Roman Polanski Redux

[Little_Nemo]

@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.

[DrDeth]

@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?

[Northern_Piper]

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.

[Little_Nemo]

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.

[Annie-Xmas]

@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.

[PastTense]

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...

[Procrustus]

@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.

[Q.Q.Switcheroo]

Time to retitle this thread “Roman Polanski Is Rich”?

[SuntanLotion]

Does anyone have him on the Death Pool?