Zak Smith is suing his accusers

[Umbran]

Which is why the victims can counter sue for further emotional damage and suffering.

The victims are allowed to counter-sue.

But remember that legal costs are a thing. If they are going to crowdfunding for defense, they probably don't have the funds for a counter-suit.

 

[Sacrosanct]

The victims are allowed to counter-sue.

But remember that legal costs are a thing. If they are going to crowdfunding for defense, they probably don't have the funds for a counter-suit.

True. Which is why I donated to Mandy. And why I suspect her fundraising will far outpace Zaks. If he's going to use crowdsourced funding, so can she. And I bet she will do better in that regard. So what I see happening is that Zak drops the suit (showing his true colors), and Mandy gets a decent sum from supporters for having to deal with it.

 

[lowkey13]

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[BookBarbarian]

guess Person A either goes quiet trying to cope with the detrimental things or Person A pushes back. Can't think of anything else they could do?

(continuing my analogy from earlier) Do what any small business that gets a undeserved bad review does. Choose to make your brand above reproach.

Make your interactions with costumers, vendors, partners, peers as honest, transparent, and pleasant as possible so that if your conduct is called into question you have a backlog of others you have interacted with to say "This is not how this person interacted with me" (not in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion, social media etc) just like the other ex significant others of Chris Hardwick did.

After all as it has been said many times here already, the system is set up to favor the accused anyway.

 

[Sacrosanct]

After all as it has been said many times here already, the system is set up to favor the accused anyway.

Unless you're black. As our DoJ statistics show

 

[BookBarbarian]

Unless you're black. As our DoJ statistics show

Oh yes. That is a completely valid caveat.

Edit: Also the problems for women, which are already horrifying, are far worse for women of color too.

 

[dragoner]

So what did we learn here today?

 

[aramis erak]

You reaize the basic difference, of course?

In the McCarthy Era, and during the Satanic panic, nobody had actually done anything wrong. There were no Communist agents. There were no Satan worshipers.

In both cases, there WERE a few.

Every satanist I've known (about a dozen) played D&D in high school and/or college. Not all of them did so during the height of the "satanic panic"... because they weren't old enough... but there were Satan-worshippers playing D&D in the period.

And many communist agents were convicted ... including the Rosenbergs.¹

You chose your exemplars poorly.

¹: https://fas.org/sgp/library/spies.pdf

 

[Gradine]

So what did we learn here today?

Don't feed the trolls?

 

[lowkey13]

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