His photographs – particularly his X Portfolio with its delight in sadomasochism – were demonised as a vile assault on decency, instead of the beautiful and sublime images they are.
But what gets all the attention – a TV fantasy drama, set in faraway magic lands, featuring a vile assault that was nonetheless conducted mainly off-screen, and was entirely in character for the perpetrator?
However vile his assault, however arrogant his unremorseful stance, even a rapist such as Ched Evans deserves the chance of rehabilitation and should not be punished twice for the same offence.
There are plenty of memorable scenes – Durocher dressing down Dodgers who signed a petition against playing with Robinson, Phillies manager Ben Chapman's vile verbal assault, Pee Wee Reese putting his arm around Robinson to calm a raging Cincinnati crowd – even Ralph Branca asking Jackie to take a shower with him (lot's of laughs in the theater).
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, called the attacks "heinous, evil" and "vile" and "an assault on our common humanity".
While I don't believe in 'trial by social media', I do believe in winding your bloody neck in when the thing you're most renowned for is a vile, violent, inexcusable assault on the person you're supposed to love, rather than repeatedly behaving like an obnoxious idiot and then making out you're just so bafflingly oppressed by 'haterz'haterz
This was the memory that sprung to mind when I first heard about the death of Shaima Alawadi, as I wondered when she first heard the same vile refrain that assaulted me on the playground over 20 years ago.
(After the "Access Hollywood" tape emerged, in early October, Romney tweeted, "Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world").
I recently posted a news article to Facebook that questioned the integrity of a candidate which prompted an assault of vile responses from both sides.
This case points to the ever-growing evidence that there is a worrying link between looking at this vile kind of material and committing serious sexual assaults".
"This case points to the ever-growing evidence that there is a worrying link between looking at this vile kind of material and committing other serious sexual assaults.
