It is really something to see how effective it is to link punishing sexual misconduct to the need to pursue a higher goal.
It’s people defending Louis CK and Cosby with the idea that the future of what is possible to joke about is at stake.
It’s people defending Polanski, Woody Allen and even Weinstein with the idea that the future of quality cinema is at stake.
It’s people defending priests and ministers with the idea that the future of the good name of a church is at stake.
And now it’s Agamben pushing the idea that we have to whistle past Assange’s behavior because otherwise Google somehow wins, based on an “according to Assange”.
There’s always a big idea ready to protect such stupid personal cruelties.
