Morrissey försvarar Kevin Spacey och Harvey Weinstein

Morrissey har sagt något idiotiskt igen.

Vi börjar vänja oss vid det här läget att när Morrissey öppnar käften kan vad som helst hända. Med ett nytt album i ryggen har han inte riktigt gjort någon bra PR för sig själv den här gången, snarare tvärtom.

Det är i en intervju med tyska Spiegel Online som han först rantar lite sedvanligt om Trump och Brexit innan intervjun glider in på #metoo-rörelsen och han ombeds kommentera läget.

To some extent, yes, but then it became a play. All at once everyone is guilty. Anyone who has ever said to someone else, “I like you,” is suddenly being charged with sexual harassment. You have to put these things in the right relations. If I can not tell anyone that I like him, how should he ever know? Of course, there are extreme cases, rape is disgusting, every physical attack is repulsive. But we have to see it in relative terms. Otherwise, every person on this planet is guilty. We can not permanently decide from above what we are allowed to do and what we can not do. Because then we are all trapped. Some people are very awkward when it comes to romance anyway. They do not know what to do and then their behavior is aggressive.

Gällande anklagelserna mot Kevin Spacey yttrar han sig enligt följande:

As far as I know, he was in a bedroom with a 14-year-old. Kevin Spacey was 26 and boy 14 was wondering where the boy’s parents were. One wonders if the boy did not know what could happen. I do not know about you, but I’ve never been in situations like this in my youth. Never. I always knew what could happen. When you are in somebody’s bedroom, you have to be aware of where that can lead to. That’s why it does not sound very credible to me. It seems to me Spacey has been unnecessarily attacked.

Och gällande Weinstein uttrycker han sig så här:

People know exactly what happens. And they play along. Afterward, they feel embarrassed, or they do not like it. And then they turn it around and say: I was attacked, I was surprised, I was dragged into the room. But if everything had gone well and had it given them a great career, they would not talk about it. I hate rape. I hate attacks. I hate sexual situations that are forced on someone. But in many cases, one looks at the circumstances and thinks that the person referred to as a victim is merely disappointed. Throughout the history of music and rock ‘n’ roll there have been musicians who have slept with their groupies. If you go through history, almost everyone is guilty of sleeping with minors.