Before I let go of this subject and let everyone move on with their lives, Laila Lalami's post on Polanski's support adds some more insight(it makes it worse:)
Bernard-Henri Levy, the French philosopher who once said that the Muslim veil was “an invitation to rape,” has now been confronted with an actual case of rape, but appears to think there should be an exception for genius filmmakers. Levy has drafted a petition in defense of Polanski, and it has been signed by Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, and Paul Auster, among others. It is true that Levy has fought against rape—but in regions like Darfur and Bosnia. Now that the perpetrator is in his own backyard, he talks of his outrage as seeing Polanski “apprehended like a common terrorist.”
-not as shocking as the founder of the Feminist Majority saying he should be let go, but still.
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