luv baseball posted:life4orce posted:I find it amazing how quickly the coach has been prejudged by those that weren't even there and understanding the whole situation. Is he a saint? No, but who in life is? Protecting the bad ones? Seriously?
Reminds me of those so quickly to jump on and vilify those kids from Covington Catholic.
Why? The iPhone and mob outrage is what the 21st century is most famous for so far IMO.
Duke Lacrosse, Ferguson MO, Smollett, Kavenaugh, 2016 Election and on and on. No one has ever had to pay a price (yet) for a rush to judgement much less false allegations except the DA in NC who was so far gone he cooked the evidence in court and got caught.
The result is these become free shots - jump in early with full outrage - you will never, ever be held to account for being wrong. Hell chances are years later almost half of the people with still think these things actually happened which proves the power of an allegation or bias going in.
For example for those that do not like the Clintons - they are convinced Whitewater was a thing - it was not - but you will never convince those that believe it is true. That was 25 years ago and probably close to 1/2 the country still thinks Bill & Hillary did something illegal even though they were were exonerated on it.
On the other hand - if you preach patience and let the facts come out and later on it is worse then you thought such as say the Church abuse scandel - then you open yourself up to being part of the problem.
So if people will do what they are incentivized to do (and they do most of the time) condemning first and fast is a much safer move for anyone in power.... so who should be surprised when they do. For poof of this fact look to Trumps reaction to Charlottesville as an example of what happens if you don't - he becomes a Nazi sympathizer for failing to land with both feet in a certain box.
So IMO none of this is very complicated in that regard.
Stopping false allegations and more importantly checking the mob - that is another conversation altogether.
You are much to level headed for this forum. Be gone with you !!!