But he also said he hadn’t “done anything Illegal”
Casuistry is the last refuge of scoundrels.
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and so many of the outed men have managed to actually admit to wrongdoing???
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But Franco apologized to Violet Paley, or admitted that he shouldn’t have done what he did. But it wasn’t “illegal.” A thing can be horribly wrong, but not illegal in the United States.
Denying the holocaust is not illegal. Calling a woman a whore in a crowded theater is not illegal. A range of abusive and harassing behaviors are not criminal. And lot of borderline date-rapey behavior is in a gray area of legality- and that’s what Franco is arguing.
He shouldn’t be allowed to move the argument there from where it should be. His behavior is wrong and social consequences should be imposed. I’ve come to appreciate him as an actor over the last few months, as I had not before. It gives me no pleasure to see him in this situation, but he needs to fully admit and not hide behind the lawyers hiding behind the law.
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Post deleted for factual error.
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The difficulty is that the U.S. prides itself on all its Freedoms. The only way to stop ‘bad’ behavior is if it can be shown to be illegal. On the whole – not including specific subgroups like the Amish or even some industries – we don’t shun people. We sue them.
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To be fair, this obsession is something we learned from our common law father.
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You are more right than I had realised. It seems neither country wins in the global litigation stakes.
US - 1 lawyer per 300 people
UK - 1 lawyer per 401 people
D - 1 lawyer for every 593 people.
So it’s Germany that has half the lawyers per head of the US.
But now this:
D 123 cases per 1000 people
US 74.5/1000
UK 64.4/1000
Thus Germans are far more litigious than Americans, but each German lawyer gets through far more cases - roughly 3.25 times as many as the average US lawyer. This probably reflects the way the German legal system was rewritten to be simple and clear after WW2. English lawyers are slightly more efficient than US ones.
So…wrong again. Ah well, that’s the fault of listening to anecdote not data (which are from https://www.clements.com/sites/default/files/resources/The-Most-Litigious-Countries-in-the-World.pdf)
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Rumours about Aziz popped up on leftie Twitter several months ago, BTW. Well before the Golden Globes.
It was why @Freeyourmindkid changed his Twitter display name from “Black Aziz Ansari” to “Black Aziz Anansi”.
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Lindy West has the best take on this story. I <3 Lindy West SO HARD!
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“I’ve been coming for you for a long time,” Stephens told Nassar. “Perhaps you have figured it out by now, but little girls don’t stay little forever. They turn into strong women, who have come back to destroy your world.
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A total of 105 women are expected to testify on their sexual abuse. This morning on day 3, the judge got a letter from Larry Nassar asking the testimony stop. He wrote: “I’m very concerned about my ability to be able to face witnesses the next four days, mentally.”
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I cannot believe this asshole. “It’s too hard to listen to the shit I actually did.” Wow.
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I find it ironic that that gif was linked and not shown because it’s too large.
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A strange way to spell “incompetent” as applied to the gif creator.
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It’s a yif. Better linked than shown. Unfortunately there are also nimated pngs now.
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