‘Rape Culture’ Is A MYTH | Change My Mind

[Azuren]

Even if there was a rape culture it'd be infinitesimally small, and limited to mostly asshole judges like the one that didn't give Brock Turner even a year in jail.

What the girl in the beginning is saying is rape culture is actually the presumption of innocence. She likely didn't have any evidence to present against her attacker, so the school didn't and shouldn't do anything. You can't just accuse someone of a crime only matched by murder in severity and expect people to believe you with no evidence.

People in America loath rapists, the difference in how people go about it is the difference between a reaction and a desire for truth. One group assumes guilt and wants the punishment to come immediately. The other group offers the presumption of innocence while an investigation is conducted, and will usually err on what the investigation finds.

In the case of Ford (since Crowder's video brought it up), it was a 35+ year old case with no evidence, no corroboration by those she claimed were at the party, and no specifics about the party (including how she got there or left, where it was, what day it was, etc). She took a polygraph, but 1) she's a psychiatrist, pretty sure she knows how to beat it; and 2) she was outted by an ex for having helped a friend pass a polygraph in the past (rendering some of her testimony as potential perjury). No further investigation was taken because there just isn't anything to investigate, and it was clear from how long Feinstein sat on the accusation that the intent was to present it in the eleventh hour to push the confirmation beyond the midterms.

It sucks that Ford didn't get a real trial since considering it was a party with drinking she was likely to have been assaulted by somebody, but misidentified them (misidentification makes up roughly 70% of exonerations). She'll never know now because she waited over three decades, and now #metoo is taken less seriously because Feinstein clearly used it as a political cudgel.

Last edited by Azuren - on 15 October 2018