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Smiley not only denied mistreating any of the women with whom he worked, but also claimed PBS never informed him he was being investigated until he threatened the network with a lawsuit; never told him who his accusers were; and never interviewed his current colleagues to testify to his character.
Worse, he said, “Almost immediately following the meeting [with PBS investigators], this story broke in Variety as an ‘exclusive.’ Indeed, I learned more about these allegations reading the Variety story than the PBS investigator shared with me, the accused, in our 3 hour face to face meeting.”
What Smiley experienced is exactly the sort of kangaroo court process that students have been experiencing on college campuses for the last few years.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ended that policy in September, outlining new rules that grant due process to students accused of sexual misconduct while still protecting the safety and dignity of victims. But the Obama-era rules persist in several states, where they were codified into law by overzealous Democrats.
Yes, it has gone too far. It's too easy to ruin somebody's life.
If they are a public figure, evil people can claim sexual harassment with NO PROOF and the target must defend themselves or give up their position.
Similarly, if you hate somebody, all you have to do is tell LE that they are dealing drugs. LE will raid their house and maybe kill them or their dogs with no evidence at all.
Our society over reacts on a daily basis. And the news media fans those flames and sometimes even creates the panic or rush to judgement.
Listen, I've long said that mere allegations of sexual misconduct should never be enough to ruin someone's life. Especially when the accuser(s) and the accused are both credible and the allegations cannot be proved. While I appreciate that the issues of sexual assault and harassment are being taken more seriously today than they may have been in the past, we have gone off the deep in via many cases. For those who are applauding the downfall of men and a few women who have been accused of sexual misconduct (and its essentially only a he said, she said situation, with zero corroborating evidence), I say be careful what you wish for. Indeed, something will give and it won't be pretty. Someone is going to be caught in a lie and, fair or not, people will become much, much more skeptical of allegations, even to where there is some corroborating evidence.
I remain with my conclusion that the accusations themselves fall into the category that a man desired sex and let a potential partner know it. Anybody who was not a virgin in a young arranged marriage should have what is now a complaint in their history.
Since the witch hunts so far are seen as political, in we can get ours to quit so we can be the Moral Majority to get President Trump the witch burning fires have yet to burn out..
Listen, I've long said that mere allegations of sexual misconduct should never be enough to ruin someone's life. Especially when the accuser(s) and the accused are both credible and the allegations cannot be proved. .......
That ship sailed and won't be coming back to port any more than dowries making a comeback in the Western world.
It's going to be an interesting future with regards to male/female interactions, relationships gone bad and so on.
I watched the Tavis Smiley interview on Good Morning today. He spoke of the guilty by accusation climate in his meeting. Which they only consented to by threat of lawsuit. However in 3 hours of meeting he was not able to find any information. We need new laws to protect the falsely accused.
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