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I don't think Bill Cosby ever convinced anyone to pull their sagging pants up and besides, he might be a rapist.

• anon4 12y ago
  John Oliver also might be a rapist, or maybe a murderer, or both. The allegations against Cosby didn't come out until much later in his career, compared to Oliver today. Also, even if he hasn't raped anyone yet, that doesn't mean he doesn't want to and that he won't do it in the future, which would retroactively make him a rapist -- once you've committed a rape, it applies to everything you've done in the past and everything you'll do in the future. What I'm saying is, if you want to discount everything Cosby has done based on a rape allegation, you ought to keep in mind, that the potential for it exists for Oliver too. The only conclusion that springs to mind, if you discount the possibility of Oliver being a rapist, is that you're subconsciously racist. Even if you're unaware of it, you're thinking something like "Oliver is a nice white man, so he'll never rape anyone, but that nigger definitely drugged and raped those women".
  • mg1982 12y ago
    Thread: New Mexico outlaws civil asset forfeiture Comment: "Oliver is a nice white man, so he'll never rape anyone, but that nigger definitely drugged and raped those women" Me: Wow - that degenerated quickly. Also, if I saw that quote in isolation it would take me about a million years to guess the thread it came from.
• venomsnake 12y ago
  It was needed one comic to not shut up about Cosby being rapist for the whole issue to cause his downfall. That is why it is the Cosby effect. The same as Streisand effect is named after Barbara.
  • NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
    Do you have any evidence that he's a rapist? I know he hasn't been convicted, so I would hope you at least have something more than an unfounded accusation.
    • pessimizer 12y ago
      There's been an update since the joke: Over a dozen women have openly accused Bill Cosby of being a rapist. I know it has been widely reported, so I would hope that you aren't reducing the statements of those women to "an unfounded accusation."
      • venomsnake 12y ago
        It is a classical case of he said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said ... don't we hate when it happens like that.
      • NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
        Actually, that's the technical definition of "unfounded accusation". I don't have to reduce, that's what it is.
    • glibgil 12y ago
      Sorry, I only have dozens of unfounded accusations that say he might be a rapist. Do I need something more substantial to say that he might be?
    • venomsnake 12y ago
      20+ women, all telling eerily similar stories spanning across 4 decades ... it is enough to extinguish reasonable doubt for me.
      • NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
        It's sex abuse hysteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria The women aren't deliberately lying, but they're not telling the truth either. They've talked themselves into believing these things, forming false memories. The more who come forward, the more likely even more will come forward who have had interactions with the man in the past, since when the women tell their stories to the press they're creating an environment where more false memory formation is encouraged (at least until the supply of women who were acquaintences is exhausted). I mean, since we now "know" Cosby is a rapist, every female who ever met him or spent time with him starts wondering if they were drugged ("I might not even remember if I were rufied!"). So poorly remembered details from 40 years ago are re-analyzed, in paranoid fashion, until they're quite sure it was a thousand times creepier than it seemed back then. Every time they go over it in their heads, details mutate slightly. New embellishments occur. Stuff other accusers said in interviews gets conflated with stuff they think they remember...
  • glibgil 12y ago
    Then a better name would be the Hannibal Buress effect.