In Hollywood, why does saying bigoted things seem to be more detrimental to your career than committing actual crimes?
This gets pointed out a lot as a double standard but I'm curious if anyone knows WHY it is this way?
For example Mike Tyson was convicted for rape and later went on to do movies and currently has a TV show.
David O. Russell gropes his transgender niece and has been incredibly abusive to his actors.
Bill Murray's wife divorced him because she claimed he was a wife beater and he never denied it.
Amy Schumer (according to her and many others' own definition of rape) raped a guy in college
And of course there's the most obvious Roman Polanski example. The only reason Hollywood hasn't welcomed him with open arms is because the American government won't allow it. If he was allowed into the country again I guarantee they would act like he never did anything wrong.
The media doesn't care about any of these people. Their careers are all really good right now. But if you ever say something bigoted, the media jumps all over it and your career is either severely hurt or effectively over at that point. I'm not saying it's okay to drop n-bombs but I don't understand why it gets you so much more hatred than actually raping or killing people, or any other crime that causes a lot of harm.
Posted Feb 21, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC