Ever Been on the Receiving End of a False Accusation?

Interesting.

Do you believe this was a 'false allegation'? I mean, you did do the thing you were accused of, or am I incorrect? Which isn't to say that I believe you're 'unhinged', but clearly this was a response to something you actually *did*, whereas in my case, I was accused of something that was entirely fabricated and had no apparent basis on anything I'd ever done or said. I didn't even know my accuser very well.

I read this whole response, and I didn't have enough money to see ten new movies last year (most of the films I was able to catch on the big screen were animated films I watched with my 8-year-old nephew).

I must say that the rest of your post is fundamentally lacking in any empathy or compassion. Are you a right-wing conservative? Clearly you're not a progressive liberal, as I had always believed progressive liberals cared about people, especially the hard-done by (or maybe you don't think that being on the receiving end of a false allegation that prompts one to come close to committing suicide, is a particularly terrible ordeal to go through). Perhaps you could set aside your cold, nasty arrogance for a moment and display a bit of decency and humanity, or is that beyond you?

My goodness! That's bad. What happened?

I can't imagine what it would be like to be accused of sexual violence, although after my personal experiences of being falsely accused as a 14-year-old of saying stuff I hadn't in fact said, I do now have this perverse fantasy of being falsely accused of a *serious* crime on social media (say Twitter), face the predictable mob justice for about 24 hours, only for the accusation to be categorically *disproven* (possibly with evidence/'receipts' since these days, society doesn't even trust a person who subsequently *withdraws* their own accusation, preferring instead to believe the worst/their original accusation, irrespective of the later denial), whereupon I would message each and every one of the various posters who berated me and politely, but STERNLY, ask them if there's something they'd like to say to me...

I had to check what 'sweats' were. Does it mean 'sweatpants'?

I'm sorry for your experience. It's particularly hard being falsely accused as a child, as I was. It must be even worse being falsely accused by an adult (i.e. a person in authority who we are supposed to be able to trust and look up to).

Goodness knows why the coach would think you'd do such a thing, but, once again, I am sorry, and I can't say I blame you for feeling wary about your coach after that incident.

I said you made a bigoted comment about trans people. I don't know whether you're a bigot in general.

I don't know who keelai is, but I'm flattered that there are other people on this board that I might be confused for, since so far I seem to have annoyed both the left and the right on this site (then again, I did say I was going to be honest, and that it might ruffle a few feathers).

You have the right to be a bigot and/or make bigoted statements. If people don't like it, it's their problem.
Never give in to the woke mob. Ever. You give an inch, they will take a mile.

WOW

I was accused of badmouthing girls by saying that "boys are better than girls" and of badmouthing one girl in particular by stating that I was 'cleverer than her'. Neither thought had even entered my mind, let alone was something I'd actually said, so I was particularly aghast to be accused of making such statements, and was especially offended when other people started believing my false accuser, especially when they started saying "Where do you get off saying you're the best. Catherine is better than you." I don't know whether that was true or not, and it's besides the point. All I know is that I was consistently getting among the highest grades in my year, and it's only *after* being falsely accused of saying I was 'better than everyone' that I ever thought to be remotely defensive about the concept. Basically, by falsely accusing me of saying something I would never think or say, my accuser forced me to take the position of someone who *had* thought and said such a thing, and I resented that.

And that's the problem with false accusations. The people who make them are scum, and frankly as bad, if not worse, than the people who actually do the terrible things they falsely accuse people of. It's time we went back to treating false accusations as seriously as we do genuine accusations. Alas, this eminently liberal conceit is not very popular among some members of the *extreme* left, particularly the professionally victimised. They believe that it's worth innocent schmucks like me being falsely accused if it means more genuine malfeasants are convicted.

Whatever happened to Blackstone's Ratio: "It's better that 10 guilty people escape than one suffer"? Is it because the authoritarian wings of both the political left and right now dominate their respective wings, whilst left-wing libertarianism, a force to be reckoned with during the 1960s, has now disappeared into obsolesence?

This sounds like what Cartman did to Butters. I can't tell if you're reenacting a scene or being truthful. You're all kinds of messed up though.