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If you come out with a statement like that while the issue is hot, you'll get flooded with counterarguments and ridicule. If you wait, people who would argue against you will forget, or stop caring.
Ordinarily, yes. I suspect that waiting to shape opinion of people who didn't follow the trial was the media's motive for jumping right when the trial ended.
But...it's harder here. This situation was disastrous for Heard and all of the memes about her are just hanging there for anyone, even a naive person, to find.
The other problem is: if your goal is to protect women, surely Heard needed you when she was being humiliated and being called "Amber Turd"? Like..surely we needed feminist moral leaders to nip this shit in the bud?
I would love to be a fly on the wall and see whether they were always onside and really were deterred by the backlash (which is pretty cowardly) or if they really hadn't come to a consensus for a loooong time.
It's picking your battles. If you have no chance at defending Amber Herd as she's being torn to shreds, the next best thing you can do is rewrite history to make the ripping to shreds look like a sexist attack, and her to be an innocent victim all along.
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