I Have No Words... The Rape Threads Meet The Authoritarian Threads...

[BainsBane]

61. Which question is it now?

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Your first question, which I already answered, or what should happen if he is falsely accused?
Your lack of clarity and shifting goal posts are not my responsibility.

If he is acquitted then he goes free. What he does after that is his responsibility. I hope you know an acquittal is not evidence of a false allegation. MRA adherents insist it is, but rational people do not. If the allegations are fabricated, the women should be prosecuted, as should be done in all cases of false rape allegations. Approximately 4% of rape allegations are false. That means there is a 96% probability the women are not lying. Do you want to hang a decision to support Assange's refuge from prosecution on that 4%? Many have accused the women of lying, just as many accused the girls of Steubenville of lying, just as has been done repeatedly in recent cases of young high school girls who were gang raped, shamed and bullied on social media and subsequently killed themselves.

The reason I said it isn't relevant to the current discussion is because in terms of DU, what matters is what people value: Do they value human rights for all? Or do they think some too important to face prosecution for sexual assault? Do they willy-nilly accuse victims of lying because they want to justify what is a morally unconscionable position of supporting an accused assailant's refuge from prosecution?

It is not whether I am proved wrong. I do not claim to know anything more than the court record shows. What I have said is that he should face charges like anyone else accused of sexual assault. The only question is who you and other DUers are: Do you believe in human rights for women and rape victims, or do you think men like Julian Assange should be exempt from prosecution because he is too important?