Thousands of convicted pedophiles in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> served less than a year in prison after committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, according to an investigative <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
The Daily Mail analyzed a statewide database of sex offenders that showed more than 7,000 child molesters were released within months after federal authorities sentenced them to prison.
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told Daily Mail that the statistics &#8220;shocked&#8221; him, adding the reality is &#8220;frightening for society.&#8221;
&#8220;Statistics clearly show that pedophiles don&#8217;t get reformed,&#8221; Dordulian said. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to come out, and they&#8217;re going to commit again. Letting these people out early, we&#8217;re allowing for a lot more victimization — and that&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
California law requires sex offenders to register their address and update their location upon moving with the Department of Justice. Those names and other personal details are then placed in a public database under Megan&#8217;s Law, which the Clinton administration passed in 1996 after a pedophile murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to the report, 54,986 sex offenders were listed on the website in July 2019, of which 76% committed offenses involving children.
The average pedophile served two years and ten months in prison.
One of the examples outlined in the Daily Mail report said an offender in the database named Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, of Reseda, California, lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School after allegedly being convicted of &#8220;continuous sexual abuse of a child&#8221; in 2015.
Authorities charged Nahue in October 2014. He pled no contest to the crime in January 2015, which resulted in a judge sentencing him to only two days in an L.A. county jail and five years of probation.
According to the database, some pedophiles committed misdemeanors, such as indecent exposure or attempting to send lewd pictures to children, and convicts received less jail time. However, the most common offenses were &#8220;lewd or lascivious acts&#8221; against children under 14 years old, and 7,152 pedophiles who committed this crime served less than a year.
Dordulian said the statistics were &#8220;&#8216;surprisingly very low.&#8221;
&#8220;In my days [in the L.A. DA&#8217;s office], we made every effort to get as long of a prison sentence as we could because we knew that the minute they&#8217;re going to come out, they&#8217;re more likely to re-offend and another child&#8217;s gonna get harmed,” he told Daily Mail.
Dordulian said as a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s policies shorten prison sentences to reduce the population locked up.
&#8220;That has been the push for the last at least five years: letting people out of prison much earlier than what their sentences were for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But these types of individuals, they&#8217;re not amenable to rehabilitation, and studies have shown that. They&#8217;re gonna harm another child — It&#8217;s a very, very scary trend.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s attorney general told Daily Mail that &#8220;public safety is a top priority for the California Department of Justice,&#8221; adding that the issue generally falls on the responsibility of local district attorneys, courts, and state lawmakers.
&#8220;Our office actively works with law enforcement across the state to protect our state&#8217;s children and families, whether that&#8217;s through conducting sting operations targeting sexual predators, issuing guidance to reduce harm to sexually exploited youth, or launching Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office, said the situation was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; to Daily Mail, adding the problem is only getting worse under his boss George Gascón, who supported Proposition 57, which allows early parole for nonviolent felons.
&#8220;Thousands of child victims are being denied justice, and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,&#8221; Hatami said.
Hatami said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stopped notifying the child victims and their families of such early releases.
&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Furthermore, most of these sex offenders who are released early have not been rehabilitated whatsoever. This will clearly endanger our future generation of children and our entire community — it&#8217;s a disgrace that the state of California is not prioritizing the safety and well-being of our children.&#8221;

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Do you ever get the sense that the Left is trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cannot-ignore-the-slippery-slope-of-minor-attracted-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">normalize pedophilia</a>?
Well, of course, you do. It&#8217;s hard not to have that impression. Liberals have gone off the rails over the past decade. Fashion brands are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-unloads-on-balenciaga-over-child-photo-shoot-scandal?utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=dwtwitter&amp;cid=news&amp;mid=t&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing bondage-bound teddy bear advertisements</a> that sexualize children. Using progressive logic, if children can consent to change their gender, they can consent to a whole lot more.
It is all an entirely perverse and disordered slippery slope.
Now, we have The Washington Post writing a rave review for a play that casts pedophiles in a sympathetic light, suggesting their punishments are often too harsh.
In a column titled, &#8220;‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant,&#8221; theater critic Peter Marks <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/23/downstate-bruce-norris-pedophiles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the play for being &#8220;tough stuff, questioning how society treats those convicted of heinous acts.&#8221;
As described by Marks, Bruce Norris — the playwright behind the production — paints these child molesters in a positive light.
&#8220;He’s loaded the dice to some degree in &#8216;Downstate,&#8217; as the predators who’ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls,&#8221; Marks claims.
The play also makes a victim of one of the main characters  — a now-grown man who was molested by his instructor during a piano practice — out to be the bad guy in the story.
