Worse, most inquiries depend almost exclusively upon the testimony of abuse survivors.
At once admirable and deeply unsettling, this film draws upon the testimony of little more than a handful of the all-but-vanished ranks of survivors to relate the horror of the Nazi purge of homosexuals from the life of Germany and the aftereffects that scar and roil these men as the 21st century begins.
Such a climate is made up of two things: first, society, professionals and individuals recognising and acknowledging that abuse is likely or has occurred; second, all of those people, and society as a whole, being willing to hear, believe and act upon the testimony of abuse victims and survivors.
So, we don't have "certain" knowledge of the external world based upon the testimony of our senses.
His weakest claim here is that we can rely upon the testimony of others; otherwise, he says, knowledge of the distant past, or of places that one has never visited, would be impossible.
The hearing hinged entirely upon the testimony of eyewitnesses, including Daniel Coburn and Doc Gobles.
The charge of incitement rests upon the testimony of a Palestinian prisoner who say they heard Jarrar encourage the kidnapping of soldiers at a rally in 2012.
As Koenig illustrated, the state's case hinged upon the testimony of a single star witness: Jay Wilds, a local Balitmore pot dealer who testified that he helped Syed bury Lee's body.
Yet Searching for Sugar Man has none of the cynicism of that altogether more spurious journey, instead spinning its extraordinary yarn as if from a pre-internet age, relying upon the honest testimony of those who were genuinely cut off from the wider world, and for whom the cold facts of Rodriguez's life were indeed a foreign country.
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