Posts Tagged 'sex scandal'
Margaret Atwood: #MeToo Witch Hunt
Posted: January 18, 2018 in -
Tags: accusations, false accusations, justice, persecution, sex scandal, Weinstein, witch hunt
Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash on social media over #MeToo
She raised the possibility that the answer could leave women divided. "In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated."
…She likened the affair to the Salem witch trials, in that guilt was assumed of those who were accused. This idea of guilt by accusation had at times been used to usher in a better world or justify new forms of oppression, she wrote. "But understandable and temporary vigilante justice can morph into a culturally solidified lynch-mob habit, in which the available mode of justice is thrown out the window, and extralegal power structures are put into place and maintained."
Chapelle defends… the indefensible?
Posted: January 3, 2018 in -
Tags: #metoo, abuse, Dave Chapelle, Hollywood, Louis CK, sex scandal
Dave Chappelle's Defense of Louis C.K.
Has Dave lost his mind? Is this quote accurate?
"If the system is corrupt then the people who adhere to the system . . . are not criminals. They are victims."
-Dave Chapelle
Great ironic joke, or terrible, terrible bit of apologetics. The victimizer is equated with the victim BECAUSE HE GOT CAUGHT!
What the fuck are you smoking, Chapelle?
Blame "the system." Everybody's to blame, and nobody's to blame. That "corrupt" system handed Dave tens of millions of dollars, and so let that simmer…
Harvey's Dick & the Democrats
Posted: October 8, 2017 in -
Tags: abuse, Democratic Party, Hollywood, misogyny, political ties, politics, sex scandal, Weinstein, women
Harvey Weinstein is now a big problem for Democrats
Harvey Weinstein has made 185 significant individual donations to a variety of Democratic candidate and liberal-aligned organizations dating back to the early 1990s.
WEINSTEIN URGED CLINTON CAMPAIGN TO SILENCE SANDERS'S BLACK LIVES MATTER MESSAGE
Hey Hillary… what happened?
Depardieu to be Sued Over Role
Tags: assault, case, character attack, charges, defamation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, free speech, Gerard Depardieu, legal, maid, rape, sex, sex scandal, speech, threat, Welcome to New York
Dominique Strauss-Kahn to sue over Gérard Depardieu sex addiction film
Former IMF chief sues over Welcome to New York by Abel Ferrara, which features a sex addict who assaults a hotel maid
The former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has instructed lawyers to sue the makers of a film in which Gérard Depardieu plays a sex addict who sexually assaults a hotel maid.
Welcome to New York by Abel Ferrara, which had a private screening on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival at the weekend and has been on pay-per-view in France, is billed as a piece of fiction and comes with a legal disclaimer.