Thread by @DaniMet1

🧵According to the #JusticeForJohhnyDepp "real victim" gate-keeping brigade, a "real victim' would not, for instance, fight back, "goad on" their abuser or belittle them, or buy them a knife as a gift. Yet, using this same bogus logic, one can't help but ask:

TW: Self-harm threats.

1. Is this how a "real victim" behaves? Forcing his "abuser" to cut him and also threatening to cut her? JD fans like to excuse this with the idea that JD had been pushed too far by her, but wouldn't one say the same about the times that AH reacted?

Sidenote: Amber bought JD the knife in June 2012 when she hadn't seriously experienced JD's abuses. JD was telling AH to cut him ca. July in 2016 during their divorce when, according to him, he'd already experienced years of abuse from her. Plus Manson did a similar thing to ERW.

2. Would a "real victim" express such violence in front of an "abuser" that he claimed he used to run and hide in rooms just in fear of her violence? In this dynamic, who fits the "real victim" stereotype better than the other? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard

3. Would a "real victim" raise his voice like this to his "abuser" to the point of silencing her while the she was in the process of offering help to him? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #SpeakTruth2Power

4. Would a "real victim" say this, and in such a commanding tone, to his "abuser"? Remember that he claims he used to be so scared of her that he used to run and hide from her out of fear. (Notice how he says "don't pretend to be authoritative" and not "don't be authoritative").

5. Would a "real victim" complain about his "abuser" this way to his closest confidants and fail to express relief that he'd escaped the "abuser's" physical violence? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #SpeakTruth2Power

6. Would a "real victim" do this to his "abuser" in such a daring and open way? Who in this dynamic fits the "real victim" stereotype better? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #SpeakTruth2Power

7. Would a "real victim" express such hateful rage against his "abuser" to his close confidants for her having left him? If you say yes, what kind of rage then would abusers be expected to express in such texts? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #SpeakTruth2Power

8. Would a "real victim" insult and belittle his "abuser" this way? Would he "goad" her to insult his own children as he does here? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #BelieveAmberHeard

9. Would a "real victim" claim to never have been mentally or physically injured by his "abuser" just to refuse undergoing a psych evaluation to determine how much damage, if any, the "abuse" inflicted on him caused? #JUSTICEFORAMBERHEARD #IStandWithAmberHeard #BelieveAmberHeard

10. It should go w/o saying that I don't buy into the "real victim" stereotype that paints all victims with one broad brush as passive recipients of abuse. But if you do and support JD, for fairness and reason, apply that same "real victim" mentality to AH and not just to him...

11. If you do, you'll notice that, as with other fair approaches to the case, even the "real victim" stereotype applies better to Amber than it does to JD. So, even with this "real victim" logic, you should be able to see that Amber is the victim-survivor.

#IStandWithAmebrHeard