re: Roy Moore is Automatically Innocent and Louis CK is Automatically Guilty

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Double Standard. Be consistent people.

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bullshite. We weigh "the evidence" - a single accusation (although it is a bad one) from - let's just be frank here - FORTY YEARS ago - that is only now coming to light in the middle of a (for Alabama, anyway) "competitive" senatorial election, versus 5 women now with allegations over the past 15 years against CK.


Now - am I inherently suspicious about these allegations? Certainly. Against CK and Moore (and Cosby - at least for a while) - and the benefit of the doubt is always with the accused.

With Weinstein, for example, he more or less conceded the conduct and literally dozens of people came forward. There seems to be a #metoo cloud around CK right now - but I'm willing to let all these facts mature.

Are the allegations credible? frick it, "could they remotely" have happened as alleged? Starting from there and moving forward.

But, to blindly accept the word of the accusers with no other corroborating evidence after years (decades) of silence is to hold every man hostage to a "he said, she said" situation if it is ever advantageous for someone to either make such allegations or bring them to light - well after the fact.

I was just saying that about Feldman the other day - when Haim still alive, even, it was a string along process (they were trying to make money) and, while I found them credible, holding all these potential people hostage when they could have just named names was unconscionable. So is this kind of delay between act and accusation.