So why does Marks find this garbage to be so enlightening and worthy of praise?
Well, as Marks explains it&#8217;s not for everybody — especially those staunchly against pedophilia and who believe in true justice.
&#8220;Some theatergoers no doubt will resent that Norris chose to illuminate this delicate subject in a nuanced way that doesn’t jibe with their own undiluted revulsion,&#8221; Marks explains. &#8220;If you suspect you are one of these people, &#8216;Downstate&#8217; is not for you.&#8221;
Yet if you have an open mind to the topic, or whatever, then maybe this is your cup of tea.
&#8220;For many others, it will be a stunning demonstration of the power of narrative art to tackle a taboo, to compel us to look at a controversial topic from novel perspectives,&#8221; Marks said.
There is nothing to discuss — except whether or not pedophiles deserve tougher sentences such as the death penalty.
Yet that&#8217;s just it. Many on the Left want to make that viewpoint old-fashioned. There are movements to change the name of the pedophile to a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minor-attracted-person-inside-the-growing-effort-to-destigmatize-pedophilia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minor-attracted person</a>&#8221; and make it societally acceptable. This play is part of that slippery slope.
As heavyweight boxer and author Ed Latimore explained, &#8220;The fact that the play got made is already a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Calling it &#8216;brilliant&#8217; is disgusting,&#8221; Latimore tweeted. &#8220;The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the @washingtonpos described the character of the victim as &#8216;the most disagreeable character&#8217; who is played &#8216;irritatingly well.'&#8221;
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The fact that the play got made is already a problem.
Calling it &quot;brilliant&quot; is disgusting.
The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> described the character of the victim as &quot;the most disagreeable character&quot; who is played &quot;irritatingly well.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4">https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4</a>
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All of this is an attempt to destigmatize pedophilia.  Norris&#8217; play wants the viewer to believe that we need to change our views on the subject.
You would only give out lighter sentences to these creeps if what you think they did is acceptable or at the very least not as bad of a crime as it&#8217;s treated now. Of course, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s heinously evil, but some want to convince you otherwise.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Lower-level <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> parliamentarians unanimously passed a law Thursday that would ban the distribution of materials promoting homosexuality, pedophilia, and gender reassignment.
More than 300 representatives of the State Duma, including the chairman, authored the new law, which imposes heavy fines of up to 10 million rubles ($165,000) for violating the ban by promoting such propaganda using online channels, media, or in public. Foreign citizens and stateless persons who violate the law would also face expulsion from the Russian Federation.
Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin <a href="http://duma.gov.ru/news/55838/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the law would help protect the motherland&#8217;s traditions and values for her children and the future of Russia from the &#8220;darkness spread by the United States and European states.&#8221;
Volodin called the U.S. the &#8220;center of this sodom in the world&#8221; in response to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who had allegedly proposed Russian representatives withdraw the draft law.
&#8220;There is no need to impose alien values ​​on us,” Volodin said. &#8220;You destroyed yours — we&#8217;ll see how it all ends. But it&#8217;s definitely sad because this is sodom — there&#8217;s no other way to say it.&#8221;
&#8220;Let them live there, but don&#8217;t bother us,&#8221; Volodin added.
Russian lawmakers have already banned propaganda promoting homosexuality among minors nearly a decade ago and passed amendments to its constitution outlawing same-sex marriage in 2020.
Alexander Khinstein, one of the bill&#8217;s authors, referred to LGBT ideology as “hybrid warfare.”
&#8220;LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare, and in this hybrid warfare,” Khinstein said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. &#8220;We must protect our values, our society, and our children.&#8221;
Political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann said in an interview from Cologne, Germany, that the law would prohibit anything showing LGBT relations as &#8220;socially acceptable&#8221; or &#8220;equal to so-called traditional family relations or sexual relations.&#8221;
&#8220;People — authors, publishers, just people — will think twice before even mentioning anything related to LGBT,&#8221; Schulmann said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.
Kseniya Mikhailova, a member of the LGBT support group Vykhod (&#8220;Coming Out&#8221;), told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> that the new law could make same-sex kissing in public illegal, but would not put adults-only gay bars or clubs out of business.
Dilya Gafurova, the head of LGBTQ rights group Sfera, told <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221124-russian-lawmakers-approve-bill-banning-lgbtq-propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Agence France-Presse</a> that it was “disturbing that the state is saying LGBT+ people are a Western invention,&#8221; adding “there is nothing wrong with us and nothing that needs to be hushed up.&#8221;
The law still needs approval from the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin before taking effect.

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Cenk Uygur&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM64v82pKM4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest unhinged rant</a> saw the Young Turks host attack Catholic priests, accuse the right-wing of cheering on pedophilia, and make a bizarre supposition about why Tim Pool wears a wool cap.
