57: 'This is becoming a sexual Salem'
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🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the Harvey Weinstein hysteria, Luke Gittos on why ISIS’s White Widow deserved to die, and Ceri Dingle on WORLDwrite’s new documentary, 1917: Why the Russian Revolution Matters. spiked-online.com
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Welcome to the Spiked Podcast, I'm Ella Wheeling, |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Spiked Podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Ella Wheeling, assistant editor at Spiked and on this week's podcast I talked to Brendan O'Neill about the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal, Luke Gitos about the death of ISIS's white widow, and Kerry Dingell about a new film to celebrate the Russian Revolution. It's been over two weeks since the New York Times published its expose on former Hollywood |
| 0:50.5 | mogul Harvey Weinstein. The piece revealed sexual harassment allegations dating back to the 90s |
| 0:55.6 | including eight financial settlements between different women and Weinstein. |
| 1:00.0 | Since then, it's best to describe what's happened as a frenzy. |
| 1:04.0 | Following an initial silence among movie stars, |
| 1:07.0 | actress after actress has come out and stated that she was in some way harassed by Weinstein. |
| 1:12.0 | Following that, a social media campaign sharing the hashtag, Me Too, called on women all over the world to raise awareness of how common sexual harassment supposedly is by sharing this hashtag. Now no doubt |
| 1:25.2 | how V Weinstein was a creep and according to recent allegations he quite |
| 1:29.3 | possibly is a criminal but what should we make of the hysteria surrounding him because it has become |
| 1:36.3 | bigger than Weinstein? |
| 1:37.7 | And is it possible that this is yet another moral panic masquerading as a feminist campaign. To discuss this I spoke to spiked editor |
| 1:45.8 | Brendan O'Neill in New York. So Brendan both you and I have written about the Weinstein |
| 1:51.4 | scandal. It happened and it came out about two weeks ago. It happened and it came out about two weeks ago. |
| 1:56.0 | And since then, it has just been spiraling and spiraling out of control. |
| 2:00.0 | It seems like every day another person comes out and says that they were |
| 2:04.1 | either ashamed of Weinstein or that Weinstein did something to them whether that be |
| 2:08.4 | standing to close to them the lift right up to very serious allegations of rape now. What is going on? |
| 2:15.8 | I think it is definitely a form of hysteria. I'm really surprised at how quickly it has taken |
| 2:21.9 | hold of the kind of media and collective imagination |
| 2:26.0 | as this real symbol of evil. |
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