Everything We Know About the UVA Rape Case

eletheros · 2014-12-13T05:46:28+00:00

a body barreled into her, tripping her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table [...] sharp shards digging into her back,

Were this fictional story real, "Jackie" would have been critically injured. If the fiction then carries on as described, with the men raping her over three hours, then "Jackie" would have died right there and certainly all of the men would have had serious injuries.

Glass doesn't break like in the movies, although I'm not at all surprised such a detail gets made up for "Jackie's" lies.

Upon hearing such a bald faced falsehood, that's where any reasonable reporter closes their notebook, stands up, and walks away.

This doesn't even rate arguing about "always believe the victim", it is a physical impossibility.

calvingarner · 2014-12-13T12:13:17+00:00

I just wish our society could deal with the uncomfortable truth that Jackie lied and Rolling Stone rolled with it.

AvgGuy101 · 2014-12-13T13:11:06+00:00

At this point, there is absolutely no credible evidence that a rape occurred. It appears that there isn't even any credible evidence that she went on a date or attended a party at any frat house.

First we saw how unreliable and untrustworthy the so-called "mainstream" media was with gamergate, now we see them caught redhanded with this story. Starting to sound like rapegate or maybe uvagate.

Kudos to the Washington Post for their work on this story. Glad to see that there are still some honest reporters in this country.

morven · 2014-12-13T08:22:11+00:00

Interesting that Jackie didn't know which frat; someone else told her which one.

I think it's likely that something very upsetting happened to her, possibly rape, but no other details are at all trustworthy.

And the thing is, we know that victims of traumatic events have very unreliable memories of what happened to them, and quite often end up making sense of them with wholly imaginary details. This case doesn't even require any malice on Jackie's part. Memory is that fucking bad.

Which only makes Erdely and Rolling Stone's behavior worse. They should have been completely aware of the unreliability of a single witness, and confirmed as much as they could before publishing. Instead, it seems they didn't care. The story was too good to check, I guess.

And that is not good enough when you are accusing individuals or organizations with crimes.

Title	Everything We Know About the UVA Rape Case
Author	YabuSama2k
Upvotes	10
Comments	7
Date	December 13, 2014 5:13 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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