Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein and the Lies that Powerful Men Tell
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This week, the former film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted on two counts of sexual assault in a New York court. Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than ninety women, has become an emblem of misogyny in Hollywood, and of the systems that protect wealthy and powerful men from the consequences of criminal misconduct. Rebecca Solnit joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss whether the Weinstein verdict is a turning point in the #MeToo movement, and what it takes to expose the lies of those in power in business and politics.
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| 1:11.7 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about |
| 1:16.6 | politics. It's Thursday, February 27th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:24.2 | This week, the former film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted in a New York court of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third degree rape. |
| 1:33.3 | Weinstein has been accused by more than 90 women of sexual harassment, assault, or rape, and he has become an emblem of how men with money and power are protected sometimes over decades from the consequences |
| 1:45.8 | of their misdeeds. He'll be sentenced on March 11th and faces between five and 29 years in prison. |
| 1:53.4 | He is also facing several felony charges and trial in a Los Angeles court. If convicted, he could |
| 1:59.5 | face up to another 28 years in prison. |
| 2:03.2 | Weinstein continues to claim that he's entirely innocent, and last week in an interview with |
| 2:08.1 | the Times, Donna Rotano, the lawyer leading Weinstein's defense team, attempted to shift |
| 2:13.6 | blame from her client to his accusers. So that notion that he could hurt people's careers, I absolutely find ridiculous. |
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