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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I’m not saying it excuses his actions at all - only that of all the monstrous people who are the topic of this thread, I don’t view Polanski quite the same because none of them survived the Holocaust only to have the Manson family kill their wife and unborn child - I don’t think it’s possible to have that life experience and not be a shattered husk of a human being.
I feel bad for him. I feel bad for the girl. I feel bad for everyone touched by that situation.
I don’t feel bad for Mel Gibson or James Woods or Roseanne Barr, or Bill Cosby.
Call me a monster if you must.
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not calling you a monster. just disagreeing with you that he deserves empathy for his rape because of his past. If he was that shattered of a husk of a human being you'd have think we'd know about other ways he acted out his trauma and have difficulty functioning.
I think he is an opportunistic predator, like many others in that time period. Worse though, as he didn't have consent.
but yeah. I'm not going to go on about it for 3 days. Although it is hard to believe how ok it seems to have been back in the 60's and especially the 70's to have sex with kids. Probably not a lot of rock stars I could still listen to if what they were up to came out.