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      4 年前

      Maybe this is a bad take (and it's only loosely related) but I think the recent trend of people trying to "cancel" lgbt figures on really shaky or fabricated evidence really pokes a hole in the "believe all allegations" thing. I know there's kind of a divide between people who take that to mean "take all allegations seriously" and people who take it to mean "guilty until proven innocent," so I'm talking about the second one.

      It's certainly the case that people who come out with sexual assault/harassment allegations face overwhelming hate and scorn, and it follows that it's very unlikely that a given accusation was "made up," but then you can look at James Charles, Alex Morse, Contrapoints (slightly different situation) as an example of a case with a totally different societal standard. Instead of being conditioned to hate and silence victim, society is conditioned to side against the LGBT person, and it turns into the right-wing fantasy where an accusation actually does have the power to ruin someone at the drop of a hat.