In a comment thread following an 11.29.24 piece about an English-subtitled Russian Bluray of Roman Polanski‘s An Officer and a Spy (“#MeToo Suppressionists Are Powerless In This Regard“), the redoubtable Clemmy wrote, “If you financially support a child rapist, you do not care about your granddaughter’s future.”

HE response to Clemmy: “While most many intelligent people support the cinematic art of the obviously gifted and indisputably great Roman Polanski, HE does not and never has supported the notion that anyone proven guilty of sexual abuse or assault should skate. Crimes of the loins have penalties. Nobody’s disputing this.

“Then again are you telling me that Polanski hasn’t been made to suffer and submit to the proverbial lash for the last 47 [now 48] years?

“Are you telling me that Polanski’s kids, Morgane and Elvis, live in a state of perpetual fear about what their allegedly monstrous dad might do to them?

“We’re talking about two twains here, two separate boxes.

“History is flooded with accounts of great artists who didn’t behave well at certain points in their lives, or who behaved abusively or with cruelty toward this or that person. Isolated incidents, I mean.

“Enlightened art scholars have long argued and understood that at the end of the day you can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

“#MeToo ideologues will never understand or accept this.”