‘For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough,’ the actor shared on X

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    9911 days ago

    Crazy how Spacey’s career abruptly ended, even though he was acquitted and/or found not guilty. Yet Trump, who has lost his civil sexual assault cases, is the fucking president of the United States and no one will do anything about it.

    • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Spacey would still be making movies now if he’d just preyed on vulnerable women instead.

      Dustin Hoffman, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ryan Seacrest all have multiple SA allegations that they were able to play down and keep working, but those were all from women.

      Most homophobia stems from the fear of male rape, so the usual meninist/MRA crowd who scrambled to defend “innocent until proven guilty” for Russell Brand (3 upcoming producer credits) are nowhere to be seen when it’s Spacey.

      (for clarity, this is not a defense of Spacey, it’s an attack on hypocrisy)

    • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      2311 days ago

      yes, it is revealing how flexible the conservative soul is when it comes to corruption and perversion, while simultaneously being inflexible about things like compassion, charity and kindness.

    • @Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      911 days ago

      probably the severity, and the amount of people he targeted, plus anthony rapps “confession” about him being targeted by spacey. Also movies/shows dont want to be associated with a known pedophile too, so they wouldnt cast him anything anyways.

      • @crapwittyname@feddit.uk
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        711 days ago

        Why though? Why is it assumed that people will boycott a show/movie if it has a known paedophile in it, while brands/political parties with a mass-sex-offender at the helm are just peachy?

      • @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2011 days ago

        Not guilty isn’t the same thing as “didnt do it”

        From Wikipedia:

        Fifteen others then came forward alleging similar abuse,[10] including Boston anchorwoman Heather Unruh, who alleged that Spacey sexually assaulted her son;[11][12] filmmaker Tony Montana; actor Roberto Cavazos;[13] Richard Dreyfuss’ son Harry;[14] and eight people who worked on House of Cards.[15] The Guardian was contacted by “a number of people” who alleged that Spacey “groped and behaved in an inappropriate way with young men” as artistic director of The Old Vic theatre.


        A judge in Los Angeles this summer approved an arbitrator’s decision to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of “House of Cards” for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.

        Yeah he’s still a creep/sex pest, just not a child abuser. As far as we know.