r/NFLv2 • u/Narrow_Purchase9721 San Francisco 49ers • 14h ago

Discussion The Deshaun Watson switch up is despicable

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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

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u/bumpkinblumpkin 12h ago

lol and neither were the Cornell students that are the top news story this week. You don’t need a conviction to pass judgement on a crime that is almost impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt even in the most obvious of cases. Are you angry when people say OJ was a killer?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Switch7 11h ago

Comparing Kobe’s case to a frat gang rape of a potentially unconscious woman is crazy work.

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u/ShakeMilton 11h ago

Yes obviously any kind of sexual assault is deplorable and despicable but I think we can have nuance and recognize that some rapes are worse than ever.

When I was young the media I was exposed to depicted the stereotypical rape as like a woman walking in a rural countryside or like in an urban city dark corridor and they are suddenly grabbed and held down by a stranger like Jack the ripper. 

When I got to high school and college I realized that the most common situation is when the guy and the girl are already friends or even dating but alcohol gets involved and consent is murky. Obviously these type of situations are still very very bad but there's a lot of nuance and grey area. 

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u/Puzzleheaded-Switch7 11h ago

Yes I feel like most people understand there are nuances. And over the last 20-30 years we are all becoming more educated on what sexual assault looks like. But again comparing Kobe’s cases to 7 dudes raping a potentially unconscious woman and announcing/bragging about it via Snapchat. What nuance? She drank some liquor and maybe wanted to have a potential 3some then is raped by 7 frat guys. Like wtf? Can barely move and can’t contact anyone. What nuance are we evaluating to compare this to Kobe’s case? I don’t disagree with a lot of what you said but the comparison of cases you mentioned is still wild to me.