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The to add insult to injury it was said that we were “weaponising” her accusation by tweeting it out then pointing out the lack of response after waiting most of a day. That is until she tweeted it out under #astroSH, then it was retweeted by myself and a few others. That might be about 1/10 as bad as what Tchiya Amet has lived with.Ī very dim and distant second to that is that her very detailed post “End the silence” was met with over a year of silence.

#Tchia amet tv#

Then used it to invest and make $100,000,000.and then they were on TV being discussed as a financial genius and popular hero. I want the men who read this to imagine that someone stole ten years of your income. No assembly of words can express how horrible I imagine that must have felt for her. She then had to stay silent while the man who attacked her became more and more successful and popular. Why didn't any of the people who were supposedly so active about this all along say something, or reach out, or even mention this? The details in this account are more proof than most of the tweeted out accusations.īy a factor of a million it is troubling that such a well-known publicly loved astronomer raped someone thirty years ago and suffered no consequences. This was published a year before #astroSH blew up. The response to it raises troubling implications in so many ways. Tchiya Amet accepted a seemingly innocuous cup of water from her host, a man she respected and trusted. Then, he violated that trust and her body in the most invasive way possible.Ĭontinuing to assume that the accusation is true. This is not sharing drugs with someone as a willing participant. If getting drunk or high with someone then having sex counts as rape then all the sex at Woodstock was rape. This wasn’t a blurred lines situation. She told me to put a napkin or something like one over my drink. My mother still reminds me to watch my drink when I go out with anyone. That was something young men did way too often.

This sounds just like what Bill Cosby was accused of and his accusers are more or less uniformly believed in the popular press and by the general public. I have lived in this nightmare for 30 years, and it stops today.- Tchiya Amet October 2014 quoted verbatim. I recall coming back to consciousness briefly, then next thing I remember is seeing him in the hallway the next day. I accepted a liquid in a cup made out of a coconut shell. He was like my big brother, or so I thought. I went to his apartment to visit like I did almost every day. I was like 15 years ahead of Emma Mae Jamison. My dream was to become the first Black Female Astronaut. I was studying Galactic Astronomy with the de Vaucoleurs.

In case you missed it, I was a grad student in Astronomy at UT Austin, the same time that Mr Tyson was there. The accusation against Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Which does not mean "calling the victim a liar" either. Read to the bottom of the page where I write about the fact that the presumption of innocence still stands for good reasons and that in reality we should never take any allegation at face value without an actual trial. (FOR THE SAKE OF BOT SUPPORTING A POSSIBLE VICTIM AND POINTING OUT THE TRUE NATURE OF THE #astroSH MOVEMENT. Let us accept, as many who tweet on #astroSH have insisted, that no one ever lies about sexual harassment, assault, sexist acts, or anything sexual. Until I say otherwise I am going to suspend my principle belief that the accused must be treated as innocent until proven guilty. That this has occurred, and that the response to it has varied from very little support to outright hostility is what I find most disturbing. Then when she comes forward with a blog post about it her story is met with over a year of solid deafening silence. As if that wasn’t awful enough Tchiya Amet lived with it for 30 years.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist I and many other astrophysicists look up to has been accused of rape by Tchiya Amet who was a student at UT Austin at the time that Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a graduate student TAing her Astronomy 101.