Jon Shenk quotes:
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There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.
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The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.
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A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.
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There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.
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If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.
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You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
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It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.
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Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.
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Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.