Salma Hayek: Weinstein only responded to sexual harassment allegations from women of color...

[DonViejo]

Salma Hayek: Weinstein only responded to sexual harassment allegations from women of color because they are 'the easiest to get discredited'

BY LUIS SANCHEZ - 05/13/18 04:13 PM EDT

Actress Salma Hayek said former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein only responded to sexual harassment allegations from her and actress Lupita N’yongo because women of color are "the easiest to get discredited."

“He only responded to two women, to women of color,” Hayek told Vanity Fair at the Cannes Film Festival this week. “It was a strategy by the lawyers because we are the easiest to get discredited.”

“It is a well-known fact that if you are a woman of color, people believe in you less and believe what you say less. Hayek added. “So, he went back, attacking the two women of color … if he could discredit us, which would be easier for the audience, the readers to not believe us, he could then maybe discredit the rest.”

Hayek wrote an essay in The New York Times in December that accused Weinstein of sexual harassment during the making of the film “Frida.”

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[SummerSnow]

1. Interesting.

[CrispyQ]

2. I've seen how women of color are treated on the bus compared to me & I believe it. -nt

[HipChick]

4. Interesting...Do you say anything

or just remain an observer?

[lunasun]

3. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

5. I knew he was a fucking pig,

Now he is a mother fucking asshole too.

[fleabiscuit]

7. Where in that article did she tell Williams to stop whining? nt

[JI7]

8. Others had commented on this and it does appear to be a strategy