Oct 14, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
Chances are, if you've opened any of your social media apps, turned on the radio or flipped on the news channel- you've likely heard about the Cornell 7 case that is circulating around. Personally…
Brianne RobergeHost
Because it's not just an easy cut and dry scenario, right? Where 100% of the time a story that gets shared is always 100% factual.
And this is a really difficult part of using discernment and forming opinions, because it can be really easy to see information shared online and to just instantly believe the first thing that we see.
And no, I am not saying that we're not believing the victim here, because personally for myself, I will always believe the victim.
Yes, there are some rare cases, in a very small percentage, where a victim is lying and they aren't actually a victim, and they've made up a story.
Very rare, small percentage, not something that I base a lot of my energy in.
And so what I'm talking about in relation to discernment, though, is society's willingness to grab a hold of what we will call an accountability deflection.
We've been taught and programmed and conditioned in our society to constantly want to deflect that accountability.
It doesn't matter if we're talking about sexual crimes like what we're talking about right now, or we're talking about something simple and stupid.
No matter what it is, we as individuals have a lot of pride as human beings.
We don't wanna admit when we've done something bad or we've hurt somebody else.
We often reach for some type of manipulation technique to deflect accountability to somebody else.
And we're gonna talk in another episode soon, I wanna talk about labels and, and things that we are too heavily relying on in our t- society today, where we are labeling everybody certain things and using it a little too widespread.
But I wanted to talk today instead about discernment and recognizing when we might be making decisions or formulating opinions based on limited information, based on one side of a perspective, or based on a lack of understanding of what truly happens when somebody goes through a trauma response.
Because it's not just an easy cut and dry scenario, right? Where 100% of the time a story that gets shared is always 100% factual.
And this is a really difficult part of using discernment and forming opinions, because it can be really easy to see information shared online and to just instantly believe the first thing that we see.
And no, I am not saying that we're not believing the victim here, because personally for myself, I will always believe the victim.
Yes, there are some rare cases, in a very small percentage, where a victim is lying and they aren't actually a victim, and they've made up a story.
Very rare, small percentage, not something that I base a lot of my energy in.
And so what I'm talking about in relation to discernment, though, is society's willingness to grab a hold of what we will call an accountability deflection.
We've been taught and programmed and conditioned in our society to constantly want to deflect that accountability.
It doesn't matter if we're talking about sexual crimes like what we're talking about right now, or we're talking about something simple and stupid.
No matter what it is, we as individuals have a lot of pride as human beings.
We don't wanna admit when we've done something bad or we've hurt somebody else.
We often reach for some type of manipulation technique to deflect accountability to somebody else.
And we're gonna talk in another episode soon, I wanna talk about labels and, and things that we are too heavily relying on in our t- society today, where we are labeling everybody certain things and using it a little too widespread.
But I wanted to talk today instead about discernment and recognizing when we might be making decisions or formulating opinions based on limited information, based on one side of a perspective, or based on a lack of understanding of what truly happens when somebody goes through a trauma response.
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