Former Naughty Dog Employee Says He Was Sexually Harassed

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SpokenTruth said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

Poor guy. He should come out as transgender then people might believe him.

A (white?) mans word means little these days. Dark times .

If this was an attempt at humor, it failed spectacularly.
If this was a display of your mentality, it failed spectacularly.

Aeolus451 said:

There's alot of cases where it's false and the person made the accusation for money or to get attention of some sort. I'm always skeptical of this stuff by default. What's weird in this situation is that he was "fired immediately after making the accusation" and was given just 20k as hush money by sony. 

The ratio of false claim to real/unreported claims is staggering in favor of the latter.  Skepticism should never be your default.  It's why so many go unreported.  Why bother when people aren't going to believe you anyway?

A rate between 2% and 10%, depending on the study, of demonstrably false claims should not be your default position.  Since 1989, only 52 people have been exonerated from prison due to a false accusation.

 

"A rate between 2% and 10%, depending on the study, of demonstrably false claims should not be your default position"

 

so between 98% and 90% of victims don't report their assaults? so how do we know about these cases if they are unreported? 

 

edit - i misread your post, but regardless there needs to be some objective standard for determining whether a crime has occured and the only possible standard we have to go by is evidence

"Skepticism should never be your default"

 

skepticism and the need to validate claims is at the core of the justice system and the reason its like that is not only to protect people but to ensure that there is some degree of objectivity

if there is no objectivity then what stops you from one day falling prey to someone making false claims against you?

 

i don't think many of you understand the consequences of the causes you advocate for