RE: Aziz Ansari Doesn't Pick Up On "Non-Verbal Cues" and Gets Treated Like A Rapist
January 18, 2018 at 2:41 pm
(January 18, 2018 at 12:54 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(January 18, 2018 at 8:58 am)Cyberman Wrote: I can't add any more to what I've already said about how monumentally fucked up that is.
I suppose it is, if the truth does doesn't matter to you.
No, please don't lay that on me. What you're proposing is exactly what I've warned against throughout; trial by journalism.
Who gets to decide what the truth is? The journo? The editor? The person who sold the story instead of reporting it to the authorities? What about the accused? What if that was you? Wouldn't you want your hour in court to put your side of the events?
This stuff isn't merely a drama, for salacious public entertainment or outrage. People, actual real people, can get hurt by it. And it's too late to make amends in the event that a mistake is shown to have happened, because the damage is done.
Actually, this kind of thing might even prevent the case going to trial at all, if the public is so whipped up into a froth that finding an unbiased jury becomes impossible. And let's say this guy managed to overturn the accusations. I can see the comments here: "he only got off - so to speak - because of who is / because he's a man / because he's got money" etc etc.
Bottom line is, I'm all for the truth, it matters a great deal. But the truth is not the province of one person, nor whomever shouts the loudest.
This is why I don't do gossip.
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