The allegation though is that they are pedophiles, not child abusers. Which makes things much more cloudy as the claim is they are attracted to prepubescent children, not necessarily that they have done anything to them. Unless there are mental health records etc I don’t see how this can be legally claimed as plausible fact by Lamar. But it also may get murky in claiming/proving they do not hold attraction to children as it is an internal issue whether or not it has been externalized in one’s behavior. Like drakes friendship with Millie Bobby brown may be evidenced as pointing to this internal state. As I’m sure you know as a psychiatrist- many “certified pedophiles” never harm children and many child sexual abusers are not pedophiles.
This is exactly the type of back and forth that will be had In the matter. Much like in the George Clinton matter--it meets the definition of a per se claim, and would any reasonable person believe it was more that hyperbole?
I think Baka would have the strongest case for defamation given he had an actual adjudicated “weird case” involving a 22 year old, not a child. In any event, it appears the Drake and Lamar have both taken the Diss tracks against each other to very personal, specific and dark places. If this were not rap songs and were, instead,blog posts or social media posts I think the defamation claims would be more solid. The question is if putting them in a rap song changes that and if not, where would the line be in a song that crosses over into defamation ? We shall see unless it gets dropped or quietly settled. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/drake-kendrick-lamar-diss-tracks-paedophile-allegations-feud/103810664
Nice work! Still getting my head around homeowner policies and defamation. WTH?!
It's quite the story, over and over.
Well done.
Thank you so much. Feel free to share.
Maybe a small thing. But you misspelled ‘feuds’ in the title. Sorry I was raised by a woman who would stop you mid sentence to say ‘me’ not ‘I’.
Appreciate it!
Fixed. The spell check doesn't work on titles for reasons beyond me and I have terrible dyslexia
The allegation though is that they are pedophiles, not child abusers. Which makes things much more cloudy as the claim is they are attracted to prepubescent children, not necessarily that they have done anything to them. Unless there are mental health records etc I don’t see how this can be legally claimed as plausible fact by Lamar. But it also may get murky in claiming/proving they do not hold attraction to children as it is an internal issue whether or not it has been externalized in one’s behavior. Like drakes friendship with Millie Bobby brown may be evidenced as pointing to this internal state. As I’m sure you know as a psychiatrist- many “certified pedophiles” never harm children and many child sexual abusers are not pedophiles.
This is exactly the type of back and forth that will be had In the matter. Much like in the George Clinton matter--it meets the definition of a per se claim, and would any reasonable person believe it was more that hyperbole?
I have one prior article on the issue you raise above...https://open.substack.com/pub/thefrontierpsychiatrists/p/my-high-school-advisor-was-arrested?r=1ct8f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I think Baka would have the strongest case for defamation given he had an actual adjudicated “weird case” involving a 22 year old, not a child. In any event, it appears the Drake and Lamar have both taken the Diss tracks against each other to very personal, specific and dark places. If this were not rap songs and were, instead,blog posts or social media posts I think the defamation claims would be more solid. The question is if putting them in a rap song changes that and if not, where would the line be in a song that crosses over into defamation ? We shall see unless it gets dropped or quietly settled. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/drake-kendrick-lamar-diss-tracks-paedophile-allegations-feud/103810664
Regardless, it's some startling but important New ground in defamation law