What has DU come to we have numerous posts excusing alleged sexual misconduct

[moriah]

111. It's called a polite denial. He "doesn't remember it the same way", but...

... was being very careful to make sure HIS response was not going to fall into any of the other excuses people caught make.

He "doesn't remember it the same way", but all victims should be heard.

He "doesn't remember it the same way", but that doesn't mean people shouldn't take every allegation seriously, even against themselves, and said he needed to re-evaluate whether other things he admitted doing were funny or appropriate.

He "doesn't remember it the same way", but will happily submit to having his behavior making him look like an immature juvenile asshat investigated.

And it was all said so that, even if there's no investigation into the motivations behind coming forward with this photo now, the accusation presents no impediment to having the asshat accused of forcing immature juveniles to submit to *him* investigated.