{"id":426549,"date":"2022-04-04T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spare-me-hollywoods-nauseating-hypocrisy-over-will-smith\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:55:58","slug":"spare-me-hollywoods-nauseating-hypocrisy-over-will-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spare-me-hollywoods-nauseating-hypocrisy-over-will-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"#Spare me Hollywood\u2019s nauseating hypocrisy over Will Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a89897085\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a89897085\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spare-me-hollywoods-nauseating-hypocrisy-over-will-smith\/#%E2%80%9CSpare_me_Hollywoods_nauseating_hypocrisy_over_Will_Smith%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Spare me Hollywood\u2019s nauseating hypocrisy over Will Smith&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSpare_me_Hollywoods_nauseating_hypocrisy_over_Will_Smith%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Spare me Hollywood\u2019s nauseating hypocrisy over Will Smith&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Piers Morgan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHollywood,\u201d said Marilyn Monroe, \u201cis a place where they pay you $1000 for a kiss but 50 cents for your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are few better illustrations of Tinsel Town\u2019s warped morality than the shocking case of acclaimed film director Roman Polanski who was 44 when he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He admitted unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but before he received his full sentence, he fled America in 1978 and has never returned to face justice for his despicable crime.<\/p>\n<p>Now, given Hollywood\u2019s current fit of faux-indignant moral rage over Will Smith\u2019s slap to Chris Rock\u2019s face, and its frantic effort to cancel him off the face of the acting planet, you might assume that it reacted with far greater fury and disgust to someone who abused and sodomized a young girl after plying her with quaaludes.<\/p>\n<p>But you would be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Hollywood carried on hiring Polanski to direct <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> from his European exile, and in 2003, it awarded him the Oscar for Best Director at the Academy Awards for his work on The Pianist.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he wasn\u2019t there to receive it in person, or he would have been arrested and sent to prison to serve his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, his friend Harrison Ford announced Polanski\u2019s victory, without explaining why he wasn\u2019t there, and said: \u201cThe Academy congratulates Roman Polanski and accepts this award on his behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Ford later presented the Oscar in person to a thrilled Polanski at his French home.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-rock.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hollywood has no business condemning Will Smith for his Oscar night slap of Chris Rock after supporting people like Roman Polanski.\" class=\"wp-image-21776542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-rock.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-rock.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-rock.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hollywood has no business condemning Will Smith for his Oscar night slap of Chris Rock after supporting people like Roman Polanski.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Brian Snyder\/File Photo\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And with that, the star-studded audience burst into spontaneous cheering and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lause, then many leaped to their feet to give the fugitive pedophile a prolonged standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>They included a wildly excited Meryl Streep, a beaming Martin Scorcese and a whistling Jack Nicholson \u2014 at whose house Polanski\u2019s sickening rape had taken place, while Nicholson was away.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/02\/29\/polanski-wins-best-director-at-frances-oscars-sparks-protests\">continued making movies<\/a> and stars like Sigourney Weaver, Johnny Depp, Jodie Foster, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Kate Winslet have all happily worked with him.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, when Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a warrant for his 1977 crime, more than 100 people in the Hollywood film industry including Woody Allen, David Lynch and Jonathan Demme signed a petition demanding his im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te release.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/roman-polanski-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Director Roman Polanksi fled the country in 1978 after being accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.\" class=\"wp-image-21776563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/roman-polanski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/roman-polanski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/roman-polanski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Director Roman Polanksi fled the country in 1978 after being accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Charles Platiau\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Astonishingly, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/05\/03\/movie-academy-expels-bill-cosby-and-roman-polanksi\/\">Polanski remained a member of the Academy until 2018,<\/a> when public pressure sparked by the #MeToo campaign finally forced Hollywood to pretend it had morals.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, the board of governors \u2014 many of whom are now expressing their horror at The Slap \u2014 saw no reason to remove him from its membership which is hardly surprising when you learn that among their number is Whoopi Goldberg who said of Polanski\u2019s conviction: \u201cI know it wasn\u2019t rape-rape. It was something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, Whoopi, it was most definitely \u201crape-rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of a child.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?w=719\" alt=\"Polanski continued to make films with Hollywood stars and even won an Oscar for Best Director in 2003.\" class=\"wp-image-21776575\" width=\"301\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=599 602w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=449 451w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=301 301w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=150 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/FRANCE-POLANSKI-OSCAR.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\"\/><figcaption>Polanski continued to make films with Hollywood stars and even won an Oscar for Best Director in 2003.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA PHOTO\/SIPA\/NIVIERE.BENAROCH<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, spare me Hollywood\u2019s sudden moral seizure over Will Smith slapping a guy for mocking his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to condone the violence, which I don\u2019t, to understand why he suddenly lost his head when he thought (wrongly) that Rock was deliberately taunting the woman he loves over her distressing alopecia hair loss condition.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who had until then had enjoyed a magnificently unblemished career as one of the industry\u2019s nice guys, has since shown genuine regret and contrition for his over-emotional actions, but that\u2019s not cutting any ice with his peer group who are howling for him to be professionally burned at the stake.<\/p>\n<p>And frankly, there is nothing more nauseating than watching Hollywood now work itself into a lather of plastic offence when you consider how its immediate reaction to what happened was to hand Smith the Best Oscar award half an hour later and give him a noisy Polanski-like standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when it was pointed out that this seemed like rank hypocrisy from a community that constantly seeks to take the moral high ground on the \u201cinappropriate\u201d behavior of people like Donald Trump, that Hollywood swung into full condemnation and cancel mode.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it wasn\u2019t enough that Smith resigned from the Academy himself just days after the incident, nor that he\u2019s issued several groveling apologies to Rock himself, who didn\u2019t know about Jada\u2019s alopecia and was therefore an innocent victim of the ugly episode who deserves great credit for keeping his cool.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Smith later apologized and resigned from the Academy.\" class=\"wp-image-21776592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/will-smith-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Smith later apologized and resigned from the Academy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s now a concerted effort to destroy Smith\u2019s career, with companies like Netflix and Apple reportedly moving fast to distance themselves from the troubled star \u2014 it\u2019s particularly ironic that none of the woke brigade seems to give a damn about his obvious mental health issues \u2014 by putting projects they have with him \u201con the back burner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Hollywood can\u2019t fool me with this absurdly disingenuous sudden outbreak of faux ethical concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woody Allen ran off with and later married his wife Mia Farrow\u2019s adopted daughter Soon-Yi and was then accused of repeatedly sexually abusing his own adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was just seven years old.<\/p>\n<p>He still works in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Gibson beat up his girlfriend and told her, \u201cYou look like a f\u2013king pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n\u2014-rs, it will be your fault.\u201d On another occasion, he said: \u201cF\u2013king Jews\u2026 The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He still works in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/harvey-weinstein-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hollywood has allowed people like convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein to work for years.\" class=\"wp-image-21776601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/harvey-weinstein-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/harvey-weinstein-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/harvey-weinstein-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hollywood has allowed people like convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein to work for years.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Seth Wenig, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harvey Weinstein won an Oscar \u2014 and his company won 81 of them \u2014 but hasn\u2019t had it rescinded since his exposure as a vile sexual predator.<\/p>\n<p>And so unedifyingly on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that Hollywood wouldn\u2019t know morality if it was slapped around its collective two faces.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve seen with Disney pretending to care about LGBT rights in Florida, whilst streaming content to countries where homosexuality is illegal, its only real concern is money and laughable virtue-signaling.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the campaign to cancel Will Smith is so pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>If Hollywood wants to cancel anyone for failing to meet its moral standard, it should start with itself.\n                        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