Poll: Swift Justice or Innocent Until Proven Guilty #MeToo
How do you believe #MeToo allegations should be handled? This is referring to how companies should handle it, not the law. 1.) Swift Justice. The accused should be fired when accused of sexual allegations - without needing hard evidence. 2.) Innocent until proven guilty. The accused will have no action taken on him until proper, hard evidence is presented.
The olympics doctor is a clear example... here’s a new poll option: should he have stayed in his position, examining teen olympians until the conclusion of the trial? According to the current poll results 15 out of 18 men in blind think that doctor should have been doing his former job until a few weeks ago or whatever.
No. There's a middle ground. Get suspended, but not fired. Suspension until end of trial. That's what I'd do in a situation like that.
Yes. If an accusation is made, remove the person from the position of power. Investigate, then decide.
Yeah, I’m not voting in this shitty poll.
I feel like there’s an important middle ground between these, which is an investigation before firing. Too often investigations don’t occur.
The middle ground is that accusations should be investigated for credibility. “Hard evidence” may be impossible for some types of offenses, and is not the only way to establish credibility (in the view of HR/ the company). For example, I don’t think there was “hard evidence” in the case of Cosby or Weinstein, or even in the cases of pedophile priests for that matter.
FWIW I am male.
Why are we OK with lack of “hard evidence” for sexual offenses but not for murder?
What about the Polanski option: proven guilty and still working for another 30 years?
Why should the gender of who's voting matter for this pole?
I say swift justice, but if proven false no limit no bankruptcy escape law suit.
There's no such thing as "swift" justice.
Until very recently these accusations resulted in nothing, even reporting to HR or college admins led to no action. I never worked in Hollywood but lived in West LA and heard about two of the high profile abusers over 10 years ago. This poll is a straw-figure. Most of the high profile people axed from #metoo happened because it was a longstanding open secret, multiple people came forward with similar stories... so companies are trying to cover their asses after ignoring this because why cook the golden goose as long as the accusers can be silenced with a settlement agreement. But settlements alone no longer fly, so companies are sweating about their tacit complicity. In terms of law: always innocent until proven otherwise. In terms of jobs... people routinely get fired for accusations of a much less severe nature, so this poll doesn’t make sense.