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The Duke Lacrosse case was a fine example of wrecking the lives of the accused, despite eventually being found completely innocent.



And how many countervailing stories are there of womens’ careers being destroyed because the wouldn’t go along with sexual advances from superiors?


How is this relevant? Are you implying that we should be ignoring obvious injustices like Duke case, for the "greater good?"

Not sure what point you are making since all you did was ask a leading question.


I'm interested. Produce one that was on the scale of what happened to the Lacrosse players.


That's the problem with not only this issue but many others like environmental pollution -- crimes are very hard to detect when the victims are numerous, and the damage is non-public. Needless to say there are many women who have been murdered for rejecting sexual advances.


Harvey Weinstein. More people suffered and to a greater extent, more money involved. If you didn't have the ability to Google up the Duke case you could not name a single person involved, but would have no problem naming some of Harvey's victims.


I think it's disingenuous to claim that actual victims of harassment haven't suffered as much as the Duke lacrosse players. As another commenter has pointed out, I'm sure there are cases where the situation has escalated to actual murder to silence the victim. Just as lynching has probably resulted from unfounded accusations in the past. People are awful!

Why do people have to take political sides rather than supporting actual truth and justice, regardless of who "wins" a particular case? It's infuriating.




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