IMMIGRATION thread

[Montmorency]

Does it matter? Whether through the machinations of a vindictive accusor, the digging of a sensationalist press or the failure in legal confidentiality the very knowledge that one is accused of rape is enough to lose a person thier job in western society.

So? Aside from the fact that such cases are vanishingly rare outside the university or celebrity world, what's the difference from me marching into your workplace and loudly accusing you of assaulting me and stealing my bike? If you're of very little value to your employer, you might be let off with few questions or followup. Rise a little higher up the ladder, and I would be ignored or even banned from the premises. You make too much of a trivial hypothetical.

That those accused will be ostracised or punished by most who hears of it, regardless of evidence presented, puts a great hole in the idea that our society is one "trivializes, rationalizes, or even condones rape and other acts of sexual violence" which is the core of the idea that is rape culture.

Not true at all; in very public cases, the accused routinely receive an extraordinary outpouring of public support. Friends, family, and industry colleagues (if the accused is a member of some profession or civil service) lock arms in their defense. You seem to have this strange paradox underlying your reasoning, that the fact feminists make an issue of rape means that society takes rape very seriously or even overreacts to it, which means that feminists have no cause to make an issue of rape. In other words, you use feminism to minimize or rule out the existence of the things feminism opposes.

I take back "nearly" in nearly a complete non sequitur. I have no goddamn idea how any of that relates to my post.

I'm afraid I can't help you then. Come back to it later if you like.