Author: Shahid Bolsen

This is an excellent article, and an important reminder. I would disagree, however, with the author’s statement that accusers should automatically be believed. And that has to do with the other side of the “presumption of innocence” coin, namely that the burden of proof rests with the accuser. This implies automatic incredulity, not automatic belief;…

Unless you are talking about a very specific example of a group of people who are suffering, and apply to them the description of “oppressed”; this word is near meaningless. It is impossible to talk about “THE Oppressed” as if they are an identifiable nationality or ethnic group. Every human being is oppressed in one…