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i am absolutely disgusted by some of you, but thanks for reminding me of the reasons why i stopped using tumblr. i realized a long time ago that this tumblr community has nothing to do with "conor fantalk" but is much more some high school-like bullshit thing where everyone tries to get the attention of the biggest conor bloggers - for whatever reasons - and everyone wants to be the biggest coolest fan since 1990. and of course some of you are so very mature and adult and "respecting his privacy" - so that's why you keep searching the internet for conor-stuff 24/7 like some creep? wow. but i don't even want to get started on all this crap because i know the people i'm talking about will never understand it, because apparently they seem to know everything (mostly, of course, everything about conor - while still, of course, 100% respecting his privacy (and, of course, they've never googled corina or searched her facebook profile, and, of course, they never stalked him after a concert to get one stupid picture taken). and all their knowledge is based on the internet because apparently everything on the WWW is true, right? nobody on the internet lies, right? just like you? because you really never exaggerated when talking about how you met conor after a concert? when you told everyone how cute he was and how long he talked to you, when actually he just said hello and goodbye? but everyone wants to tell a great story, right? and of course none of you started listening to his music because of songs like "lua", no, you knew him before everyone else did, right? and also you love every song he's ever recorded and every band he played in or collaborated with, right? see, it's so easy to fake stuff here. easy because there are enough idiots to believe your stories. i will not comment anything concerning the rape thing and just quote an article i read which i agree with 100%. you people need to stop doing this. stop playing the detective. stop telling people to send you evidence. who the f--- are you? inspector columbo? btw i want to point out that i am of course not talking to every person on tumblr. actually i am talking about very few. now please read this article and stop making this your business to judge on.

I wasn’t going to write about the Conor Oberst rape accusations, because the last thing the internet needs is more noise over allegations that no one has any way of knowing are true or false. But the way this whole thing is playing out is both depressing and mildly terrifying. Virtually as soon as the accusations were posted, the internet went crazy, and not in a great way. First it was the accusations going viral on Tumblr, and then it was irresponsible commentary pieces like this, in which a writer explains that she believes the accusations because she had a similar experience. Now, Tumblr discussion of Oberst has become a cesspool of unfounded assumptions and increasingly frightening attempts to out and/or discredit the accuser. People. We need to stop.

Let me be very clear: I’m not defending Oberst here, and I’m not stating that I don’t believe his alleged victim. The thing is, I have absolutely no evidence to form an informed opinion either way, and neither do you. All we have is a credible-sounding testimony from a person in an internet comments section. The testimony could very well be true. Just as easily, it could be a person with some sort of vendetta against Oberst, who stands to gain something from publicly defaming him. We just don’t know. We have no way of knowing.

Clearly, this case raises depressingly familiar issues of rape victims feeling scared to speak out for fear of not being believed, and it’s impossible to overstate the extent to which the noise over false rape allegations is Men’s Rights Activist bullshit that should be treated with the contempt it deserves. Rape victims are routinely disbelieved and ridiculed, and this is an enduring blight on our legal system and our society. But the fact is that online comments sections are both rife with lies and hidden agendas and studded with startling examples of semi-anonymous candidness, and no one — not me, not you, not anyone else on the internet — has any idea right now which this is.

You might have a gut feeling, but the point isn’t whether any one of us believes this person or not — the point is that people on the internet have no business making unilateral decisions about Oberst’s guilt or innocence, as many people have already been all too keen to do. You can no more say “I just know this is true” than you can say ”If it really happened, she would have reported it at the time” or “I just know Conor would never do that!” You can’t know.

The court system has certainly proven itself terrible at evaluating rape accusations. This is something that clearly deters rape victims from reporting what happened to them, and makes it plausible that an xoJane comments section is the only place someone might feel comfortable speaking out about what happened to her. This problem urgently needs to be redressed, and the first step is approaching rape accusations with sympathy rather than skepticism.

But having the internet mob pursue these claims doesn’t produce “justice” either. As the Reddit Boston bombing fiasco proved, the internet acting as judge and jury on the basis of something that’s ultimately nothing more than a nebulous gut feeling is a dangerous business. It doesn’t serve the interests of the victim as much as it does the self-righteousness of the angry mob. Indeed, it may be the exact opposite of what the victim wants, and either way, she ends up marginalized in her own story.

If you think I’m exaggerating here, there’s a whole bunch of amateur internet detectives who are doing their best to out the girl who made the accusations, and to “prove” that she’s lying. There’s also a post doing the rounds on Tumblr right now — 5,000 notes and counting — entitled “Conor Oberst: Rapist.” Both of these are wrong, because no one here is operating with the facts.

Ultimately, the only judgment that anyone can make here is a personal one. You might well feel that you believe the accusations, and reassess your support of Oberst accordingly. You might also feel that you don’t believe them. All anyone on the internet should be doing now, however, is offering resources for this person to get help and to pursue her allegations further, if that’s what she wants to do. Beyond that, it’s irresponsible and dangerous to speculate, and anyone who’s come out and made definitive statements either way should know better.

Sadly, it’s looking like, if anything, the wave of internet opinion on this is discouraging the original commenter from pursuing the case. In a now-deleted Tumblr post, someone who claimed to be the same person posted this (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the reblog):

Look, I didn’t intend for any of this to happen. I was a somewhat regular commenter on xojane and felt safe there. Call it dumb, naive, etc but when I hit that post button, I did not think my comment would be anything more than an exchange with one or two other commenters sharing their stories.

There are also now threats of impending lawsuits, and one gets the feeling that no one is going to come out of this at all well. The internet as a whole needs to take a very deep breath here. Mob justice is no justice at all — not for the alleged victim, not for Oberst, and not for anyone else.

source: http://flavorwire.com/432645/the-internets-dangerous-opportunistic-speculation-on-conor-obersts-rape-accusations-needs-to-stop/  

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oh my god. i am fucking dead. OH MY GOD kmoijnhbugvzfcdfvgbhnjmlkrxctvzbguhnjmrxctvzubinjmokponju

01/20/13 Zurich Volkshaus

On-Sale Fri 21st Sept – 9AM CET

01/22/13 Munich Alte Kongresshalle

On-Sale: Fri 21st Sept – 12pm CET

01/24/13 Berlin Apostel Paulus Kirche

On-Sale: Fri 21st Sept – 12pm CET

01/25/13 Copenhagen Bremen

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i want this hair back. NOW. 

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hi so is this his girlfriend or just a fan because this is my favorite picture ever and it's so cute if gf and it'd so nice if fan and yeah /post/11817132504

uhm... no that's not his girlfriend. it's laura burhenn. she toured with bright eyes last year. 

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to all my beautiful followers who are lucky enough to see conor live these days/months: i hope you'll have some phenomenal experiences and a great time!

i'm so busy with finishing my university degree, planning my future, moving to a new city, keeping my boyfriend entertained and all that stuff, which is why i can't find the time to update this tumblr at the moment. i'm really really sorry - but i will revive it very soon, promise! until then, i'm surprised how many people keep starting to follow me, that makes me really happy! 

i hope you all have a wonderful summer!  <3  

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i like your blog

thank you so much! that's so sweet!

i like yours, too.

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favorite spot of my room because conor.

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