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Alec Baldwin went on a rant where he seemed to be defending Woody Allen and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo while bashing “cancel culture,” according to Fox News.
“I think my last message went on too long. What I was saying is that I think that the cancel culture is getting out of hand,” Baldwin says. “There are people that deserve to be punished for what they have done but not everybody should be punished in the same way… Not everybody should be punished in the same way. Even the criminal justice system recognizes that.”
“I deleted the other message because you go on and on and on and try to explain things and it doesn’t make any difference. Anyway, I think cancel culture is creating more problems than it solves. It’s like trolling. It’s like a giant mile-long net and you’re catching a lot of people, many of them deserve it and a few of them, more than a few, who don’t. Or they don’t’ deserve to have their careers and their lives destroyed.”
Baldwin expressed hes tired of catching criticism for defending people that the public has “canceled” that have not been proven guilty in a courtroom.
In his rant, Baldwin expressed that he doesn’t “care how many f—ing documentaries you make,” noting that critics “have to prove it in a courtroom.”
“They haven’t been proven guilty. I don’t care how many Pulitzer Prize-winning authors say otherwise.”
“The Attorney General is going to investigate accusations against a Governor. Then, and only then, can we talk about people resigning,” he said referring to Governor Cuomo.
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Elsewhere in the video, Baldwin notes that he believes the coronavirus pandemic has helped ramp up cancel culture advocates given that people have more time on their hands to go online. He also asserted that, if any of the people he’s currently defending were proven guilty in a court of law, he would gladly stop supporting them and offer an apology to the alleged victims.
Allen has been the subject of two separate investigations since Farrow first claimed that he molested her as a child came out in the 1990s. Neither resulted in any charges against him.
