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Hello, hi. Welcome to Red Handed Shorthand where you can get all of the stuff that makes you sound

really smart in half an hour or less. Like a weekly vitamin for your brain. Exactly. You're welcome.

And today we are talking about Megapido Roman Polanski. Yeah boo. He's an notoriously polarizing

figure. In fact, he's more well known for being polarizing than he is for being quite literally

anything else. But why is the Polish director such a figure of debate? We all know that he's

a wrong and he makes people feel uncomfortable. But what is it exactly that he did? And if it's so

bad, why do some people, some very high profile people, continue to support him? Most of us know

the basics. Roman Polanski is a director and an exiled pedophile. That is a fact. He's never lost

the die hard support of almost all of the Hollywood establishment. But in order to understand why he's

exiled and why so many people would choose to support someone who's committed such disgusting acts,

we need some context. Welcome to shorthand. Firstly, he survived just about the worst upbringing

conceivable. Polanski was brought up in Krakow in the mid-1930s. As a young Jewish boy in wartime

Poland, Polanski was subjected to a lot. He was excluded from school at the age of six and forced

into the Krakow ghetto by seven. By the age of ten, he'd watched both his mother and his father

be dragged away by the Nazi genocide machine. Do you know where else had a Jewish ghetto that you

might not expect? Is it Birmingham, Alabama? No, it's Venice. Oh, yeah. I mean, I suppose it

makes sense because it's quite isolated, obviously, and Italy was an ally and fascist. But yeah, I had no

idea. I think I learned that when I watched Stanley Tucci's Taste of Italy or whatever that show

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