New CA 'diversity and inclusion' chief: Weinstein's victims knew what they were doing

The state’s new diversity, equity, and inclusion guru Kevin E. Hooks said that the women who came forward to say they were forced to have sex with Weinstein were willfully choosing to trade sex for job opportunities in the film industry. “I want to have an uncomfortable conversation,” Hooks said on a Sept. 2018 episode of his CEOLife podcast. “If you call my sister, or my niece, or some of the women I grew up with, up to a hotel suite to have a ‘business meeting,’ and you open the door in a bathrobe, it’s not not going to end like some of these ended.”

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Hooks, who on Jan. 17 was tapped to serve as the California Justice Department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, said Weinstein’s victims chose to subject themselves to the disgraced Hollywood producer’s assaults.

“What’s the psychology,” Hooks said, “that separates a women’s Spidey-Senses from going, ‘I’m not going in there,’ to [doing] the cost-benefit analysis of, ‘But this is my opportunity to get a job, and I’ve been in this industry for 20 years, toiling away, waiting tables on the side, and I finally get an invitation to Mecca.'”

[In fairness, that point of view does amount to “diversity” … of a sort. Very few people would say that out loud or even think it, then or now. And for good reason, because it’s an idiotic statement to make. I wonder how much longer Hooks will remain in this job. — Ed]

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