My point is not really about the case between these two people, but more that the instant legitimization of accusation due to a responsibility to avoid victim blaming. This can be a double edged sword, as someone who is wrongly accused has no standing, because simply defending oneself against accusations makes them…

They were Harry Potter movies, Uwe Boll could have directed them and they would have made a fortune

That’d make sense for a younger Grindelwald, but this is taking place when he’s a known dark wizard, right? A theme of the books seemed to be that evil shows itself, and Voldemort also dropped the Tom Riddle charm when it stopped serving his purposes.

The Yates HP movies are WAY better than the Chris Columbus films. And, no, you don’t want Uwe Boll touching the HP franchise. At all.

First, no one is presuming guilt based on gender.

I’m a racist and a nazi.

That is precisely the reasoning used to claim men are necessarily guilty in these cases. Men are usually guilty in these types of cases so it is, apparently, safe to presume that this man must be too. That is deeply flawed reasoning. We are all deserving of the presumption of innocence... regardless of our genitalia…

I didn’t imply that it was. I was making an explicit claim about the underlying reasoning used in both cases.

To illustrate a little further... do you think it matters that black people in some communities are more likely to commit crimes? Does that inform your decision regarding their guilt when they are accused of a…

I’m suggesting neither of those things. I’m making an explicit claim about the underlying reasoning propped up as an excuse in both cases.

Let me illustrated further... you’re explicitly claiming that statistics matter (women don’t usually lie about being victimized by men, a true statement)... so you would also say,…

So no, no one is guilty until proven innocent, but statistically when a woman says she was abused by a man your best bet is to believe her. So I’m going to believe her, and express my belief by not participating in whatever projects Depp and Yates create, and encouraging other people to do the same.

Whatever makes you feel better. That is what really matters, right?

Just so long as you realize that your rationalization is the same one used by the white men and women that, not so long ago, rallied to hang black men on false accusations of rape.

Remember: being offended and outraged is the new badge of being a “good person” these days. If you aren’t upset on someone’s behalf, you aren’t a good person. Umbrage is the new empathy.

Is the objection here that Depp continues to get work as an actor or that he gets work at all? Like, if Depp decided to become a salesperson at Macy’s, would we demand that Macy’s explain itself? Or if he opened a hedge fund? Or became a public school teacher? Or a trash collector?

He’s a wizard, you dumbshit.

So... we’re just throwing that whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing right out of the window whenever the claim or charge is abuse of some form, huh?

I have a couple of innocent male family members we can start with whose vindictive exes made similar claims and since a claim is now apparently all we need to…

I live in a country where you first have to prove someone is guilty. No reason to put someone’s career in the crapper until proof has been given. And even then, let him do his time. It’s for a judge and jury to punish him.

That’ll sure show them!

Wait... are people no longer innocent until proven otherwise, now? Yates is making a rather simple statistical claim about the veracity of multiple claims of wrong doing as weighed against a single claim of wrong doing. The presumption of innocence necessarily implies some level of skepticism regarding claims made on…

So, let me get this straight, Depp and Heard settled their divorce and each have moved on, but a bunch of people who have absolutely nothing to do with the situation and who the situation has no personal effect on do not feel sated, and as such the issue is not resolved until some form of public mob shaming is done to…