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EdLesliesBarber t1_jdzs4z2 wrote

Reply to comment by MagpiesAndCats in N.Y. to pay $5.5 million to man exonerated in writer Alice Sebold rape case by OutsideObserver2

Profoundly shocking to see so many blindly defending her.

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Drewdru t1_je06774 wrote

And no mention whatsoever of the blatant racism behind all of this.

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EdLesliesBarber t1_je09s08 wrote

Something still happening today. Testimony alone from a white person or police has taken decades from thousands of black men, many their lives.

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global_scamartist t1_je8t89k wrote

They can’t seem to reconcile that a rape victim can also be involved in perpetrating injustice against someone else, whether it be unintentionally through her own naïveté and trauma or if not intentionally, at least have other aspirations (publishing a memoir, getting it made into a Netflix movie) - be an unreliable narrator. It could be mostly passive or active but taken on a whole - she’s not a completely harmless.

Edit: She also wrote lies about Broadwater. She wrote that he had a criminal record which he didn’t and that he sent a hit man after her friend. This was when she was 36 writing about her experience at 18 so she had plenty of time to check.

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