WOTD, 10/05/2009

hypocrisy (plural hypocrisies)

1. The claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions or virtues that one does not actually possess.

I thought it was bad enough when Barney Frank said “There is a right to privacy, but not a right to hypocrisy. It is very important that the people who make the law be subject to the law”, because God knows he and his buddy Chris Dodd--among others--have pulled enough fast ones.

Then I saw this one, at Tiny Cat Pants (h/t Tam):

“My personal thoughts are let the guy go,” said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. “It’s bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It’s crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things.”

That post was, er, posted on the First of October. There is now, finally, on the Fifth of October, a statement by the Feminist Majority Foundation's blog that they think that Polanski was naughty and should be punished, but that they and even Yorkin think rape is bad, so don't do it, m'kay? Even if Yorkin thinks that Polanski has gotten over it by now. Or something. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

If it's wrong, it's wrong. Certain circumstances make it wrong-er. Generally speaking, a 13 year old who is drugged and sodomized, and struggles the whole time, makes it about as wrong as it can be. And these cretins want to let him go because he has suffered enough?

And then some big-shot Hollywood producer shoots off his mouth to the effect that Hollywood has a superior moral compass because they have compassion?

See, this is why I don't understand people who object to capital punishment: Some filth just does not deserve to live.