The saying means that rape victims should get due process instead of being ignored by the police they report the rape to and dismissed as asking for it by society in general.
The innocence project is awesome! The only reason that a lot of people who are exonerated are POC is because of the systemic racism in the judicial system and society as a whole.
The majority of false accusations and convictions for rape certainly trend along racial lines, just like false accusations and convictions for murder. That is a racial problem, which only exists because of the inherent racism in the judicial system that goes right along with the sexism that dismisses claims of rape when reported or when they have enough evidence to go to trial but the prosecutor declines because they know getting a jury to convict is hard when so many people blame women for being victims of rape.
Thank you for providing real examples of people whose lives were inconvenienced due to false accusations. It is important to keep in mind that false accusations are a tiny fraction of accusations, but most accusations are ignored and are never investigated or acted upon by being painted as false. That is what 'believe women' is about, not dismissing out of hand and instead actually looking into it.
There are multiple posts there already about the topic including the most popular one that was locked because the mods kept failing to understand what anyone was saying.
If you want to know what people think, check out the up to down vote ratio in the comments. Feel free to accuse .world of brigading like those mods or whatever other stupid excuse based on a lack of understanding how instance populations work.
I was banned because Unruffled is a petty jerk, so I won't be posting another thread about the same topic of how petty and toxic a small group of prolific mods of dbzer0 communities are. Pointing that out is clearly not allowed in yptb.
The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
The exaggerated and fictional accusations of rape are serious, like the parading through the streets nonsense.
Yes, there were a lot of false accounts of rape on October 7th that were obviously framed based on hateful stereotypes intended to dehumanize. There were also actual rapes that did happen. But to some people everything is black and white and all they care about is whoever is on their 'side'.
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.
Look, it isn't that I'm not sure that one or more instances exist or not, I don't accept the concept of 'instances' in the first place, much less the supposedly omniscient one that the majority of people tend to worship.
They are human constructs used to explain the parts of the internet they don't understand.
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