Hollywood Pouts Because We Won’t Applaud It
Here, folks, is your quote of the day.
In an interview, ]Movie mogul Harvey] Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He’s not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” Weinstein said. “We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.”
In other words, “Hey, you backwards rubes! We raised money for your stinking 9/11 thing, so back off!”
Or, as Patterico puts it, “He makes great movies, so why not let him drug and sodomize a scared child? After all, you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs . . . or make mediocre movies without anally raping drunk and drugged 13-year-olds.”
It’s also interesting to me that Weinstein equates morals with compassion. They are not the same thing. Justice, based on a clear set of morals, usually has nothing whatever to do with compassion. Compassion is what happens after justice has been delivered and is usually based on some sign from the guilty party that they feel a sense of remorse for what they did. If Roman Polanski has ever felt sorry for what he did, he’s never once showed it.
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