Post #1331401

All of that is well trodden ground. But we are still left with the big problem of giving carte blanche to accusations, like we've been through with the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism-- when you give the power to destroy someone's reputation with an accusation alone, and the accusation is left there doing damage and is never followed up on, what kind of justice can you really have? Because 999 sexual assault accusations can be true and there can still be that one where you just have a crazy evil person taking advantage of that carte blanche. Remember the lady who said that Biden tried to rape her in the hallway of Congress? And then she went on to write blog essays about how sexy she found Vladimir Putin? You still have people saying that Biden should be held to account for that ridiculous bullshit, some simply because they're terrified to be seen as refusing to believe women "no matter what" the circumstances. And I'm not suggesting anything like a return to the days of putting victims on trial, but accusations need to be able to sustain at least more weight than tissue paper before we casually destroy lives just so we can say we believed women.