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Jesus I barely heard about this. And Last year! I completely forgot that she was like "yeah I'm not going to kms if anything happens to me dont let it go." And then it happened and I just like forgot that she said it. And then forgot that it happened.
Evil shit
I could be Mandela effect-ing but I thought they said at the time it was a car accident so many people dismissed it as sad but not unusual and more details emerged only later when attention died down.
I'm not sure. The Wikipedia says:
Like we can't know what happened for sure, she was clearly under an immense amount of stress and pressure, and had been reliving trauma for years. Its conceivable that something happened to her, a switch flipped, and it all became too much. I dont think people can really say theyll never do it, especially under these circumstances.
But her family denies it, and she showed herself to be heroically brave. Is bravery the antidote for suicide? No, I don't believe so; suicide is not a sign of cowardice. But this whole thing has been about taking the attention off of the victims, questioning their word and experiences, and defining justice in a way that is centered on these powerful men and women rather than the many many victims of this heinous crime. I think there's still people who are afraid to speak out, some who may have experienced much worse than we even know, women whose testimony would still shock us and implicate more powerful people.
We can't know, but Virginia asked us to believe her. Either she was made to commit suicide or she was murdered to look like it; in either case the same people and institutions are directly responsible for her death. If she did bring about her own end, the reasons why she did still amount to murder by proxy. So from our perspective she must be believed.
Pretty much this, at a certain point it's just the difference between murder and social murder, and neither is tolerable.
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