Complaing that people possibly wrongly accused may lose their career is a bit of a slap in the face for those who have been pressured into (or to keep quiet about) sexual harassment/abuse
It depends on whether the accusation is true or not. I think TC is right because we are now in a phase where it doesn't take a judge to end your career, it just takes an accusation without proofs, basically a rumour. If later the accused will be found innocent, his career will have already been destroyed.
The problem is how to avoid this, so how to have people judged by courts instead of by the masses, the Daily Mail, or the Internet.
Harvey Whinesteins
career being over - when he was the one who seems to have threatend to ruin the careers of others ...
Two things: the first one is: an italian director has been accused of molesting women by an actress who worked with him, but other actresses who also worked with him have stepped up and defended him. His career is now on the brink. If other WOMEN hadn't stepped up to defend him, he would be ruined.
I find this situation dangerous, because it strips justice from where justice should be, because it puts people to the mercy of... the general public, who has no tool whatsoever to judge appropriately, and because the only chance for the accused person is to have some people -of a specific gender- to vouch for him. And it is still just a chance.
In the end, no one in the general public wants to know the truth, they just want to have their mind interested for a couple of minutes, defecate down some fast judgments on something they don't know and keep this prejudice forever without having to use their mind or to reconsider it later on. This is quite far from justice as I understand it.
On the Weinstein case, there is more than one side of the same medal; for example, many women had to choose between accepting Weinstein's sexual proposals, or having problems with their job as actresses. Very bad for sure. However, do not forget that many of them wouldn't have had the offer with Weinstein, had they not been gorgeous women but, say, men (with the same acting talent). There is more, some of the women who -accepted- Weinstein's sexual advances would not be where they are hadn't they been what they are and acted how they acted.
We tend to focus on one aspect of the situation and to forget about the other ones, while they are intertwined and they cannot possibly be selectively erased.
To me, the idea of using power to gain sexual favours, or to use (sexual) power to get where your talent could not get you otherwise, is very bad, because it is unfair and vastly inefficient, but it is comprised by more than just the predator's figure.
People in power abusing their positions for their gain (not just on a sexual level, but generally), sadly is a very common trait in humanity. The questions is how we move forward so that we have less of this in the future.
The first thing, I think, is to teach people to start using their brains and to understand -why- something is bad, and what can be done that is -better- than that, not just put random ideas in their head and let them become zealots of some blind divine rule.