Let’s say you have a girlfriend and you have a bitter breakup, all she has to do is say “you sexually abused her” and your life is completely ruined. Even though I only looked on wikipedia, that sounds like what Chris Hardwick’s ex did to him. claimed an ex abused her, didn’t give a name but gave hints that it was Chris, and when they investigated it refused to help while stating ‘she didn’t want to ruin their life’.
Sounds like she lied and realized she would get found out when they started investigating it to me.
Other then that, it’s damning someone just on allegations alone. We saw the same thing with Chris Hardwick and so many others. I’m not going to blindly believe an article and people saying things happened. I’ve seen this play out before and in several cases they were not collaborated and straight falsified.
I’m not denying that false accuassions happen. I’ve seen and experienced a few in my life.
My mother has paranoid schizophrenia (among other mental illnesses) and when she’s not properly medicated and at her lowest, she gets super suspicious of everyone and the voices/illusions she sees and hears make her think of things that haven’t happened. And because of this, she has falsely accused me and my father of doing things we haven’t done. She has accused me of hitting her in her sleep, wanting to harm or kill her, poisoning her food, doing black magic against her, and wanting to take her belongings away from her for myself. None of these are true.
She also falsely accused my father of raping me (even though he hasn’t done that and would never do that). My mom also nearly pressured me into falsely accusing someone of rape too twice (thankfully nothing came out of that and she got to her senses and realized the truth).
So yes, I get it. I get that stuff like that happens sometimes. And it’s always horrible and unfortunate when an innocent person gets accused of a crime they didn’t commit and they suffer from it.
But at the same time, I feel blindly ignoring victims can be just as harmful too. Many victims are scared of coming out and talking about their abuse because of fear of being branded as a liar (or worrying about hurting their abuser since some people tend to be abused by people they know).
Also, I don’t think this situation with Vic is anywhere near to being the same as to what happened Chris Hardwik. This isn’t one person making an accusation to get back at an ex. It’s multiple people spanning over more than a decade who have no close ties to Vic and don’t have anything to gain from accusing him of this.
I already hate the fact that Rooster Teeth cut ties with him
Why hate? They did what they had to do. Rooster Teeth (like any other business) has every right to fire who they want
I don’t say this as a defense of Vic Mignogna as a person, but businesses shouldn’t be able to fire whoever they want. Fuck the business. James Gunn shouldn’t have been fired at all, and shouldn’t have been expected to apologize unless he really wanted to. If it hurts their bottom line, too bad. That’s what they get for caring so much about money in the first place.