Quote: (01-08-2014 02:36 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Au contraire, DOBA... being "one of their own" is no match for the awesome power of RAPE. The moment it is invoked, people retroactively classify the offender as "not really one of us, otherwise he couldn't have done it", and all his former goodwill is destroyed. Just look at Assange. A sizable portion of the public actually believes the ludicrous claims against him simply because they have been conditioned to do so.
Maybe you're right. There's already White Knighting in the Buzzfeed comments that's being voted upwards -- and written by exactly the type of guy who looks like you'd expect him to. Oh well.