The volatile leftist&#8217;s diatribe on his internet show was triggered by Saturday night&#8217;s mass shooting in a Colorado Springs gay bar, which he erroneously said Pool and other conservatives applauded. Several liberals have claimed conservative opposition to pedophilia, radical gender theory, and grooming children through drag shows is putting LGBT lives at risk.
“The right-wing loves pedophiles,” Uygur said. &#8220;There’s no end to the depravity of right-wing media.”
A particular observation by Pool in response to the shooting, which left five dead, seemed to set off Uygur. Initial speculation swirled that the suspect, whose lawyers have just revealed identifies as &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; launched his attack in Club Q because it was set to host a drag show for children the next day.
“We shouldn’t tolerate pedophiles grooming kids. Club Q had a grooming event,” Pool said, before suggesting the challenge facing decent people is “how to prevent the violence and stop the grooming.”
Uygur took the comment to mean that Pool was somehow justifying violence.
“He’s a monstrous right-winger,” Uygur shouted. “He’s a terrible, terrible person. [He thinks] &#8216;all gay people are pedophiles and groomers and we should all attack them and do all these horrible things so we can goad our lunatic audience.’ And yes, Tim Pool, Matt Walsh, Tucker Carlson, you all have lunatics in your audience and you weaponize them and you know it.&#8221;
“I’m sick of these right-wingers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Look at it. They’re almost celebrating it! I mean, he nearly brought pom-poms to the shooting!”
Rage against pedophilia, Uygur said, should instead be directed at the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
“What do we know about the giant cases of pedophilia in this country?&#8221; he asked his audience. &#8220;Number one is Catholic priests, one of the most conservative professions in America.
“And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em, Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em, priests!’” he charged.
“They love the Boy Scouts. A nest of vipers and pedophiles and groomers, okay? And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! The Boy Scouts! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em priests!’ Tell me I’m wrong. You guys love the Boy Scouts and priests. You never criticize them.”
Uygur brought the pedophilia fulmination back to his initial target, Pool, with a strange explanation for why the YouTube and podcast star often sports a ski cap.
“The reason Tim Pool wears a beanie is because he’s trying to contain the pedophilia that’s in his head,&#8221; Uygur said. &#8220;That’s why he’s always talking about it. He’s seeing it everywhere. Why? Because he’s projecting.”
However bizarre Uygur&#8217;s attack on Pool, priests, and the Boy Scouts may seem, he will have to work harder to top his most unhinged rant.
“If I were the benevolent dictator of the world, I would legalize bestiality where you are giving — you’re pleasuring the animal,&#8221; Uygur said in 2013. &#8220;You see what I’m saying?”
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Legislators such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders often make headlines for their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-five-craziest-bills-ever-proposed-by-aoc?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwbrand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">radically progressive agendas</a> — from forcibly converting the entire economy to rely upon nascent green energy sources, to opening every federal social program for illegal migrants. Yet there is one state-level lawmaker who has repeatedly garnered the nation’s attention by making even the most extreme leftists in Congress seem like Rand Paul or Josh Hawley.
A brief overview of policies forwarded by Scott Wiener, a Democratic member of the California State Senate, establishes the official as one of the most dangerous lawmakers in the nation.
<h3>Legal Infanticide</h3>
The Golden State has a reputation for ardently supporting abortion — but Wiener supported a bill that would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-democrats-are-pushing-a-bill-opening-the-door-to-decriminalizing-infanticide-pro-lifers-warn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open the door</a> to legal protections for killing pre-born babies after birth.
Assembly Bill 2223, which has <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> both chambers of the California legislature, states that mothers cannot be held liable for either civil or criminal penalties “based on their actions or omissions” connected to a “perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause.” The word perinatal, which the legislation does not define, usually refers to a few weeks both before and after the baby is born — implying that protections for already-born babies against murder could be eroded in the name of choice.
The bill would also remove the requirement that coroners investigate the cause of “violent, sudden, or unusual deaths” related to “self-induced or criminal abortion.” It would also nix the requirement that an “unattended fetal death be handled as a death without medical attendance.”
<h3>Pedophilia</h3>
If children in California manage to escape abortion and reach adolescence, legislation proposed and passed into law by Wiener could let adults <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-that-could-alter-sex-offender-registration-for-gay-sex-with-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexually abuse</a> them while more easily keeping their names off sex offender registries.
Senate Bill 145, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> by Governor Gavin Newsom two years ago, would allow a young adult who has a homosexual encounter with a minor escape registering as a sex offender in some cases, based upon the discretion of a judge. 
