Sensitive question re: Justin Fairfax accusation

[EffieBlack]

38. To answer your question - because the circumstances are completely different

If a right wing website had published a screenshot of a Facebook post alleging that a public official, unidentified by name but whose identity was obvious, had, in the past, mocked black people and hung out with people who dressed up in Klan outfits - and we found out that that person had taken that story to the Washington Post, which investigated it but declined to publish it because they could find now support for the story, it would make sense for people to say that, without more evidence, the public official should not be accused of any wrongdoing based solely on the allegation.

And I'm sure people would insist that, if only there was a photograph or other proof. And then a photo emerged of the public official named in the post wearing blackface, standing next to someone wearing a Klan outfit and that official admitted that was him in the photograph and that he had worn blackface on other occasions, anyone would be hard-pressed to continue claiming that the allegation was without merit or that the photograph proved nothing.

On the other hand, the allegation against Justin Fairfax is just that - an allegation and not even much of that at this point. The story has been investigated and found to be lacking and the woman who allegedly made the allegation has refused to come forward and say more. We have no corroboration, no details, no nothing.

Just as a quasi-anonymous allegation that Northam had done something wrong would not have been taken seriously if that's where it ended, the allegation against Fairfax is meaningless unless and until additional evidence comes forth.

Northam ADMITTED doing exactly what he has been accused of and there's a pictures to prove it. Fairfax vehemently denies doing what he is accused of and there is no evidence, so far, that he has ever behaved that way with any other woman in his life.