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How mad are feminists that the innocence project has exonerated so many men wrongly convicted of rape...?

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  • 2 weeks ago
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    "How mad are feminists that the innocence project has exonerated so many men wrongly convicted of rape...?"

    It's certainly doubtful that they're happy about that.  Prominent feminist are so gynocentric on this issue that they would rather have men go to prison for false rape allegations than to have any false rape accuser have to bear any responsibility for her criminal actions.  They are on the public record saying this exact thing;

    "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."

    -Catherine Comins

    "If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them."

    -David Angier

    False rape allegations are way more common that we'd all like to believe.

    https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962055/posts

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  • 2 weeks ago

    Seeing as thought 99% of rapists never get convicted, I would assume only a very very small percentage of rapists are wrongly convicted. 

    But life is life, and life is unfair. 

    Most women in prisons are there because of men. A lot of women are in prison for defending themselves against an abusive partner. 

    Far far far more women are in prison over self defence than false rape allegation, which is so so so very small. I would say more people are in jail for stealing through the coles self serve checkouts. Those state would be interesting. 

    But the more false rape allegations and rape allegations there are in general will make men think twice before sexual assaulting a woman and that in turn is a very positive thing for society. 

  • 2 weeks ago

    There are people where the original conviction is seen as "unsafe".  Which means that the sentence cannot stand.  It is difficult to imagine conditions in which someone is "exonerated".  ie PROVE that the events never took place at all.  People are frustrated because we know that justice fails us but we do not know how to do it better.

  • liz
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Um, not mad at all. Who would want anyone to be wrongly convicted of a crime? Where the wrong person has been found guilty of a crime it means the real rapist has evaded justice for all these years.  That’s not justice for the victim/s , the wrongly convicted nor the real culprit.  Nobody would be glad about such a situation.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Not at all. This is a great thing. Nobody should be in jail for a crime they didn't commit. 

  • Jas B
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Why would any woman, feminist or not be against DNA proving someone's innocence?  It seems you have forgotten that we feminists also have fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, male friends who we love.

    The Innocence Project has exonerated many of murder as well as those convicted of rape, any case where DNA evidence can be used.

    As of November 2019, 367 people previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States had been exonerated by DNA testing since 1989 by the Innocence Project. 

    They are also studying what caused these miscarriages of justice and list those factors which contribute to wrongful convictions –eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science,  false confessions, unreliable jailhouse informant testimony, and inadequate defense.

    Surely the real question is why are so many Americans wrongly convicted and why are so many ot them are from ethnic minorities and what can be done to stop it, rather than use this as a way to bash women.

    https://innocenceproject.org/all-cases/4/#

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