Spike Lee defends Woody Allen and then immediately realizes it's a bad idea

Lee [via Deadline] says that Allen is “a great, great filmmaker” and that “this cancel thing” is not just going to impact him. “I think when we look back on it,” Lee says, “we are going to see that—short of killing somebody—I don’t know that you can just erase somebody like they never existed. One could argue that he’s not necessarily defending Allen against the longstanding allegation that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child, just that he’s saying you can’t completely cut someone out of the world the way people have with Allen, but that’s not really much different.

At some point later, Lee evidently learned a lesson in why you don’t say stuff like that. In an apology posted on Twitter, he said, “my words were WRONG” and “I do not and will not tolerate sexual harassment, assault, or violence.” He also added that “such treatment causes real damage that can’t be minimized.