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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you believe most rapes have “recorded evidence”? By “recorded evidence,” do you mean a video recording preferably with audio where the victim repeatedly says “please stop this rape”? Because, well, that sure is how you’re coming across.

If “recorded evidence” means “contemporaneous police report of rape,” or “contemporaneous report of rape to a loved one,” or “contemporaneous report of rape to a higher-up in the victim and rapist’s shared religious community,” let me congratulate you! Because if that’s what you meant, there is a ton of recorded evidence of Danny Masterson’s habitual violent rapes!

None of you playing dumb can counter that Ashton and Mila deliberately emphasizing Masterson’s alleged distaste for drugs is anything other than them countering the victims’s reports that they were drugged by recidivist, habitual, violent, and now convicted, rapist Danny Masterson. Don’t be cute - cute is not a look you can hope to achieve.[/quote]

No-I'm not "playing dumb" or "being cute." And of course I don't believe that most rapes have recorded evidence.[b] I believe the victims, agree with Masterson's conviction and think Scientology is a cult.[/b] But I'm not a friend, family member or acquaintance of his (nor am I involved in the cult of Scientology). My point is that their perspectives (those who love and care about him and have spent years working with him, living with him, etc) are obviously biased by their positive experiences of him. How could they not be? I'm sorry, but I don't think it's fair to attack them for writing character references, not believing that he did it or being in denial. That's my opinion and obviously a lot of people disagree with me. [/quote]

They are public people who made speaking out against sexual violence a part of their personal brand and PR.

If you are a private person, you could do whatever you want in this situation and there won't really be consequences because, most likely, no one would even know.

But if you are a celebrity who claims to care deeply about crimes involving sexual violence, then you should probably think long and hard before you sign your names to letters talking about what a fantastic person this guy is who was just convicted of two very violent rapes that involved drugging and threatening women.

They put themselves in this idiotic situation where they have spoken out against sex trafficking (and gotten a PR boost from speaking out about it) but now they want to endorse the fundamental goodness of someone who has been found guilty of truly horrible sex crimes. And they are rich and famous and all their money comes from people liking them and wanting to pay money to watch them act or consume things they endorse.

So yes, there are consequences for them that might not exist for you if you were in the same situation. That's just reality. They want the upside of fame but none of the downside or responsibility. Tough $hit for them.[/quote]

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