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This was before cancel culture, metoo and whatnot. People are a lot more sensitive now. He had served his sentence (even if in retrospect it was ridiculously li
by version_five 3y ago
This was before cancel culture, metoo and whatnot. People are a lot more sensitive now. He had served his sentence (even if in retrospect it was ridiculously light). The fact that so many different people associated with him is evidence that obviously it wasn't in any way culturally unacceptable at the time.
- HarryHirsch 3y ago"I'm sorry, I cannot comment on the matter until it has been officially hushed up."
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- Teever 3y agoI'm pretty sure ostracizing sex criminals was common place before 2016.
- exolymph 3y agoElite* social norms are different, not always in a good way. Consider the many illustrious defenders of Roman Polanski. *I know this word gets overused but here it is apropos.
- version_five 3y agoOr they (elite social norms) are just more public. It's easy to hate on public figures for their transgressions. If it's friends or family members, there's probably more nuance. But we judge looking in from the outside. The guy was obviously super questionable in his business dealings, and an active sex offender - but I think that's in hindsight, and a lot of the dealings are more a question of people getting taken in by a professional confidence man than anything else.