Everyone knows how much I love to debunk sad attempts at debunking AH support. I may only get a part of the way through this tonight because I’m le tired.
But let’s go. 🧵#ExpertsForAmber #IStandWithAmberHeard
Okay first — amberopenletter.com Here’s the letter. Please read it if you haven’t yet because you know we’re about to get into the weeds. #ExpertsForAmber
So, this is blatantly wrong. Organisations have been talking about the use of defamation lawsuits (&NDAs) to silence survivors for a while.
Ms Mag: “perpetrators of sexual violence use the courts to punish survivors for speaking out about abuse.”
#ExpertsForAmber This is an article from before the verdict — remarking on the trend & use of defamation lawsuits as a form of litigious abuse.
msmagazine.com/2022/01/18/def…
Given that defamation lawsuits were already becoming an issue, in my opinion, watching the lawsuit and verdict play out in Virginia the way it did would be deeply concerning.
Add to that the fact abusers are threatening to “Depp” their victims #ExpertsForAmber
The NCADV made it very clear how concerned they were about the implications of the trial. ncadv.org/blog/posts/nca…
abuse survivors evidence is OFTEN just disbelieved if it doesn’t fit a certain narrative: Amber had dozens of photos, recorded injuries, witnesses to violence & audio and written confessions of violence.
But it wasn’t enough. #ExpertsForAmber
If your evidence just isn’t accepted — you could be found to have defamed your abuser. That’s scary.
And that’s if you get to court. Sometimes litigious abuse is just the person with more resources trying to bankrupt their victim with legal expenses.
forbes.com/sites/patricia…
Here’s another article, from Forbes, about the prevalent use of the courtroom to continue to perpetuate abuse. You know, the problem akr doesn’t think exists.
“People hate Putin & Kim Jong-un more than Amber Heard so it’s entirely untrue to say the online harassment against her was unprecedented.”
If you look up whataboutism in the dictionary it’s just a screencap of that tweet.
The other issue, here, is that people started to call Amber Heard a liar before she said anything. The Milani Cosmetics nonsense started during her lawyer’s opening statements.
Verdict aside, Amber was mocked and humiliated for weeks long before the jury made any decisions.
That, in and of itself, is what might stop victims from coming forward — the idea that if they say one thing wrong or focus on one wrong detail, no one will believe them.
No, we don’t believe in mutual abuse. The JURY that ruled in Depp’s favour did.
Any kind of abuse by Depp against Heard means there was no defamation. Mutual abuse doesn’t exist.
thehotline.org/resources/the-… great resource on it.
Abusers LOVE to turn and retaliatory violence that their victims participates in — either in immediate self defence or because they have been living in a cycle of abuse and normalised violence so long that it seems normal to them — against their victims.
It’s classic DARVO.
Abuse survivors fight back, sometimes they taunt or bother or hurt the person who abuses them. That’s a part of the abuse cycle.
This is one person’s account of their own experiences & I think it captures some of these dynamics well.
tiktok.com/t/ZTRQSumse/
So “Parental Alienation” has been very much debunked. If you haven’t watched it yet, check out “Allen v. Farrow” that doc breaks it down well — & this idea that courts always award women custody is also false — & not even a little relevant?
Men who want custody usually get at least joint custody. But we’re in the weeds now.
“I like oranges. I want to take a nap.” Those aren’t mutually exclusive either. Because sentences don’t have to be?
In saying both of those things though, I’m suggesting both are true regardless of their relationship to each other — so literally what is your point
Even if you believe was lying (she wasn’t) — you should find the harassment she endured & the fact she was forced to testify about sexual assault to be extremely unsettling.
Amber was abused by the public before a verdict was read. What happened to her could happen to anyone.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.