Quote: (11-19-2014 05:00 PM)Badamson Wrote:
No. I lived there about 20 years ago though, and I saw plenty of what went on.
Yes, and you realize that women's attitudes have changed dramatically in the last 30 to 50 years, right?
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The stigma of rape in the 1960s and how people dealt with were much different than now.
Also if you're going to use the racial reasoning that because he was black that he couldn't have gotten away with it, then one could easily point out that statistically young black men are much more likely to rape(and get away with it) than any other demographic.
You completely lost me here, bud. You said, and I quote: "More likely is that they were naive and afraid that by saying anything he would destroy their careers". The relevance is that the women who claimed he raped them in the '60s wouldn't have been afraid of that, 1. Because he wasn't nearly the same massive success back then, especially not as an unknown college student, and 2. The media is not going to demonize a 19-year-old white girl who was raped by a 32-year-old black man in 1969.
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I don't think race is the least bit relevant in these accusations, especially considering that the people making them are yuppy liberals allied with the PC race hustling crowd and not race realists and paleoconservatives, they pre-date Cosby's own controversial racial statements, and the same group of people went after Woody Allen, a jewish white liberal.
I'm talking about the 1960s. As in, black people were fighting just to use the same facilities as whites. It has nothing to do with "yuppy liberals" and whatever else you just said.
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Most of these accusations are from the 80's when he was at the height of his popularity.
Where are you getting this information from? The latest accusation I've seen stems from 1984, the same year The Cosby Show came out. Considering that's his biggest success and the work he's most known for, it actually seems like the rapes
stopped before the height of his career.
With accusation dating back to the early '60s, it seems safe to believe that the bulk of the incidents occurred in the 60s and 70s.
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Just because he was black doesn't mean he wasn't powerful or intimidating. OJ had good lawyers, too.
He wasn't powerful as a student at Temple, especially not compared to a faculty member.
How much power do you think a standup comedian not named Jerry Seinfeld actually has?
OJ had retired as one of the greatest running backs of all-time by the time his trial took place. And the trial was extremely public and public opinion was not in his favor. How is that analogous to a comedian in the early stages of his career raping someone and not even being charged in 40 years?
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It isn't unusual for sexual predators to continue doing what they're doing over a long period of time. What would be odd is if there were no incidences from when he was younger. Yet clearly there was a pattern. It's not as if he was saying "you better not talk" and silencing them. It's more like they didn't want to end up in the tabloids or be demonized or blacklisted. They went to their lawyers, agents and the in some cases the authorities and didn't get anywhere.
Clearly there was a pattern to what? We don't have evidence of anything, other than loose accusations 20 years after the fact.