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To: ansel12
If you didn't follow rocker Conor Oberst's ordeal earlier this year, it is a clear example of what I'm talking about, and this kind of thing is only getting worse. His accuser, who called herself a "superfan," made her accusation in the comments section of a website and it was all over the web in hours. There wasn't a shred of truth in it, but it wrecked this guy's life for MONTHS.

Here are some of the details in an article from Slate of all places:

In the emotionally charged conversation about rape, few topics are more fraught than that of false allegations. Consider some responses to the news that singer-songwriter Conor Oberst had been falsely accused of sexual assault. Last December a woman writing in the comments section of the website xoJane, going by the name Joanie Faircloth, claimed Oberst raped her when she was a teenager. The charge spread across the Internet; Oberst denied it and brought a libel suit against Faircloth when she refused to retract the story. In July she completely recanted, admitting that she had made it all up to get attention. Yet instead of showing sympathy for the ordeal of the musician—one known for being supportive of feminist issues—some chided him for taking legal action to defend himself against a false, career-damaging charge. In the Daily Dot, pop culture critic Chris Ostendorf decried the lawsuit, arguing that it could intimidate real victims of rape and that it promoted the idea of men as victims of false accusations—even though that’s exactly what Oberst was. After Oberst dropped the suit, Bustle’s Caroline Pate praised his decision and referred to the saga as “a roller-coaster for both parties”—treating the false accuser and the wrongly accused as morally equivalent—and called the revelation of Oberst’s innocence “crushingly disappointing.”

The rest of the article has a lot to say.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/09/false_rape_accusations_why_must_be_pretend_they_never_happen.html

58 posted on 12/18/2014 7:15:50 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: JennysCool

You decided to switch to this route to defend Cosby?

Cosby is not facing one or two young chicks, Cosby’s entire life of being a serial rapist is unfolding here.


59 posted on 12/18/2014 7:22:40 PM PST by ansel12
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To: JennysCool

Cosby has already settled on one rape/drugging accusation, one that brought forth 13 more women with concealed identities, willing to testify to his rape methods.

Do you think that Cosby lacked the wealth and power and bus load of legal sharks, to take the route of your rocker?


60 posted on 12/18/2014 7:26:00 PM PST by ansel12
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