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> Colleges, businesses, and online communities almost always simply believe the victim, and even if a trial should occur and the accused is vindicated, the accu
by pmastela 8y ago
> Colleges, businesses, and online communities almost always simply believe the victim, and even if a trial should occur and the accused is vindicated, the accused has already been fired, expelled, or crucified by public opinion.
Colleges don't almost always simply believe the victim. It's quite the opposite: “Alarmingly, many universities are compounding this trauma by failing to support survivors and, in some cases, actively seeking to silence them.” [1]
Businesses don't almost always simply believe the victim. In fact, "often employees fear that human resources will help the company lash out at the accuser rather than punish the accused." [2]
Online communities don't almost always simply believe the victim. Take Twitter for example and how a chunk of that online community turned against Christine Blasey Ford. [3]
In the last case involving the accuser and the accused, the accuser had to move several times, hired her own private security detail, and continued to receive death threats [4], all the while the accused got the promotion of a lifetime. Hardly the case of — as you put it — "the accused is vindicated, the accused has already been fired, expelled, or crucified by public opinion."
I know that what you said is personal opinion, but as far as the data supporting that opinion, I just didn't find it.
1: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/27/universities-actively-covering-up-sexual-assault-and-harassment-report-says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/27/unive...
2: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/business/sexual-harassment-human-resources.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/business/sexual-harassmen...
3: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/conservative-reaction-christine-blasey-fords-testimony-kavanaugh.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/conservative-rea...
4: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407589/kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford-continues-receiving-threats-lawyers-say https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407589/kavanaugh-accuser-c...
- wombatpm 8y agoHuman Resources does not exist to protect the employees. They exist to protect the company from employees. So victims are right to fear HR. In a way it is like Game of Thrones. If you take something to HR, you better win. And sometimes both of you lose.