Here is TJ Miller's response to the allegations:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc5A8cPADAS/
To summarize, there is a picture of Miller and his wife in obvious solidarity. According to Miller, this woman tried to break him and his now-wife up when they were in college. The accuser later was acting crazy toward him and then kicked out of the comedy troupe for it.
That's a fairly compelling response, if what he says proves factual. Miller's wife was an apparent witness. It can further be fairly easily confirmed with his former comedy troupe.
That's a lot of evidence against one person's claim of a long ago rape.
If this evidence ends up discrediting Miller's accuser, it will go a long way to shutting down this medieval style witch-hunt for anyone from supposed rapists to men who mob-media-empowered women decide that they do not like (perhaps Miller).
The media's current mode of operation, in the social sphere through the political sphere, is to act as de facto judge and jury that generally demands that someone is assumed guilty and proven innocent; often from a starting point of hearsay.
Our current legal and social system went through several millenia of very painful refinements that led us to what we have today. Its precious.
The current media is taking us back to the dark ages by making an end run around our system in a manner that has its ideological compatriots, or even companies who are scared of the media, impose perhaps permanent real world economic penalties for people who are merely accused.
This also occurs when anyone breaks one of the Left's ever evolving social taboos. The media then moves to defame in a manner that has lasting social stigma and the associated penalties.
None of this should be legal. If we are to have a society that seeks justice for all, then the legal system must be the only system that can impose penalties.
Personas with undergraduate degrees, pens, a lack of a sense of the social and legal benefits of process, and what seems to be a frenzied state of mob justice can not be our judges and juries. There has to be legislation that prevents the loss of work for accusations, and moreover that limits media defamation until a trial can take place. If there is no basis for a trial, then there is no basis for the media defamation.
The effective prosecution system is currently skewed away from process, and badly. This needs to be corrected, rapists or no rapists, lest we lose our system for something that is much more crude, violent, and injust.
If anything, this backwards social process is outing a large and socially fatal media loophole that needs to be closed as soon as possible, and I believe that it eventually will be because the mob may now start to meet the crazy that it is empowering and, aslo, mobs are notorious for being unable to stop themselves at a point of reason. They will (and are) over-shooting their power, and the nation's tolerance for them, and there will eventually be considerable legal backlash.
As an aside, in the first sentence of this paragraph I had mentioned that this social process is "backwards". That is because we've been through this before, at the cost of countless lives who have needlessly been either snuffed out or excommunicated as scapegoats due to mob justice, and as such the gaping justice flaws in the current media stoked system are painfully obvious to all but he mob.
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