Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35409516-20190205234652/@comment-25936766-20190206012250

The damage's been done. This is 2019, nobody cares about the burden of proof and with what proof there is nobody cares if it's solid or even convincing, they just need it to be there. "Innocent until proven guilty" is meaningless when you don't have to try hard to prove someone guilty, even if it's just guilty by public opinion.

His PR is terrible at the moment and no one is convinced he's innocent, and if he is then how much. Regardless of whether he actually is innocent or not, not many companies would be happy to hire him knowing that there will be a horde of hatemail to come along with him.

In fact he could even be taken to trial, be proven innocent, and nothing would change because again, the damage's been done. You want RT to hire him back, you'll need more than a mere Change.org petition and a weak "he's innocent, I know it!" argument (if we can call it an argument).

Personally, taking into account Vic's own words on the matter, I think he's just an idiot, either ignorant of or underestimating the oversensitivity of the average 2010s joe towards basically anything. People have been fired for less "harmful" stuff.

Even then one must take some salt. He basically said that either he's not consciously guilty of the things he's accused of or just plain states they're bull, but at the same time it's not like he can say otherwise either if he wants to keep his career. And his reason for not signing Yaoi stuff is just super weak and stupid even out of context.