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Gore Vidal had some pretty horrific commentary about the Polanski rape case if you check his wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Interview_on_his_th...

Huffington Post, as recently as 4 or 5 years ago, were writing articles downplaying Polanski's rape of that girl. There is a surprising strain of Polanski apologism among those who are the first to claim the mantle of feminism.

It's a wired hypocrisy.

I don't think it's an hypocrisy so much as a conservatism to avoid what happened to, oh, Fatty Arbuckle. Or HUAC'ers. This has waned a bit in the wake of Bill Cosby, but I always felt there was a desire to hold onto the greatness of these peoples' art for as long as possible before their reputations were sullied forever. Then again, The Cosby Show is back on TV in reruns, so what do I know.

Yes, nothing to be proud of; but it was a dismissive commentary of something he had no part of, and a culture he had no love for.

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