Karen Monahan threatens to release more info about Keith Ellison,

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105. A lot of you throwing the "BS" flag obviously don't have any experience with domestic violence

Things like questioning why a victim wouldn’t want a video all over the media to relive the event over and over, questioning why they are reluctant to come foward, questioning why they don’t press charges.

Welcome to the world of domestic violence. Where it’s extremely hard for most victims to even get up the wherewithal to get out of the relationship, much less actually go public with what happened or press charges.

75% of physical assaults by a spouse or significant other go unreported in the USA. So when someone says it happened and you question the legitimacy because there want a criminal charge or police report you are statistically on the wrong side of what’s more likely.

And all that difficulty for a victim in reporting- that’s hard enough when it’s Joe Slob that nobody knows who is the abuser. Now make the abuser a well known and powerful person in your community and coming foward just got a ton harder.

All you people calling “BS” or claiming she’s a liar, just because you don’t like the circumstances, shame on you. It’s one thing to say you withhold judgement and want more evidence. But to outright call her a liar just because you don’t like the implications just feeds into the entire stigma we have around domestic violence in this county where people dismiss claims from victims because the acuused was a “nice guy” or “does great things in the community” or “employs a lot of people and we don’t want to hurt all them”.

We should take every person who comes foward with claims of being abused just as seriously. No matter if all the parties involved are poor regular citizens, rich and powerful, politicians we like or politicians we hate.

Is what’s been put forth now enough for me to say it happened or didn’t? No. And anyone claiming to be sure it’s fact or fiction now is making judgements not on evidence but based on what they hope to be true.

But there are bigger issues at play here than just this one race and one politician. The actions of so many here in calling her a liar are disgusting in that they just serve to reinforce the stigma against DV victims speaking up and serve to perpetuate the old standard that a victim who speaks up better do so in a way that brings incontrovertible evidence that’s exactky what people want or else they are not to be beloved by default. And that just serves to reinforce the lesson you are telling every other person suffering as a victim of domestic violence right now- that you shouldn’t bother speaking up because you will just be called a liar and attacked as a person if you do.

Because of how so many on the left are reacting to this many more victims of domestic violence who see it will suffer in silence so much longer because of the message they are given by the reactions, including of many people on here. And that’s shameful.

You don’t have to accept her claims as gospel truth at this point. And you shouldn’t. But you should treat her claims as worthy of considering as potentially valid and ask for further investigation instead of just calling her a liar because you don’t like how she’s handled it or she hasn’t produced evidence of potentially very traumatic experiences in her life for the whole world to splash on TV 24/7 and live on the internet as the first search results under her name the rest of her life.