Don't worry, I get it—everyone and especially their mother believes Woody molested his own adopted daughter, and it just so happens that Hachette is the same publishing company that released the book Catch and Kill by none other than slayer-of-male-predators Ronan Farrow (about his slaying of Harvey Weinstein), who of course is Woody's son with Mia Farrow and the brother-by-adoption of Dylan Farrow, the alleged molestee, whose claims he's loudly and staunchly supported for years.
In other words, this was at the very least a questionable business move on Hachette's part (though I would gently encourage anyone utterly convinced it was, well, a morally revolting one to give this a read—and yes, I'm shocked, befuddled and a little revolted myself by this bizarro turn of finding myself actually recommending a post on a conservative website).
That said, it just seems to me like there are bigger issues in the world for people to be staging dramatic walk-outs about. And I have to mostly agree with the things Stephen King said about this on Twitter, as follows:
The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy. It's not him; I don't give a damn about Mr. Allen. It's who gets muzzled next that worries me.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 6, 2020
If you think he's a pedophile, don't buy the book. Don't go to his movies. Don't go listen to him play jazz at the Carlyle. Vote with your wallet...by withholding it. In America, that's how we do. https://t.co/znGZu0wJEF— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 7, 2020
Let me add that it was fucking tone-deaf of Hachette to want to publish Woody Allen’s book after publishing Ronan Farrow’s.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 7, 2020
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