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MagpiesAndCats t1_jdzkkoq wrote

Broadwater‘s luck was that Sebold’s second part of the book “Lucky”, about the trial, which was all over the place and didn’t make any sense, caught the attention of an executive producer called Mucciante, working to adapt Lucky on film. Mucciante hired a private investigator to review the evidences, which ended with Broadwater being exonerated.

Sebold didn’t really apologise to Broadwater; she carefully put together apologies that blame the system which she was an innocent part of. While what happened to her was horrific, the fact that later she saw a black man and she was 100% convinced he raped her, with no evidence whatsoever, puts just as much guilt over her as over the system.

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EdLesliesBarber t1_jdzs4z2 wrote

Profoundly shocking to see so many blindly defending her.

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Drewdru t1_je06774 wrote

And no mention whatsoever of the blatant racism behind all of this.

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EdLesliesBarber t1_je09s08 wrote

Something still happening today. Testimony alone from a white person or police has taken decades from thousands of black men, many their lives.

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global_scamartist t1_je8t89k wrote

They can’t seem to reconcile that a rape victim can also be involved in perpetrating injustice against someone else, whether it be unintentionally through her own naïveté and trauma or if not intentionally, at least have other aspirations (publishing a memoir, getting it made into a Netflix movie) - be an unreliable narrator. It could be mostly passive or active but taken on a whole - she’s not a completely harmless.

Edit: She also wrote lies about Broadwater. She wrote that he had a criminal record which he didn’t and that he sent a hit man after her friend. This was when she was 36 writing about her experience at 18 so she had plenty of time to check.

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