RedMercury said this:
That reads to me like he is ok with false accusations of rape because of poor behaviour.
Does it read like that because it's what the poster is intentionally implying or just what you assume they're saying? Because read plainly, the quote your using basically just says that the writer has no sympathy because the stuff he was doing wrong was enough to warrant his firing and the destruction of his reputation which is NOT by any means saying false accusations are justified.
If your gonna agree with the statement that the hot takes here are people saying false accusations are okay or especially that Signore should be raped, then I want fucking receipts. Show me someone saying that.
As for me personally, the only part I disagree with that quote that he says this "isn't a mob justice thing". I don't know what an audience collectively turning against a public figure for a perceived injustice and getting them punished either directly or indirectly would be called, whether the public figure is innocent or not, if not mob justice. That part of the quote is wrong and I'm not sure what that person is talking about.
Otherwise, he's basically saying that Signore seems to amount to a shitty and potentially dangerous person anyway, so him not being guilty of rape doesn't go meaningfully far enough to make it so that the stuff that happened to him shouldn't have happened. Keep in mind, Signore hasn't gone to jail over this false accusation of rape. He was never even brought up on any legal charges. The only legal proceedings that followed this were Signore trying to sue Defy Media over wrongful termination.
I think saying Signore deserved to lose his job, be labeled a sexual predator, and blacklisted from the entertainment industry for the women he did harass even if he didn't rape April Dawn is a perfectly fine opinion to have and one I am partial to. I think April Dawn falsely accusing him is reprehensible and does damage to the MeToo movement because people will now use her lies as a way of justifying not believing other women. Plus, people should not be accused of crimes that they didn't do as a general rule. But as far as Signore himself is concerned, it's hard to muster up too much sympathy when nothing that happened to him is something that shouldn't have barring the false rape accusation.