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The point you are missing is THEY feel they are being called liars.
Because they don't understand the difference between "no, you are wrong about that" and "you're lying".
Just like other verbal abuse it doesn't matter if you didn't intend to offend as its the person receiving the abuse that counts.
A useful principle to remember.
Rest assured I will.
You are subjecting the women to exactly the same thing that allowed their abuse to go on.
This is what they have said themselves abut Philips.
: "Being publicly contradicted and dismissed by a government minister when you are a survivor telling the truth takes you right back to that feeling of not being believed all over again.
Let me ask you this. Imagine these women came out with a statement claiming that the enquiry, when it gets going, is only going to sit for two half-days a week, and they think it outrageous that it should be so part-time.
How should someone associated with running or setting up the enquiry respond to that false claim? What word(s) should they use?
What words can they use which won't be criticised by people who know so little about words that they too don't know the difference between "no, you are wrong", and "you are lying"?