"Some in the crowd, which would grow to close to 50 people, arrived with beer"

[Tsiyu]

179. I never trashed you

, have not said one way or the other how you feel about rape except that you were telling others how THEY should feel about it.

What I said was that YOUR words - as you admit yourself - were shallow and not well thought out.

Surely you are intelligent and caring enough to know that rape victims have heard enough excuses, have heard enough "innocent until proven guilty even if there are videos," have heard "wait for the courts."

The outrage you hear is against those comments - not you as a person.

I'm glad you are able to understand why your comment were hurtful to others.

You claimed we shouldn't be condemning those young men based on sensationalist, unfactual stuff. And what people said was: We are condemning based on their own evidence they provided all of us. Then you admitted you didn't know these facts, so that is understandable, but it still points to someone who - without the facts - jumps to tell others how to feel or view criminals.

And I've had enough of well-meaning folks - who don't have all the facts - telling me what I must think and feel.

That's where the backlash came from.

Peace, and I am sure you are a fine person.

( I didn't like your WORDS. I don't even know anything about you, so I don't know if I like you or not )