# Gore Vidal calls Polanski victim "little hooker," claims anti-Semitism got "poor Polanski"

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**Created:** [October 31, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gore-vidal-calls-polanski-victim-little-hooker-claims-anti-semitism-got-poor-polanski/515793 "2009-10-31T00:34:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gore-vidal-calls-polanski-victim-little-hooker-claims-anti-semitism-got-poor-polanski/515793/42 "2009-11-02T15:46:54Z")

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I’d be more inclined to believe Vidal’s account than anyone’s that has posted in this thread.

Regardless of what the statute books determine rape to be, why is it so difficult to consider that Polanski’s victim might have been a teenage slut?

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