If you don't want to believe the allegations against Cosby as they haven't been proved, I can certainly understand that. He is innocent until proven guilty; that's how our criminal justice system works. But I'd like to talk about this claim a little bit, because it's not true. People do awful things and their families never find out, or never want to find out, or can't face them.piscian said:This is not to say he didn't do anything but it's impossible he could be this boogieman he's being made out as and yet never been caught. He's been married this whole time and has 5 normal kids you know? I guess he must be some Dexter level genius psycho right? :/
No, we don't. We like muckraking, but we defend celebrities, too--a lot. We like finding reasons they're not guilty, even if those reasons don't make sense, or justifying or excusing their behavior. We look for reasons to discredit the accuser instead of approaching the case with new eyes.People like tearing down celebrities. That's the core it. Something to gossip about. We raise people up because we like to see them fall.
I bet everything regarding sensitive, adult topics is "click-bait sensationalism" to you, isn't it? Things like this need to be discussed, not squelched just because it makes you uncomfortable.cpukill said:Should we just start referring to MovieBob as the Patricia Hernandez of the Escapist? Because all this (alleged) rape talk screams click-bait sensationalism.
And yet, despite 2 dozen accusations, not a shred of proof good enough for a court of law to act upon has been brought forward. Think about that. 2 dozen rapes, throughout his life, wherein he leaves no physical evidence? In this day and age of DNA tests?Nixou said:I don't know, I'm never a fan of condemning someone based solely on allegations
One person making accusations may be mere allegations
Two or three persons may be the very unlikely but not entirely impossible event that one person's fame attracted several unstable people willing to do anything to get their fifteen minutes of glory.
Two God-Fucking Dozen people telling the same tale is a wealthy and powerful rapist who used his clout and money to treat several other Human Beings as if they were lifeless sex toys and get away with it.
Ad Populum Fallacy. Just because a lot of people believe something to be true doesn't make it true.Nixou said:One person making accusations may be mere allegations
Two or three persons may be the very unlikely but not entirely impossible event that one person's fame attracted several unstable people willing to do anything to get their fifteen minutes of glory.
Two *** Dozen people telling the same tale is a wealthy and powerful rapist who used his clout and money to treat several other Human Beings as if they were lifeless sex toys and get away with it.
There have been a couple of cases of essentially that happening on college campuses. One listed every male-sounding student name as a "potential rapist" at University of Maryland, Oberlin had a "Rapist of the Month" poster by Take Back the Night, at Brown in 1990 and Columbia this year "Rapist Lists" were written on bathroom walls.Supahewok said:OT: What even is this. The man, thus far, is guilty of nothing. This article feels... dirty. Gross. Like taking a picture of a random dude, putting it on posters, and leaving them up everywhere saying THIS MAN COULD RAPE YOU.