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Re:Lawsuit: Sexual harassment ‘victim’ was San Francisco bus... by spodek on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @08:02AM (#14855424)
Let's not forget that there is a real victim here: the man accused of sexual harassment, if his counterclaim is correct.

How would you feel if someone fraudulently accused you of something you didn't do that could ruin your career, open you to violent attack, the majority of people didn't believe you, even those who did still wondered what you may have done to provoke the accusation (even if you were completely innocent), that stuck with you for the rest of your life...

and then someone on line implied you weren't a real victim?

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Re:Lawsuit: Sexual harassment ‘victim’ was San Francisco bus... by Chris2048 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @08:21AM (#14855547)
"The real victim is X" isn't semantically the same as saying "Y isn't a real victim".

The former implies there was greater harm/effect to X, the latter that Y isn't really a victim.

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