You’re the one who’s devolved into calling me “moron” and “idiot” instead of making cogent points, so, yeah, keep telling yourself that.

Haha oh c’mon now, you know you’re trolling and it’s not name calling.

You’re right, it’s just that the vast, vast, vast majority of them as they currently exist are illegal.

Yeah, I have, but since I wasn’t speaking with you I can assure you that it’s not relevant to your life. Move along, troll.

I am actually the one who used the term victim before you engaged me, so pretty sure that my intent in using it in the legal sense is what’s important.

I meant afford in the broader sense of being able to tolerate leaving the industry or having non-industry work on their resume or having other options.

Actually, if you’ll look at the comment at the top of this thread, you’ll note that legalities are exactly what’s being discussed.

No, people who can afford to fight against it should. I never said otherwise. But some people aren’t in a position to do that, and that doesn’t somehow mean they’re partially to blame for accepting such positions even if they know they’re illegal.

According to Merriam-Webster a victim is someone who has been injured. Having unpaid internships is illegal. Even if you volunteer for it, you’re still being denied wages you’re owed. Legally speaking, you have suffered a cognizable financial injury for which you’re entitled to recover. You are therefore…

I know what we’re talking about and know it doesn’t apply to governmental entities, I’m pointing out that even for lawyers there is enough oversupply of workers that employers can successfully get people to work for free.

How do you figure?

You’re victim blaming.

As impressive as your anecdotal evidence is, lots of people have to make a choice between leaving the industry they want to be in and taking an unpaid internship. Not everyone has a multitude of job options.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that unpaid interns put up with them because they’re still viewed as needed to get ahead so if you can afford to do it, why not? It DOES surprise me that more former unpaid interns who didn’t get a job out of their unpaid internship don’t bring collective actions seeking back pay and…

Uhh don’t know if you read the Baltimore PD DOJ report, but police often don’t investigate sexual assaults or do only minor investigation. Rape kits go completely untested, DNA samples aren’t collected, witnesses aren’t interviewed, and so on, even when they have important admissions from suspects.

The article is referring to the reporting process. The perps were not prosecuted just on my say so because, instead of disbelieving me immediately because they were biased in favor of innocence, the police believed me enough to seek out evidence in order to build a case against the alleged perps.

Police officers don’t have any obligation to be biased toward assuming innocence, and in non-sexual assault cases generally don’t have such a bias. When I was mugged literally no one at the police station expressed any doubts whatsoever about my story or suggested I could’ve somehow indicated to the men nearby that I…

At the time it came from a place that was more like emotional denial and obsessive logical thinking. Because really, how weird is it to tell your rapist coworker that it hurt your feelings that he forgot that he committed a violent felony against you? I think about it and laugh and then get really mad.

Ayyyup. It actually gets even crazier.

My rapist did! Only after I called him up the next day and explained it was rape to continue holding me down and fucking me while I repeatedly struggled to push him off and told him not to because it hurt, but then he was like “yeah, it was rape. I’m really sorry I raped you!”