{"id":1834171,"date":"2023-02-03T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834171"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:14:00","slug":"california-diversity-chief-says-harvey-weinstein-victims-knew-what-they-were-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-diversity-chief-says-harvey-weinstein-victims-knew-what-they-were-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"California Diversity Chief Says Harvey Weinstein Victims Knew What They Were Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-diversity-chief-says-harvey-weinstein-victims-knew-what-they-were-doing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Kevin E. Hooks also mocked Bill Cosby&#8217;s drugging and rape of women in California Justice Department Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Kevin E. Hooks\/ Vimeo    <\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s attorney general tapped the man to head his diversity and inclusion agency. The man said that Harvey Weinstein victims knew what they were doing and that he sympathized and supported Bill Cosby in his rape trial. It is now that #MeToo advocates need to sacrifice innocent men.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin E. Hooks is the state&#8217;s diversity, equity and inclusion guru. He stated that the women who said they were forced into having sex with Weinstein had made the decision to trade sex for jobs in the film industry. &#8220;I want to have an uncomfortable conversation,&#8221; Hooks stated on Sept. 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yaKS2nGN3pM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode<\/a> His <em>CEOLife<\/em> podcast. &#8220;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 &#8216;business meeting,&#8217; and you open the door in a bathrobe, it&#8217;s not not going to end like some of these ended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hooks, who on January 17 was <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-bonta-announces-hiring-california-department-justice%E2%80%99s-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tapped<\/a> Weinstein&#8217;s victims chose Weinstein&#8217;s sexual assaults, and he was named the California Justice Department&#8217;s chief diversity officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the psychology,&#8221; Hooks said, &#8220;that separates a women&#8217;s Spidey-Senses from going, &#8216;I&#8217;m not going in there,&#8217; to [doing] the cost-benefit analysis of, &#8216;But this is my opportunity to get a job, and I&#8217;ve been in this industry for 20 years, toiling away, waiting tables on the side, and I finally get an invitation to Mecca.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hooks&#8217;s comments may put him in conflict with his new employer. Rob Bonta (D.), California attorney general. <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/sexual-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unambiguously states<\/a> That &#8220;sexual violence derives from unequal power relationships, and is one of the most common violations of people&#8217;s rights.&#8221; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/newsom-received-pricey-wine-from-harvey-weinsteins-lawyer-records-show\/\">So called<\/a> The #MeToo movement &#8220;a profound opportunity to address deeper issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hooks didn&#8217;t respond to our request for comment. The California Department of Justice spokesperson said that Hooks&#8217; comments will be reviewed by the agency, but it is not obligated to do so. &#8220;unable to comment on a potential or ongoing personnel issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hooks maintained that he was innocent &#8220;blaming&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s victims, however, questioned the motives behind those who agreed privately to meet with them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly minted diversity chief at California&#8217;s Department of Justice once made light of Bill Cosby&#8217;s sexual assaults of women and suggested that Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s victims may have willingly traded sex for career opportunities.<br \/>\nThe post California Diversity Chief Says Harvey Weinstein Victims Knew What They Were Doing appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":1834174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4045,5772,6759,10437,4931,10435],"class_list":["post-1834171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-california","tag-chief","tag-diversity","tag-harvey","tag-victims","tag-weinstein"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}