“The US Coast Guard covered up ...”
Headline says “dismissed”, first sentence says “covered up”. One is not necessarily the same as the other. Cases can be dismissed for all sorts of legitimate reasons like, the investigators found evidence contradicting the accusation, the accuser recanted, or there was not sufficient evidence found to pursue the accusation. None of those kinds of reasons would constitute a “cover up”.
Right-
It’s a reciprocal argument.
~90% (and that BTW used to be a real statistic years past) of all EEO complaints are dismissed because they are found to be BULLSHIT right up front.
The system is more abused, than legitimately used. Of course the folks who were slandering others have no real recourse and the accuser has no skin in the game (no legal costs) nor concern of repercussions either legal or administrative. You can lie and accuse folks and nothing will happen to you, even if found out (but that’s not the story here).
The reciprocal argument of how the system is abused by minorities and women, is to claim that many cases are “dismissed.”
You can make a reciprocal argument with almost anything:
Taking the fight to the enemy in Iraq 2003 is turned into: there was no AQ in Iraq until we invaded.
Blacks committing more violent crimes and with higher rates of incarceration is turned into: disproportionate numbers of blacks in prison is because our justice system is racist.
You can take almost all argument and flip it around.