Opinion of Bill Cosby

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lol

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Bedstuy is correct.

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Anyone should read the first two pages of this thread to see that we weren't talking about these recent... accusations. None of which have as much been filed in a court of law mind you. Also I've been seeing a lot of these sorts of photos lately:



An old black man in a hoodie and scraggly beard... funny, that's not the impression I had of him. Often these are juxtaposed with pictures of smiling and often white women, his accusers. Hmm...

There are a lot of people, particularly the younger feminist types who believe in "intersectionality" and that all activist causes are related no matter how unrelated they might seem, and only know and resent Cosby only for his "victim-blaming" comments on Black people, who, beyond their general willingness to discard any semblance of due process (our marching band has recently implemented a policy of throwing out anyone who is accused of sexual assault, and recall the whole mattress thing), are more than happy to see this "race-traitor Uncle Tom rapist" experience an ignominious demise.

Also keep in mind in his time black people were lynched for as much as looking at a white woman. I'm sure large sectors of the public would have been gleeful at his disgrace in the 1980s, certainly more than now.

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Are white people, on the whole, more racist now than they were 50 years ago? Unless you can argue that is the case I'm not sure how much of a point, if any, you have.

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An old black man in a hoodie and scraggly beard... funny, that's not the impression I had of him. Often these are juxtaposed with pictures of smiling and often white women, his accusers. Hmm...

There are a lot of people, particularly the younger feminist types who believe in "intersectionality" and that all activist causes are related no matter how unrelated they might seem, and only know and resent Cosby only for his "victim-blaming" comments on Black people, who, beyond their general willingness to discard any semblance of due process (our marching band has recently implemented a policy of throwing out anyone who is accused of sexual assault, and recall the whole mattress thing), are more than happy to see this "race-traitor Oreo rapist" experience an ignominious demise.

Yes, but of course a person could not notice any of this unless they treated this discussion as something other than a contest of moral outrage.

Well that's what this all is, isn't it? I'll admit I'm seeing it as leftist types gleefully rejoicing in and trying to ensure the ignominious demise of one of their enemies- but yes.

Does the fact that more than fifteen different women, who knew or interacted with him over a period of decades, and have put forward similar stories all accuse him of sexually assaulting them mean that he's probably a rapist? Yes, I think so.

I don't think so. Which is why they deserve to be determined in a court of law. The idea we as a society- the mob- has the right to determine what someone did and didn't do, based off of zero evidence, and impose heavy material and reputational penalities as a result, is absolutely revolting.