Thread by @DrDannielle

1) The #victimsrights movement is not about accusing innocent people of wrongdoing. It is about fundamentally changing the way we look at law enforcement: putting the wronged first, not last.

2) For too long, predators have taken advantage of our natural classism ("rich people are better"), racism ("white people are better"), and sexism ("men are better") to get away with heinous crimes.

3) They take advantage of the fact that most of us can't understand how bad they truly are, in two ways. We can't understand how people could BE so bad, and we literally can't understand WHAT THEY DID.

4) No matter how many times you tell me about the dossier, QAnon, Fusion GPS, or any of that other stuff, I promise you that I will remain confused.

5) People blame themselves for not being smart enough to understand the criminal mind. But they forget - that's why it's a criminal mind. Because you and I don't get it.

6) This is why I consider sexual crimes against children to be the most heinous in the world. You take a population that is very smart, very skilled, and very evil, and you combine it with a set of people who have done nothing whatsoever except breathe. Innocents suffer forever.

7) I believe that if someone is convicted of raping a child, that person does not deserve one ounce of taxpayer money. They should be put to death, period, end of story.

8) Our minds are so tormented by the existence of these people that we can only allow ourselves to believe so much and no more. We say: Well OK that happened, but the other thing, that couldn't possibly.

9) I am not saying that we should uncritically accept every account a person brings forward. I am saying that we should consider how difficult it is for a victim to actually get their story across, before weighing the data that their allegations represent.

10) If our society were truly fair and just, we would not be biased in favor of protecting the criminals. Rather, we would be biased in favor of protecting the potential and actual victims. Sadly, that has not happened yet - and it should. (END)