Very sad: it seems that some VERY famous A-list Hollywood stars are about to fall
These are people we all think of as giants. True giants. Producers, directors, actors. Sleuthe around the Hollywood gossip sites for more. I found what I saw there highly disturbing. If these people fall, it will make Kevin Spacey seem like a no-name Joe and shake the foundations of American cultural life.
Pedophilia accusations.
I pray they are not true and just smears!
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I saw like 5 minutes of it on HBO just to see what people were raving about, it was pretty terrible!
How many billions have they made on this theme while awarding themselves trophies for courage? 
Guess you got a secret and absolutely dependable source, right? 
Such a great source...
about all the sexual predator 'reveals'. Many people across the board, be they Democrat or Republican, are jumping on that judgment wagon as fast as they possibly can, pointing fingers and prescribing punishment.
No question of proof of guilt. If they are named, it must be so.
When people who don't know each other come forward, each with a similar story about sexual abuse, sexual attack or sexual assault from a particular person, I am more inclined to believe them. But, I also won't angrily disavow someone's story out of hand just because they stand alone and I happen to like the person they are accusing. Angry rush to judgment of either the accused or the accuser is ugly and poisons everyone it touches.
We all need to be a lot more careful here. Perceptions matter. A true story of actual abuse is terrible and comes attached to years of pain and damage, much of which may never be healed. A false story of imagined or non-existent abuse hurts the accused as well as those who have bravely come forward, and such a lie, when uncovered, makes it ever harder for their stories to be told and believed. So we should not jump the gun and lend validity to accusations of any kind in public. Until we know a lot more about each one, everybody should be given the benefit of the doubt.
With some, who are self admitted predators like our PINO trump, and some who have had myriad witnesses coming forth, like Moore, it is a little easier to figure out the truth, but it is still not ours to render judgment. We can work against predators, but we don't have to pre-judge them, try them and convict them in the court of public opinion before all the truth has had a chance to be given.
Condemning someone just because they are accused is really not the way to go.
But, I don't know the answer.
What I do know is that we, at least we Liberals, should try to keep from throwing those heavy stones as soon as the word comes down. No need to crucify anyone here. The truth sets us all free and we should be mindful of our words until we are at least closer to the truth than a "She said, He said"
So, IMHO, posting thoughts as innocent seeming as "Should so and so step down?" or "Could this be true?" just adds to the confusion and doubt and often helps to validate a 'mob-like' consciousness. When questions like those are asked, it pretty much presupposes that the person in question is guilty.
And it bothers me that in this PINO trump climate of hate we find ourselves living in, many of us seem to be more and more in lock step with the hateful, angry, judgmental, revenge seeking Vichy GOP, adding to trump's bizzaro dystopian 'circus maximus' reality.
For sure, everyone has a right to their own opinion, but perhaps we should try to be a little more circumspect, a little more cautious before we post our opinions- and the upside is that we will find it much easier to single out the RW trolls.
