicted on without any real evidence. That is the same thing as accusations and convictions of minorities falsely convicted of murder and other cdimes.
That has nothing to do with women’s claims being commonly dismissed before they ever get to a trial, which is what ‘believe women’ is talking about.
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You wanted an example of where the accusations of rape directly led to ruined lives, and I gave you one.
Sure, in the example I gave the motive behind the accusations was racism, but the accusation was still about rape. The original commenter was pointing out that any and all accusations must be met with suspicion in order for “innocent until proven guilty” to function.
What that doesn’t mean is that any and all accusations of rape should be dismissed because the accuser is a woman. There’s a difference here
Should the police believe someone when they claim they’ve been raped and should the police investigate? Yes.
Should the police, court of law, court of public opinion believe a rape accusation purely because the accuser is a woman? No.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They should believe it long enough to investigate! That is what the saying means.
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At this point I’m wondering if your National Reconnaissance Office mission patch profile pic is supposed to be ironic or not. It shouldn’t take an intelligence officer to discover literally the sentence before the one you quoted.
Bubbey@lemmy.world 4 days ago
An OSINT legend in the community
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I was confirming that it needed to at least reach the step prior. Sorry for not doing a full diagram with arrows and stuff to make that clear.