Dylan Farrow Responds to Woody Allen: 'Distortions and Outright Lies'

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29. So, I suppose, you consider other rehashings of incidents from over two decades ago

to be propelled by people looking for a payday? As for example the rehashings of First Nation child victims of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada, which stretch back two decades and more? I know a lot of people think that way - after all, the Roman Catholic Church has a certain power, a certain gravitas, and a shitload of money.

I know a lot of people think that we shouldn't look back, esp. to events of a decade, two decades, three and more decades ago, in an effort to learn the truth, because that impedes the momentum of the status quo. Yes, a lot of people think like that -- or in any event, they think like that when it's convenient for them, for the status quo that they admire and that they ride to victory on. When preaching to others they change their tune at will.

But that isn't an historian's way of looking at things. Nor is it an ethicist's way of looking at things, and it most certainly isn't a way of looking at things that's compatible with justice.