Five men were recently absolved of accusations of rape. The charges were brought against them by a girl who recanted her claim. Though there’s a lot of noise about “innocent until proven guilty” in this country, these boys were thrown in lock-up, held on exorbitant bail their low-income families could never hope to pay and some of them were suspended from their schools. All the result of mere allegations … which have turned out to be false.

Rape is obviously very serious, but so too should be protecting the innocent from false accusations and unlawful repudiation. Like it or not — under the tenets of our justice system — even if someone did perpetrate an act that violates the law, there should be no recourse for punishment BEFORE a guilty verdict is delivered in our courts. However, preemptive punishment, regardless of guilt, is not new in this country … this purported land of freedom and democracy … more like of hyperbole and outright lies.

Worst of all, this girl’s false rape claim undermines the veracity of claims made by other women. It jaundices people. It is a “…who cried wolf” scenario that saps the general willingness to believe true victims.

It’s a disgusting situation from every angle. The lying woman who undermines her own gender … the instant-guilt culture that wholly condemns and indefinitely imprisons the accused boys before they ever get a chance to go to trial … it smacks of the multitude of our societal constructs and institutions that do not work and are not fair, and it proves that humanity has so far to go before it reaches any semblance of true civility. So far that, judging by the evidence at hand, we’ll never get there.

Tags: misandry, misanthropy, Puritanism, racism, underdog

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