True or False: Every sexual assault accusation must be believed

what is a better way of phrasing this question? Many posters here have argued, on various threads, a position similar to this one: 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long. Is this different from the poll title? I am not trying to make a bad faith argument. I genuinely want to understand the ethical grounding of this position.

shakey needs a time out for this tbr

thx rob

are all tv chefs totally obnoxious twats?

this thread has the potential to destroy ilx to be honest. i propose locking it.

― treeship., Wednesday, 8 April 2020 16:19 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i propose we go ahead with it tbh

it seems reasonable to give people the benefit of the doubt and conclude they mean "all accusations should be taken seriously" sometimes supplemented by "making a false accusation is rarely beneficial to the accuser," both positions that exist to push back against millennia of entrenched, structural opposition

like, all this makes sense to me. what I can't figure out is what's supposed to happen *after* you've taken an accusation seriously and some people determine the accusation is credible and others don't. because that seems to be where a lot of knives come out.

I see everybody would rather rush to conclusions about me, which is too bad, cuz I really think there are interesting issues here that are worth untangling but I guess I poisoned the well with bad phrasing or something. sorry.

I feel like these positions often are discussed in stark binary terms, both here and elsewhere, just thought we could hive off this discussion instead of having it routinely crop up in other threads.

yeah this should definitely end that particular phenomenon

I'm sorry, but this thread is a terrible idea.