Angela de Jong is being severely tackled by Victor Vlam because of the way she insulted Marco Borsato in RTL Tonight. “I think this is why her popularity is waning.”
Although Marco Borsato has been acquitted by the judge of fornication with an underage girl, Angela de Jong continues to consider him a pervert that she personally continues to cancel. She says she will never put on his music again. “Everything he admitted there (…) really made me sick,” she shouted on RTL Tonight.
‘Very strange’
TV critic Victor Vlam finds it ridiculous that Angela remains so fierce despite the acquittal and continues to call Marco’s accuser a victim. “I think this is the wrong way to deal with this, because if you say that this girl is a victim, then you automatically also say that Marco is a perpetrator. That is very strange, isn’t it?”
He continues in the podcast Victor Indicates TV: “The judge did say quite clearly that they doubt whether fornication actually took place here. So it is not some kind of technical acquittal of: ‘We could not obtain the evidence, but we find the story credible.’”
To concerts
This girl’s story is being doubted ‘on fundamental points’, Victor believes. “For example, the judgment states that the judge finds it remarkable that the girl did not show any deviant behavior towards Marco after the alleged fornication. For example, she still went to his concerts.”
He continues: “The judge finds it remarkable that no plausible explanation has been given for this. It is simply not clear whether she is a victim.”
‘Fuck it’
Angela should care about the statement, Victor thinks. “What Angela actually says is: ‘Fuck it, I see that girl as a victim’, but the consequence of that is: the moment someone has declared themselves a victim, that is automatically the ultimate truth, that everyone has to go along with it.”
“That is of course extremely problematic, because if saying that you are a victim is a way to gain the sympathy of the entire nation, then you get a lot of liars and opportunists who also declare themselves victims and then you have a lot more problems.”
Objective test
Marco has been found innocent by the judge and Angela should behave accordingly, Victor believes. “There should certainly be an objective test of whether someone is a victim and the judge seems to me to be a very useful institution to assess that. To Marco, what she is doing is quite rude.”
“I also think that it is one of the reasons why Angela’s popularity as a columnist is waning, because she of course came to fruition in the time of MeToo and then you had statements like: ‘Believe all victims!’, and things like that. We are really getting back to that now. The views on the cancel culture are really changing.”