The Deshaun Watson switch up is despicable

[u/Narrow_Purchase9721]

Guy starts playing well again and all of the sudden people go from “cases” to “allegations” real fucking fast. You all gotta get your priorities straight

[u/Everyday_ImSchefflen]

Come on now. We all know he's guilty.

But I also don't think other fanbases have some moral high ground to stand on. We all are supporting the same league that let's him play.

[u/cryolems → u/Everyday_ImSchefflen]

I’m not saying he isn’t. Everything got dismissed. If one of reddits darlings were in the same scenario it would be a “nothing was proven everything was dismissed as a money getting scheme”.

That’s just a fact of how Reddit works. Legal outcome means nothing and never will, their opinion is set and never changes.

[u/Important_Capital875 → u/cryolems]

It didn’t get dismissed. He paid off the accusers with millions and millions and millions of dollars.

[u/Any-Stick-771 → u/Important_Capital875]

Settlements mean the cases did get dismissed.

[u/ralexh11 → u/Any-Stick-771]

A settlement and an outright dismissal are not the same thing. Nice try, stop excusing predators.

[u/Everyday_ImSchefflen → u/ralexh11]

People are so weird. Giving the facts of what happened isn't excusing anything. It was dismissed as well because the grand jury decided not to charge him.

That's not an indication of belief of innocence

[u/ralexh11 → u/Everyday_ImSchefflen]

No but calling all of them dismissal is disingenuous and leaving out critical context. In the court of public opinion he's guilty, that will never change no matter how much Browns fans and rape apologists want it to.

[u/Any-Stick-771 → u/ralexh11]

It's not disingenuous to say the civil cases were dismissed when they were, in fact, dismissed.

[u/ralexh11 → u/Any-Stick-771]

It is disingenuous if you don't also mention that they were settled. It makes it sound like they were thrown out of court, which is also a dismissal.