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Son of Norway's crown princess to go on trial for allegedly raping four women
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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People are always so quick to dismiss rapists, if they're not condemned they're innocent, and if they have been condemned they are fine too because they were punished so you can't criticize.
Lemmy isn't a court, this article either, but for some reason everyone is trying so hard to defend rapists that even when a guy has enough charges to write a few books, people go on with a million "allegedly" and "innocent until proven guilty", even when the guy has fucking VIDEOS OF THE RAPES.
The fact that multiple people saw my comments and felt the need to defend this "poor guy" by downvoting or arguing against that is really scary to me, because it leads me to wonder if that's an accurate representation of people who support rape. And lemmy is definitely less bad than the average social media when it comes to social awareness, which is even more worrying.
I think people were just explaining why the headline had to say allegedly, not defending the rapist. The post title says allegedly because the original headline does, and the original headline does because news outlets can get into a lot of trouble if they don't when someone hasn't been convicted yet, potentially even being liable for prejudicing a trial and causing a criminal who'd otherwise have been convicted to go free.
I thought “why is everyone insisting on ‘innocent until proven guilty’?” and I came to the same conclusion you did.
At first I was like… are there super fans of this particular monarchy or something? Because I didn’t really want to believe that there are more people who think multiple women are going to pretend they were sexually assaulted by a prince for clout.
It’s crazy to me that society seems to legitimately regress sometimes.
I want to say even my comment has received downvotes. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough at that.