I saw numerous people going on about how Tamir Rice looked like an adult. A 12 year old boy!!

That and the black kids they talk about like this are dead! They didn’t murder anyone! Yet still, whiteness gets a pass. smfh

I’m sorry! :( I relate to that quite well.

Yeah because we should all just turn the channel when a show is endangering an already vulnerable group right? Because we don’t need to give a shit about them right? It occurs to me you could stop reading here if empathetic comments offend you so deeply.

There’s never any nuance, and it’s infuriating! Some people choose and enjoy sex work, which shouldn’t be illegal. Some people are coerced or seriously forced into it. That should be stopped! But we refuse to address the agency of people who choose, and we refuse to address the underlying issues that lead to coercion.…

It’s gets much easier when you have a living victim. People have found and convicted Nazi war criminals more years than that after the fact. People tend to remember who attacked them.

Sure. I don’t disagree with that. I was just pointing out why they might be concerned enough to hire security before anything else.

Why would proof of who murdered someone be more “preserved” than proof someone raped? Both involve DNA, timelines, witnesses, etc. And murder victims can’t speak for themselves. Survivors of rape can. It’s not like they “forget” which person they know raped them. (Rapists usually target people they know.)

I see what you’re saying, but she hasn’t really admitted the error to my mind. She has said terrible things about many, many rape victims, and not just Cosby’s victims. She has much to take responsibility for. I personally doubt she’ll do that.

Of course. It would be so awful to wonder how you couldn’t have known! But she has also said terrible things about many other rape victims, outside any friendship she may have had with Cosby. That woman’s got some serious rape apologist shit to atone for.

It’s always the same patronizing crap from these people. They claim they’re “saving” people from “themselves” while degrading them, criminalizing them, and whittling away at their agency every chance they get.

There’s nothing wrong with consensual sex work. Take your terrified prudishness elsewhere.

Depends. Are they afraid of the vandalism more than getting murdered by racists?

This is exactly what’s happening, and the refusal to address it emboldens violent fascists.

This! Michael Brown was a “thug” something something “strong-armed robbery.” Yet I’ve seen Roof described as a kid more times than I can count. Fucking outrageous.

Yeah I love that phrase. Exactly how is anyone being tried in the court of public opinion? Are there legal penalties? Can the public put you in jail? Make you pay money? Force you to wear a tracking bracelet? Unless a mob is incited to show up with pitchforks, there is no “court” of public opinion.

Murder has no statute of limitations. What’s the difference?

What about Cosby? What about all the other rape victims she’s undercut on her media platform?

It’s a bummer, but I would hope they were far more concerned with the fact that their coworker is a serial rapist who has horrifically violated countless victims. Their lives will never be the same.

She has repeatedly indicated rape victims were either liars, or responsible for their rape. She’s done this from a huge media platform most victims will never have access to. If she’s fucked up her OWN life, I wouldn’t be angry.