Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned by NY appeals court

disguy_ovahea, 1 month ago

So the lesson here is be such a piece of shit that you single-phallically spawn a movement, then use a “target of a movement” defense to claim emotional bias. Our courts are completely devoid of justice.

SJ0, 1 month ago

To play devil’s advocate here, Lynch mobs arent justice.

The satanic panic in the 1980s and early 1990s was a movement where kids claimed daycare workers were committing atrocities. It led to something like 170 people getting charged with crimes and some of the accused committed suicide. Once the stories hit scrutiny the problems became clear – the kids said people were killed and eaten who were still alive. They talked about secret tunnels that didn’t exist. They talked about secret ultrasonic stealth planes that could land in a neighborhood could land secretly in a neighborhood in the northwest so kids could be kidnapped and sent to Mexico, then be flown back before their parents returned. It was a movement, but it was a false movement.

Historical Lynch mobs are a other example. Black men would be targeted by a mob for having the audacity of touching a pristine white girl (who nonetheless often fully consented and there was nothing illegal going on), and the mob would go string the guy up by the neck. It was a movement too, happened a lot, but it was just the personification of racism, and not justified by principles of justice.

A lot of people mistake moral indignation for righteousness and as a result seem to think that if a lynch mob shows up at your door you automatically deserve its full wrath. Really goes to show humans never change, even if we think we do.

SkyezOpen, 1 month ago

Calling what happened to weinstein a lynch mob is disingenuous as fuck. It was an open secret he was a sex pest. Courtney love, when asked for advice for aspiring actresses, said “if Harvey weinstein invites you to a private party in the four seasons don’t go” in fucking 2005.

If you’re saying we should examine the credibility of the accusations, we already did that in court. This wasn’t some random arrest due to accusations, the motherfucker stood trial and, spoiler alert, went to jail.