The last post highlighted the murder of a woman’s cherished dog by police officers responding to a false report.

First thing, then, let’s acknowledge that false accusation can do more than “inconvenience” the accused: It can kill.

Why then isn’t it roundly criticized? Why aren’t multitudes clamoring for accountability? Answer: politics.

Few who are sympathetic to the effects of false accusation are induced to crusade against it, journalists who appreciate the consequences of lying tend to believe that nothing short of being false accused of rape is even worthy of complaining about in the first place, and vociferous critics of complaints of false accusation deny it’s ever a big deal (if they even allow it occurs).

The latter position, particularly, assumes that the falsity of false allegations is always detected before any real harm can be done (always wrong), and that the falsely accused therefore are only ever “hassled” and will recover after a shower and a Xanax.

The result of this wanton idiocy is that citizens (traditionally men) who’ve been falsely accused of “lesser” violations of catastrophic significance to them (like “domestic violence” or “stalking”) find reasons to question the validity of rape claims (and there certainly are some legitimate ones), because only false rape claims pique press attention (and maybe they think that exposing false rape claims will make people scratch their chins and say, “Hey, if people lie about rape, what don’t they lie about?”). They’re also provoked to hit back against a virulently sexist advocacy base where they know it will sting most.

This, in turn, confirms to the false-allegations-are-no-big-deal crowd (which is a powerful and noisy contingent) that complainants of false accusation are simply misogynistic cranks (“See?”) who should not only be discounted but denounced.

This finally translates to the inane formula: Critics of false accusation and its consequences are rape deniers.

Accordingly, for example, innocent citizens must continue to have to watch impotently as their dogs are gunned down by the police at their own homes. (The cops are criticized; the false accusers escape notice.)

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*However objectionable mainstream feminists may find the phrase false accusation culture, there’s no denying that a culture that tolerates false accusation is a culture that fosters it. (Exasperatingly, deniers of false accusation culture point out that rarely is anyone prosecuted for lying and assert that fact to be “proof” that lying rarely occurs…even as they bombard government with objections to prosecuting anyone for lying.)