Facts of the news: This was a February 2018 case of a man that was put on a black list made by a group of students saying that they should stay away from these people, all of the people on that list were men. Apparently, they said it was a hoax but it did not stop the damage that was already done. The news outlet describes the accused side of the case and what his experiences was like. He told that he was shunned from most of his peers as a result of this to the point where he thought of committing suicide. He thought of moving colleges to finish his education as a result of this.
Analysis: This is an ongoing issue that is still relevant to this day. This topic is of course rape accusations; the accusation of rape should never be taken lightly. Although we have been doing progressively well in getting more people to come out and tell us there story but, there is still a lot to do in doing cases like this, I feel that it needs to be more confidential before it being released into the media Why? Because what were to happen if the accused is innocent? Colleges tend to go for the *innocent until proven guilty method of handling these kinds of situations. Which I feel is not the best method of handling these kinds of situation as the accusation alone can ruin an accused life.
Questions;
How do you think cases like these should be addressed?
How can we help both the accused and the accuser have a fair judgement?
2 comments:
Recently, Twitter and Facebook have been the go-to outlet for grass-roots movements like #MeToo. The online social media platform is difficult to police, and accusations and accounts made solely online prove especially difficult to verify. I'd attribute the ambiguous credibility of online resources to the majority of skepticism surrounding these internet-born social movements.
Now, the article is more of an editorial; it's a first-person perspective of an event, so I'm inclined to question its credibility. The article is published on a conservative, student-run website funded by veterans who want to encourage beginning journalists. These factors influence the articles selected by the publisher; naturally, they will post articles from conservative points of view.
What can we do to prevent false accusations? I start with this: don't spread stuff around online without checking the source and doing some research. If you don't know that something is 99.99% true, please don't spread it.
I'm very glad you posted about this because I've thought about it a lot. Over the past year or so, there has been a huge push to bring sexual harassment into the light, which, no doubt, it should be. However, along with this push comes a lot of accusations, and these can be very dangerous, especially when they aren't true. They can totally ruin someone's life, socially, emotionally, and even financially. Again, don't get me wrong, sexual harassment is a huge problem that needs to improve, but the consequences of people taking advantage of it can have severe impacts on others. This goes for accusing people of being racist too, or even just supporting something that a lot of other people don't. Once this stuff gets out to the public, there's no way to stop it from spreading, and the next thing you know, you have no friends, people you don't even know already don't like you, and companies don't want to hire you, and you have to spend the rest of your life trying to get back to where you were.
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