UVA and the alleged frat rape - Rolling Stone backpedals

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That's just great. So, she had the whole story written before she did any research. She just had to find a case that fit the scenario she dreamed up.

And, if she didn't find a case that fit, well...

 

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This quote to the Post is insane.

“I could address many of [the questions] individually . . . but by dwelling on this, you’re getting sidetracked,” she wrote in an e-mail response to The Post’s inquiry. “As I’ve already told you, the gang-rape scene that leads the story is the alarming account that Jackie — a person whom I found to be credible — told to me, told her friends, and importantly, what she told the UVA administration, which chose not to act on her allegations in any way — i.e., the overarching point of the article. THAT is the story: the culture that greeted her and so many other UVA women I interviewed, who came forward with allegations, only to be met with indifference.”

 

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I really want to see a photo of that glass table.

 

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If you're "dwelling" on the facts, you're getting sidetracked.

We're trying to effect social change. Stop dwelling on facts.

 

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As others have said, the article gave away enough info to identify at least a couple of the students involved in the rape, if they exist.

And, we were told these were the facts.

I suspect she will tell us that she changed some of the details for Jackie's protection. Which will be a lie on the scale of Peter King.

Her story is shifting. She's done. She's a liar.

 

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Spot-on. And when you take this attitude while trying to effect social change, you end up setting your cause back far more than you advance it. Which hurts my heart, because I think this is an issue that NEEDS a white-hot spotlight shining on it.

 

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If only early on this thread, someone would have shown this same level of skepticism about the piece.

 

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What bothers me is that she won't confirm she even knows the identities of the alleged attackers.

No one is asking her to identify them in public, just to confirm that she knows who they are. And she won't do it. Why?

 

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^^^^

 

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We'd be remiss if we didn't mention many other women coming forward with similar stories from UVA:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/rape-at-uva-readers-say-jackie-wasnt-alone-20141121

Sadly, these are all called into question now, too. But it definitely passes the Bill Cosby, where there's smoke, there's fire test.

 

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Because we all should apparently have an ardent desire to throw a disbelieving light on rape claims like you?

 

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Because this particular story reeked of bullshit.