# Roman Polanski Redux **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 10, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618 "2017-06-10T16:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/102 "2020-03-08T17:55:10Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > For forty years, liberals especially Hollywood liberals painted anyone who wanted Polanski to be punished for his crimes as sexually repressed religious anti-semitic rubes. They argued having sex with a 13 yo was perfectly acceptable in enlightened France and that we needed to educate ourselves. These same liberals knew what Weinstein and Cosby were doing and said nothing. If the MeToo movement is serious, they would demand guys like Seth McFarlane who literally joked about it in his Oscars monologue be cancelled for their silence. Conservatives do not hold the high moral ground on sex crimes. Their record for both committing and condoning sex crimes is far worse. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/103 "2020-03-08T20:13:39Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > For forty years, liberals especially Hollywood liberals painted anyone who wanted Polanski to be punished for his crimes as sexually repressed religious anti-semitic rubes. They argued having sex with a 13 yo was perfectly acceptable in enlightened France and that we needed to educate ourselves. … cite? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/104 "2020-03-09T02:49:59Z")
In one of the other Polanski threads, I pointed out that the penalty for under-age sex in France at that time was actually more severe than in California. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/105 "2020-03-09T22:54:39Z")
And as we’re once again drifting into arguments about the victim’s age: > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Allow me to repeat, for the one thousandth time, that this is not an issue over age of consent. This was forcible rape, which is a crime regardless of whether the victim is thirteen or twenty-five or fifty. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/106 "2020-03-10T13:43:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Conservatives do not hold the high moral ground on sex crimes. Their record for both committing and condoning sex crimes is far worse. Exactly. If a 13 year old gets raped and pregnant, she was asking for it, and should be forced to have the baby because there’s nothing wrong with tying a person to her rapist for the rest of her life. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/107 "2024-03-13T16:12:09Z")
A lawsuit from someone else. It’s hard for me to see why a victim would wait 51 years before filing a lawsuit: > **[Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a...](https://apnews.com/article/roman-polanski-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit-ee77022211e2c309c6912256c1a5712a)** > > A woman has sued Roman Polanski in a Los Angeles court, saying the director raped her when she was a minor in 1973. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/108 "2024-03-13T19:21:57Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > t’s hard for me to see why a victim would wait 51 years before filing a lawsuit: For most of those years, a lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations. From the link: > The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in June under a California law that temporarily allowed people to file claims of childhood sexual abuse after the statute of limitations had expired. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/109 "2024-03-13T23:45:45Z")
Time to retitle this thread “Roman Polanski Is Rich”? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618/110 "2024-03-13T23:46:48Z")
Does anyone have him on the Death Pool? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-polanski-redux/788618.md?page=5)