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Have you ever been accused of something that wasn’t true, yet you had no way to prove your innocence? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ll start. Teenage me driving up the street to hang out with friends at the mall and passed my younger neighbor and his mom. When I got back a couple hours later, the neighbor’s mom was livid - confronting me for the slight. I seriously had no idea wtf she was talking about and I couldn’t convince her otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was walking home from work late one evening 20+ years ago when someone in a big pick-up truck pulled up next to me, rolled down their window, and started berating me for "doing drugs and chasing girls".

I was not, at the time, doing drugs or chasing girls. I was working an IT job in a tiny New England town, had recently been dumped, and was convinced that I would never date again, oh woe is me. Some server had blown up and I'd been at the office late.

And for this I get hollered at by some stranger?

Best I can figure is they mistook me for someone they knew — who, for all I know, was doing drugs and chasing girls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol your twin sounds like a party animal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Quite a few times. Not much you can do about it except avoid the person forever. Spent 3-8 grade refusing to talk to a fellow student over them doing this to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This happens to me all the time to where I don't even have a specific story I can think of that would be more interesting than another. I guess I just look guilty 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Here on Lemmy multiple times. Taking a stand on digital freedom and the right to communication as a basic human right has gotten me labeled as a *phobe multiple times.

Little do they know...

Alot of internet debates devolve into ad hominem attacks, casting labels about, the worrisome ones access you of thought crime which is impossible to disprove.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Had a few in mind, but I got to thinking and remembered I actually did do it lol

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