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"The accusation against [Woody Allen] is horrific, but it comes from a single person who was very young at the time; came in the most crucial and intense moments of a brutal divorce and custody battle; was not affirmed by either the Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Clinic or New York Social Services after months-long investigations from both; has been consistently rejected by Dylan Farrow’s sibling Moses Farrow, who was in the house at the time of the alleged incident; and which Allen has vehemently denied. There is simply no objective way to suggest that the allegations against Allen are remotely as convincing as those against [Mike] Tyson. And yet the latter gets to serve as a cuddly symbol of 1980s athletic excellence and 21st-century comedy, while the former lost his Amazon deal, saw his films removed from several streaming services, was denounced by dozens or hundreds of eminent Hollywood figures, and in general was made persona non grata in polite society. The contrast, to me, does not compute in basic moral or procedural terms." - Freddie deBoer