[lbo-talk] Polanski

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Sep 30 10:48:20 PDT 2009


"The French seem to have some notion of droit de seigneur at work, even if such a thing is fictitious."

Really? That would be interesting to know. My french isn't up to reading the newspapers. I would have guessed that the French view would be nationalistic anti-Americanism, of the 'you can't trust the US courts' variety. But I can imagine that, with that national difference factored in they might see it as a case of common American trollop pulling down a high cultural figure.

Still, seeing that it has became compulsory in British schools to perform the works of the Michael Jackson, European tolerance of high-profile US pederasts is surprisingly broad.



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