There are professions where empathy is optional. DOJ_TERMINAL // STATUS: EMPATHY_NOT_FOUND Prosecutor is not one of them. You don’t get to sit at the highest table of law enforcement in the country and treat sexual assault survivors like a scheduling inconvenience. You don’t get to call accountability “theatrics” and expect trauma not to hear contempt. …
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When sexual assault investigations become “theatrics,” survivors hear something else entirely. Justice must be consistent — not partisan.
PTSD explains. It does not excuse. That’s called adulthood. ▌ There’s a sentence that makes people uncomfortable: PTSD explains behavior. It does not excuse it. Both halves matter. Trauma changes the brain. That isn’t weakness. That isn’t politics. That isn’t opinion. It’s neurology. Hypervigilance, emotional flooding, shutdown responses—those aren’t personality defects. They’re adaptations that once …
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Being against rape costs nothing. Standing against it requires accountability, belief, and the refusal to protect perpetrators.
