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发帖数: 29846 | 1 January 6, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
The paper the Guardian has become Britain’s newest champion for a minority
of sorts. In a January 3 article, the UK paper has taken up the cause of
pedophiles who claim they are just “ordinary members of society” that only
need a little understanding.
The paper seriously presented pedophiles as but a misunderstood minority
that do no real harm. As Telegraph writer Damian Thompson points out, “this
is not some sick send-up” on his point. The UK Guardian is wholly serious.
Guardian feature columnist Jon Henley uncritically quotes convicted
pedophiles like Tom O’Carroll who said that children enter into such “
relationships” voluntarily. “If there’s no bullying, no coercion, no
abuse of power, if the child enters into the relationship voluntarily … the
evidence shows there need be no harm.”
Henley then trots out a few “experts” that present “proof” that kids are
not harmed by the predators that abuse them.
Thompson points out that this is the same sort of absurdly permissive
attitude that caused Catholic Churches across the world to “adopt a mild,
nuanced approach to suspicions of clerical pedophilia.”
This isn’t a new phenomenon, though. Only last year America’s Gawker
website also published a story that gave pedophiles the benefit of being
treated as abused minorities.
As in the Guardian article, throughout the Gawker piece passive language was
used to soft peddle child rape. The Gawker piece also constantly claimed
that sex between adults and children is just a “choice.” The pedophile
quoted in the Gawker piece even maintained that the sex he had with his
seven-year-old niece was consensual. Gawker simply takes his word for it
without protest.
Further, Gawker similarly trotted out “experts” claiming that child rape
is no big deal.
This attitude about adults that predate on children is a growing topic of
discussion and is the next horizon for defining criminal behavior downward. |
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