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In reply to the discussion: Test links Winston's (Heisman trophy winner) DNA to accuser [View all]BainsBane
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and the DNA test? Even the guy defending the guy claims she the woman was too drunk to know if she had consented, which means RAPE. If someone takes a drunk woman in a restroom and repeatedly penetrates her, it's rape because she's too drunk to consent. I know someone here thinks the absence of screaming means a woman consents, but that is not the law. Consent must be freely given. The football player got off because he's important, makes money for the university and is male, whereas the woman was ignored, her case left uninvestigated and she was shamed because she was a lowly woman, unequal before the law and deprived of basic human rights.
So fuck him and ever last rapist on the planet. May they rot in the hell they so richly deserve.
I'm not a court of law and I can say any thing I want to. I know enough about this case to know what he did and that he will do it again.
Since we're talking about innocence, I'm sure I'll be hearing you defend George W Bush and Dick Cheney against allegations they are war criminals since they have not been convicted in a court of law. Or does this special presumption of innocence that encumbers my right to speech only an issue for the rape of mere women?
If there could once be a case of rape without people going on endlessly about how all these rapists are innocent, it would be a miracle. If just once some of you would start to consider the human rights of the victims without constantly fretting about a rapist, it would be amazing.
It is also notable that this hue and cry about innocence ONLY comes up in rape cases. Most people believe Zimmerman is guilty and would imprison Bush and Cheney in a heartbeat. But when it comes to crimes against women, suddenly the victims mean nothing and the hand wringing is all about some football player whose live is just ruined by winning a Heisman trophy and becoming a wealthy pro football player.
Generations of football players in Steubenville weren't charged either, and their defenders said exactly what is being argued here.