• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    More proof that the famous and wealthy live by a different standard. No matter how good they seem.

    You don’t need to be famous or wealthy to overlook or cover up the crimes of someone you know. It happens every day among people of every socioeconomic status, between friends and within families and businesses. In this case he isn’t even trying to cover for him, just wrote a letter supporting him at his trial based on what he knows of the guy. I don’t think it was in good taste, but also don’t think it’s worth shunning Ashton Kutcher over

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        1 year ago

        Nice friend you are.

        You understand that false allegations happen all the time? This wasn’t, obviously, because he got convicted. But if you drop your friends on an arrest warrant, I wouldn’t want to be your friend.

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          1 year ago

          That’s not what they said. They didn’t say they discovered their hypothetical friend was a rapist because of the arrest warrant.

          It could be as simple as another friend telling them she was raped.

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            1 year ago

            No, that person said that IF they found out their friend was a rapist because of an arrest.

            An arrest is upon suspicion, and in rape cases, many times an allegation. That doesn’t mean the person is guilty, that is not how our justice system works. False rape allegations unfortunately hace happened all too often and mostly end up in the victims life being utterly destroyed. The victim here not being the lying rape claimer, but the person who reiceived the false allegation.

            It’s also a really shitty situation for people around. Imagine being a mother and your son gets a rape allegation.

            The problem is that rape is very hard to prove. If it happenend a few hours ago, no condom, okay then you have some evidence. But was it rape or consensual sex? If it happened years ago it becomes even harder to prove and a lot of times it’s a he said-she said game and unless there is more actual concrete evidence, a judge isn’t going to send a person to jail on a single allegation.

            In this case ther were multiple independent testimonies, that helps

            But when your friend is accused of rape thrn I guess it up to you, who do you believe? O hoor my friends would know me and trust and believe me.

            Then again, maybe that is what Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher did. Trust and believe their friend, and now they “Support” a rapist