Witch Hunt is an exaggeration...but new McCarthism?
Nobody is denying that Hollywood is a bad place full of bad people.
The problem is that accusations alone are enough to destroy innocent lives and careers.
Look, he's a commie! Let's ruin his career and life! But we have no proof! Who fucking cares, this will scare the real commies too.
Look, he's a rapist! Let's ruin his career and life! But we have no proof! But this will scare the real rapists too...
When multiple women who don't know each other tell similar stories about sexual assault and indecent encounters with actors, that can then be corroborated by people who heard these same stories decades ago, I think it goes beyond random allegations. You seem to care more about the lives of wealthy Hollywood stars supposedly being ruined than the lives of these women who were assaulted decades ago and didn't have any power to do anything about it except - in many cases - internalize it as the actions being their own fault.
It's the equivalent of that Dave Chappelle skit posted earlier in this thread. I don't know what sort of evidence a 16 year old high schooler can bring to show Dustin Hoffman dropped his towel in front of her and then proceeded to make those statements. Should she have been carrying an audio recorder on her? A spy camera? Or can we be decent and take the fact that she told friends about this encounter a few years later as truth, especially when other women have echoed similar patterns of behavior regarding Hoffman?