I think you might be letting Whoopi off the hook too easily. She claims that Polanski didn’t force himself on the girl, so it wasn’t rape rape. Of course that was the reason for drugging the girl, which must make it less bad in Whoopi’s eyes.
Yes, maybe I did let Whoopi off the hook for her strange comments on the case. You would think that even liberals would be shocked that he drugged a 13 year old girl so he could rape her more easily. But, crickets are what we hear from the liberals.
Worse still, Goldberg stated in her one way that age of consent is malleable concept. One with which she was comfortable in lowering even as young as 13.
“We’re a different kind of society, we see things differently ... would I want my 14-year-old having sex with somebody? Not necessarily, no.”