Neil Gaiman "cancelled"?

[ponderingturtle]

Of course I said nothing of the sort and you're attacking a strawman.

Well, he has won his legal case, that it true. Whether he has been absolved in the court of public opinion is a separate question.

Funny you certainly imply that people should change their opinion because the case got tossed.

 

[Puppycow]

Funny you certainly imply that people should change their opinion because the case got tossed.

Not at all. I said it was a separate question. I'm really not of the opinion that he should be absolved in the court of public opinion. It's a pattern of very creepy predatory behavior on his part.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Not at all. I said it was a separate question. I'm really not of the opinion that he should be absolved in the court of public opinion. It's a pattern of very creepy predatory behavior on his part.

Ah the "my thoughts are never connected to each other and you can't draw inferences from my statements, logical consistency is not to be found here" arguement.

 

[Puppycow]

Ah the "my thoughts are never connected to each other and you can't draw inferences from my statements, logical consistency is not to be found here" arguement.

Huh? You twisted what I said into a total strawman.

 

[theprestige]

Wasn't part of the reason for the USA venue that she travelled with them to the USA?

I think the main reason was that some readings of US anti-trafficking law supports the interpretation that it can be applied to any alleged trafficker in the US, regardless of where in the world the alleged trafficking occurred.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Why not explain what is wrong with the article?

The aricle is wrong because it ignores the fact that Palmer/Gaiman hadn't paid Scarlett so she had no money to travel.

 

[Puppycow]

The Neil Gaiman Allegations Are Over, So Why The Media Silence?

For many who have been following closely, the case against Neil Gaiman has essentially come to nothing - and yet, this is seriously out of sync with the mass media and what the general public thinks.

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What I was attempting to say earlier is that this person seems to be complaining that the initial allegations were covered much more extensively by the press than the fact that this particular legal case appears to have fizzled out. It suggests that whoever is behind that substack (some ardent supporter of Gaiman apparently) seems to believe that he has been fully exonerated, and that people should know about that, but that doesn't seem to be the case either. Like I said, the court of public opinion has different standards than a court of law, and the two judgments don't always align with each other, nor should they necessarily.

 

[EHocking]

Wasn't part of the reason for the USA venue that she travelled with them to the USA?

I understood that it was raised in an US court because there is no charge in NZ courts that can be used.

New Zealand's Accident Compensation Act 2001 generally bars people from suing for personal injury compensation through the court system, meaning civil litigation for sexual assault works differently there than in the US.

It is not unlike the dismissal of an USN rape case, with the decision being that that case also falls under accident compensation in the US as well.