Tara Reade's public incident report does not mention Joe Biden by name.

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164. I think that like Norma McCorvey, there are those who have

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need for validation, and will gravitate to those who give them that validation, and will do what they can to support the efforts to work against those that they believe took away validation they were promised. I think that they convince themselves that a perceived betrayal took other forms.

As was discussed in the case of Christine Blasey-Ford, there are indeed metrics that support the credibility of witness testimony of victims of trauma. Blasey-Ford met those criteria as a credible witness for that incident. Reade, under increasing scrutiny, doesn't.

Her complete reversals on political views in the past year indicate something to me, and her lack of naming the subject of her complaint, when she knows him, indicates to me that she is trying to protect herself from being charged for making a false accusations, which doesn't add to her credibility. The NYT investigation brought up some things that support that opinion.

Her accusations are being taken seriously, but it appears your vision of "being taken seriously" is to not question her in any way, not to lay out the facts, or not try to corroborate her story. Yes, I know that there are women who are pressed into recanting their testimony about a rape, and it later turns out to be true. And yes, this is a case of a woman accusing a powerful man.

I also believe that the vast majority of women who have regrets about stupid or ill-advised decisions they made do not simply decide later that it was assault.

I saw right here on DU many who cheered on Assange called the rape allegations against false because he embarassed powerful people.

I will not refuse to vote for Biden due to Reade's accusations, because I don't think that she is credible. If I thought they were credibile, I would not vote for Biden. This does not mean that I don't believe women, or understand that there is an inherent bias against believing women who accuse powerful men. It is possible to do both.

In the same way - I can believe that OJ Simpson killed his wife, and Bill Cosby raped multiple women and at the same time know that the justice system is inherently racist and biased against black men.

I also don't think that you are approaching this objectively, reading the posts that you have made. Please just own that.