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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A strong-minded advocate is not one who screams "liar!" in the face of facts, but one who has the intellect and thoughtfulness and rigor to defend and explain why their positions hold even in the face of those facts.[/quote]
I'm not the PP you were responding to, and I agree with all of your comments, except that I think we need to be careful about assuming that every testimony submitted is the same as a "fact", to the extent that's what you're implying.

In the Black at GDS account, there was an anonymously submitted post, which was put on the account, that stated that a student was called the N word by a faculty member, and that the "headmaster" refused to help. The only reason it was subsequently taken down is because people commented that the reference to "headmaster" suggested it was a fake submission. If the person submitting it had just done a little more research, it would up there now.

In discussions like this, I think it's very important that testimonies be presumed true, though others may disagree. This is the issue we just had in the Dr. Ford / Judge Kavanaugh situation, where I would tend to believe Dr. Ford's testimony. To the extent that people want to preserve their anonymity and not be publicly outed, that's also fine. That's why reporters will vet a source and promise that they'll be kept anonymous. When several local schools have looked at sexual abuse allegations over the last few years, they have used this same approach, where there is a way for anonymous testimony to be provided in a way that's first vetted by someone who will keep the person's identity private.

In this situation, that's not necessarily what's occurring, which I think is unfortunate. As a result, my tendency is to view submissions that someone stands behind as fact, but leave the jury out on some of the more outlandish ones that give no identifying details, or where the account admin doesn't know who submitted it.

That doesn't mean that I disbelieve any real student providing an account.[/quote]

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