There's been a few people in this thread doing the whole "until there's proof it's all just allegations" routine. I said something similar to another one of them. I'm sick of people being willfully ignorant.
I was not contesting the legitimacy of anyone's claims, merely stating the fact that these allegations, however well supported, were allegations made on a gossip website where 95% of the people who post are legitimate psychopaths. Maybe one day you will be accused of something and you will realize why the legal system is structured the way it is.
You make allegations, and you then have the opportunity to prove whether those are true. Allegations can be true lol so take it easy. What should I call everything that has been said about Pete? Is everything that has been said by Dustin and Sean an indisputable fact? Literally everything could be true and referring to them as allegations does not mean I think they are untrue, you just have no idea what you are talking about.
It seems likely that many of the allegations were well known by others in and around the DIS team for years. If these stories are true, they cannot be the first stories that have ever happened. I am not trying impugn the character of anyone on that team; I understand what it is like to be on a team where something improper or unprofessional is taking place and doing the 'right' is not always apparent. The third party 'know-it-alls' who have usually accomplished nothing always have all the answers, but in those situations, it is not that simple.
There are many stories that have been around for several years that, if believed, showed mean spirited and predatory behavior on the part of Pete. I read many of Sean's original posts on the other site and all of it seemed very plausible and awful. All of this can be true, and yet Pete never resigned.
The amex legal case was filed in March and if you read it fully it does appear that Dreams was caught off guard, or at least that is what they claim in their response from June 2023. Once the response to the lawsuit was filed by Dreams it seemed obvious, at least to me, that Pete and DU were going to split. That was the only point I was making.
To say I am creating some culture that prevents victims coming forward is a hyperbolic and insane virtue signal. Basically your approach is everyone must believe everything and question nothing, otherwise you are creating a culture of victim blaming. Dustin's story seems true based on what I have read, does that mean I know for a fact exactly what happened? If Pete has a lawyer would he really respond to something on 'that' website? If anyone makes a credible allegation against you, is it really the case that the company should just reflexively fire you, even when you own part of the company and 'getting rid' of you could be very difficult? I haven't created any kind of culture and am not willfully ignorant, I have literally just stated the predicate for the entire legal system in every developed country in the world lol; that these kind of criminal allegations have standards of justice lol. That doesn't mean it doesn't look bad for Pete, or that Dustin or Sean are lying, or that Pete is a great guy and I don't believe he could have done this etc.
I know only what Sean and Dustin have said, just like you. I feel bad for anyone who has been exposed to this type of thing so don't throw these bs lines around just because I won't pretend, like you, to be judge, jury and executioner to gain some moral high ground on a website about disney lol.
All I said was there are alleged incidents of sexual assault and that, whether the DU team was aware of them or not, Pete would have resigned because of the lawsuit anyway. If you want to read into the resignation to believe it means DU has done some internal investigation and proved all the alleged assault incidents are true, that is fine, but there is no way to know that.
