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Originally Posted by dr2005
Bullshit. Utter, utter bullshit. That isn't remotely what Amy said, and frankly twisting her words to that extent is below you. People can choose not to press forward with court cases for all manner of reasons, particularly with those which are highly emotive issues, and a lot of them have nothing to do with the veracity of the claims. I would strongly urge you to do some more research in future before making such sweeping claims.
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Disbelief is just another reason why women don't speak up... why rapists go free.
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She is stating that the reason rapists go free is that we do not believe those who accuse others of rape without evidence. That was my interpretation of it anyway. It seemed to me as though she was blaming the low rates of imprisonment of accused rapists on the fact that we do not automatically believe them; disbelief is the view we hold by default, and rightly so, anything other than disbelief and the accused is guilty by default.