There have been several democrats who have specifically said that a woman who accuses a man of sexual misconduct should be believed. That is guilty until proven innocent, which for the democrats applies to all men unless of course they are democrats like that Ellison guy in Minnesota who is a democrat running to be the next state AG.
Re the innocent black guys killed by police, I think it most cases the cop doesn't shoot somebody unless he/she feels threatened. It isn't a question of innocence or guilt, it's a question of self-defense. Cops do not decide innocence or guilt, their job is to stop any violence and investigate what happened and arrest anybody who ought to be arrested. Sometimes it turns out that the cop acted inappropriately and should not have shot the person, nobody is saying in every case the shooting was justified. But I would say that most conservatives do not approve of unwarranted police violence against blacks, that's a pretty stupid thing to say.
I don’t think saying that believing abused women is the same as convicting the accused. When you look at the massive amounts of women who are victims of sexual assault/harassment and the large percentage that do not come forward for fear of being shamed and not believed then maybe you can understand why many want to change the status quo. Instead of immediately doubting abuse victims and challenging them to prove their claims what if we fostered a more open environment and treated them with support in the process of them telling their stories.
I don’t think anybody is pushing to convict the accused without due process but you have to admitt there is a problem with intimidation towards the abused. Do you have any productive ideas that may help?
Denying Judge Kavanaugh the appointment to the SCOTUS is pretty close to the same as convicting him in a court of law as far as the consequences go. Are you trying to say that for the reasons you stated it is okay to suspend the normal rules of law and the presumption of innocence should be pre-empted? If you're not saying that, then what other status quo are you referring to? Nobody is suggesting that we should immediately doubt the accusation of any alleged abuse or assault victim, or do you propose that any such accusation should be accepted at face value? With no facts, no proof, no substantiation? Really? How can you accept such claims as true?
It sure looks to me like the Left is definitely pushing to convict Kavanaugh without due process and believe every word Ford says against him. True, it's not a legal conviction, but you have to admit that if not confirmed his judicial career is over and he will have to live under the cloud of suspicion for the rest of his life, as will his family. That's just not right, what if it was you going up for a promotion and somebody comes forward and accuses you of sexual misconduct 36 years ago with nothing at all to back it up. Any job at all, which is probably just as important to you as this SCOTUS position is to Kavanaugh. And your boss says sorry, I can't promote you. What if it's your father, brother, husband, son? How are you going to feel about that?
We've got a serious problem in this country when it comes to sexual misconduct. I don't have much in the way of productive ideas that could help, maybe teaching everyone in school from jr high on up that such behavior cannot be tolerated. Girls have got to be encouraged to say something to somebody, cuz if you don't then the perp will probably do it again to somebody else. BUT - we cannot change the basic, underlying principle of justice in this country. Which is that we do not convict somebody in a court of law or in the court of public opinion without reason or cause. The day we start believing somebody's unfounded accusation against somebody else is the first step down the road to anarchy. One of the primary functions of gov't at every level is to protect our rights, and if we get to the point where innocent people are denied their rights to a fair hearing/trial then we got ourselves one very big problem.
