Why isn't Hollywood turning against Harvey Weinstein?

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Hollywood is a moral cesspool. The casting couch that many consider a myth is all too real. Starlet and harlot do more than rhyme as words.

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Hollywood is a moral cesspool.

I've always thought that Hollywood and Washington have a lot in common

Government agencies seem to be honest enough, at least for now, although Donald Trump is doing his damnedest to make the Government reflect his scummy personality.

Joke:

Do you know what the crookedest streets in America are?

Michigan Avenue, Detroit -- America's Sodom and Gomorrah

Madison Avenue, New York (advertising)

Wall Street, New York (high finance)

K Street, Washington DC (lobbying, the real power in America)

the Las Vegas Strip.   

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What Polanski has done is worse and Hollywood keeps working with him and giving him (undeserved) awards.

We can question whether a person of his record should be eligible for Academy Awards at all, but if you were referring specifically to "the Pianist", then you are wrong.

It's the perennial debate about art and the artist. Polanski is a horrible man, but he makes good films quite regularly. Woody Allen is a horrible man, but he makes good films as well (once or twice every decade or so.) Does a work of art cease to be appreciable simply because of who made it?

A question also fitting Richard Wagner, who was a thoroughly-awful person. Or Carlo Gesualdo, a Renaissance composer who murdered a man that his wife was cheating with -- and his wife.

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Abuse of power happens when the powerful people learn that they can get away with anything because people comply with the demands just for survival, which includes enduring the initial abuse and covering up for those who abuse power. There are campaign contributions to be made. High-profile careers can be broken. At the extreme (with organized crime and dictatorial regimes) someone who runs afoul of the rich-and-powerful might be killed.

We wanted a black sports star who acted like a white guy after his athletic career was over. We got O J Simpson. We wanted a black comedian who kept his language clean, someone we could laugh with instead of laugh at. We got Bill Cosby. We wanted cinematic masterpieces to enjoy indefinitely. We got Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein. Many of us wanted someone as President who would cut down liberal elites with contempt for PC values and with respect for the superstitious, vulnerable, and especially for white people being treated badly. We got Donald Trump.   
 

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Regrettably, much of what goes on in America sounds like either stories from the National Enquirer, dystopias out of science-fiction novels, and bad spy novels.

Dostoevsky, anyone? Dickens? Kundera?