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1/ My informed opinion is that Hilary Morgan Leathem is using untruths to unfairly destroy Michael Balter's @mbalter reputation. As a survivor helping other survivors, I cannot sit back and watch this dishonest mobbing continue when it has traumatised us survivors who trust him..
2/ All these screenshots were from her twitter account when it was public. She recently protected her account, perhaps to defend against close scrutiny. Let's start with the lies she told about Balter that he was aware of: http://michael-balter.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-case-study-in-lying-part-two.html To the two in the blog, I add:
3/ Let's deconstruct these falsehoods. She claimed Balter initiated his offer to help. He did not, she DMed him hoping he could signal boost her tweets about her rapist and stalker. She claimed Balter asked for medical papers. He did not, she offered...
4/ She claimed he didn't believe her. That's false, he was sympathetic and believed her 100%. She claimed he told her he needed evidence and said the exact words "prove to [him]" she was telling the truth. He never even used the word prove or proof. He only asked for context...
5/ such as notes about the alleged rapist/stalker's expulsion, and only AFTER she first offered documentation! She offered medical papers, Title IX papers, and lawyer documents, unprompted. So why did she lie? Was she angry at him for not signal boosting immediately?
6/ Was she scared that he would look into the details of the case and potentially find inconsistencies? Only she knows the truth. What's infuriating is that people are so quick to believe anything these days as long as it "feels" true to them and disregard any factual evidence.
7/ He never outed her. She outed herself many times to the public with all the same details in her DM convo with Balter. She even pointed out where the rapist was posting and tagging, alerting everyone to his identity. Here's the proof.
8/ And more proof that she had outed all the "intimate" details of her case to the public.
9/ She outed new details ("drugged") in her attempts to discredit and destroy @mbalter . Notice Balter actually ignored her defamatory tweets from June and July. She just kept at it. These tweets were before Balter revealed the contents of the Twitter conversation with her.
10/ Her husband equivocated and said that outing herself on twitter isn't really outing because she can block whomever she wants but cannot control google. Balter did NOT name her in his blog post. She and her friends and their twitter followers have outed her connection to the..
11/ blog post numerous times and resulting in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Twitter views. So I'm not doing anything new here, except to provide a dissenting view. After the Sciencing_Bi scandal that had hurt so many people, I am extra wary of the dishonest mobbing...
12/ tactics, often from the very same people who used to be best buddies with BethAnn McLaughlin and Sciencing_Bi! Another detail jumped out at me that showed inconsistencies. Hilary publicly announced that her uni did not have a TItle IX dept and capacity in 2009...
13/ I looked it up, and UIC did have a Title IX coordinator under the same department (Office of Access and Equity) as they do now. Nothing had changed. Then: https://catalog.webhost.uic.edu/ucat/cat1113archive/CA2007-2009.shtml Now: https://oae.uic.edu/discriminationharassment/reporting/
14/ I really believe the new motto of the #MeToo 
movement should be "Don't disbelieve anyone! Investigate!" because "Believe all women" excludes men, trans, and intersex individuals. It also can be cynically used to deflect scrutiny on dishonest individuals...
movement should be "Don't disbelieve anyone! Investigate!" because "Believe all women" excludes men, trans, and intersex individuals. It also can be cynically used to deflect scrutiny on dishonest individuals...
15/ It is my sincere belief that Hilary is hurting the #metoo movement in the long run by her egregious and malicious lies about @mbalter. His reputation is now ruined and he is blackballed. Even if he wanted to help people now, new sources will no longer trust him, and the...
movement in the long run by her egregious and malicious lies about @mbalter. His reputation is now ruined and he is blackballed. Even if he wanted to help people now, new sources will no longer trust him, and the...
16/ desperate, and often suicidal, survivors who have no other option (believe us, we tried those journalists you listed and Title IX avenues), will continue to have no option. Thanks a lot! Even more sinister is the mob's discrediting and stalking and targeted harassment of..
17/ @womandraft, a survivor of Danielle Kurin, who almost killed herself due to Kurin's bullying. Yes she got angry and blew up at you dishonest hypocrites after she found out you were stalking her in private facebook groups and calling on people to mass report her to twitter...
18/ Again, I don't know why Hilary lied so many times and so egregiously, but I cannot let her dishonesty destroy the reputation of an honest journalist and our hopes as survivors to get real justice against our abusers. She didn't "criticise" him. She lied to destroy him.
19/ I've talked to him extensively, and because he knows I do it in good faith, he has shown himself to be a good listener and take advice. On the other hand, he has 0 patience for the disingenuous and the liars who are baiting him for more "evidence" of his "evil" nature.
20/ I would like to end with plugging my other thread about BethAnn. I see a lot of parallels. Both hated Balter and told lies to ruin him and blackball him from the MeToo community. Remember that people like "Rose" from "Get Out" and Amy Cooper are successful when we simply....
21/ don't care what is true. We cling to what we "feel" is true: dishonest narratives. https://twitter.com/newlithicage/status/1292513035073064961 To @cici18480257 @BoysWBAccount @WomanDraft @alexeome @VitrifiedAdobe I see you, and I believe you. We are stronger than them, and the truth will set us free.