California law had previously dictated that any case of anal or oral sex with a minor, as well as vaginal penetration with any object besides a penis, requires the adult perpetrator to register as a sex offender, while judges had more leeway in cases of vaginal intercourse with an underage girl. Wiener said that the new law resolves California’s discrimination against homosexuals.
“I am so grateful that Governor Newsom — one of the LGBTQ community’s strongest allies ever — once again has shown that he’s willing to support our community when it’s hard,” Wiener, a homosexual himself, said upon the legislation’s approval. “Today, California took yet another step toward an equitable society.”
Other Democratic lawmakers, including Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales, balked at the extreme legislation. “I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense,” she remarked. “We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.”
<h3>Vaccines And Transgender Surgeries Without Parental Consent</h3>
Wiener has filed legislation twice this year eroding parental authority over their own children — once in relation to vaccines, and once in relation to transgender procedures.
Senate Bill 866 would allow children aged 12 and above to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proposed-california-bill-would-allow-kids-12-to-be-vaccinated-without-parental-consent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">receive vaccines</a> without parental consent since, according to Wiener, unvaccinated children put themselves and others at risk. He also noted that California lets teenagers access abortion without requiring the blessing of their mothers and fathers. “It’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site,” he argued.
Meanwhile, Senate Bill 107 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-senate-passes-transgender-refuge-bill-eroding-parental-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that courts would have “temporary emergency jurisdiction” if a child is “unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.” Wiener condemned “vile anti-LGBTQ hate laws” from “right-wing politicians” that would prevent children from receiving <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-surgery-poised-to-become-a-5-billion-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous surgeries</a> and hormones against their parents’ wishes.
<h3>Males In Female Prisons</h3>
Wiener was the author of legislation permitting male California inmates to identify themselves as the opposite sex and relocate to female prisons.
Senate Bill 132, which <a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/prea/sb-132-faqs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became law</a> at the beginning of last year, lets transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals stay in facilities that correspond to their professed gender. “It’s a really positive step forward,” Wiener <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/12/scott-weiner-california-trans-prisons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> at a town hall event. “In California we are moving the opposite direction, embracing our trans siblings, making it clear that trans people are fully part of this community, and that we love and honor them, and that we are gonna lift them up.”
Multiple female inmates have since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-inmate-pregnant-after-being-forced-to-share-prison-with-biological-men-claiming-to-be-transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that they were impregnated by fellow prisoners claiming transgender identity. The state of California reportedly began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-gives-female-inmates-condoms-plan-b-after-state-forces-them-to-stay-with-transgenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">providing contraceptives</a>, including Plan B, to female inmates forced to bunk with men — a policy that even provoked left-wing feminist groups to speak against the new legislation.
<h3>Decriminalized Psychedelics And Injection Sites</h3>
Wiener introduced legislation last year that would decriminalize possession of psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, and MDMA.
Senate Bill 519, which was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-12/bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-in-california-gutted-by" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gutted</a> two months ago into a study examining the possible effects of drug decriminalization, was initially proposed by Wiener as a purported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ca-state-sen-scott-wieners-bill-decriminalizing-psychedelics-moves-forward-after-removing-date-rape-drug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">solution</a> to the War on Drugs, as well as a means to expand mental health treatment. 
Even as San Francisco witnesses a surge in drug overdoses, Wiener also introduced Senate Bill 57 in an effort to <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20220803-senator-wiener%E2%80%99s-safe-consumption-site-bill-receives-final-senate-sign-heads-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">establish</a> “safe injection sites” in his city. Although Newsom vetoed the proposal, Wiener argued that the legislation advanced a “proven model to help people avoid overdose deaths, reduce HIV and hepatitis transmission, reduce syringe litter, and help people access treatment.”

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&#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/harry-potter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry Potter</a>&#8221; author <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a> laid into &#8220;genderists&#8221; in a brief Twitter thread on Wednesday, slamming them for making excuses when it was revealed that a &#8220;paedophilia apologist&#8221; had been allowed to sit on the board of trustees at a transgender children&#8217;s charity.
Rowling, who often leans to the left on the political spectrum, has drawn a hard line at radical <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender theory</a> — which she argues erases women — and has been labeled a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) for her troubles.
The author still speaks out on the subject regularly, despite receiving numerous threats. On Wednesday, she responded to reports that Dr. Jacob Breslow — an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics — had resigned from the transgender children&#8217;s charity Mermaids after people became aware that he had once spoken at a B4U-ACT conference promoting support for pedophiles.
&#8220;I note the genderists are now arguing that it doesn&#8217;t matter that a paedophilia apologist was a trustee of a trans children&#8217;s charity, because he was &#8216;only one.&#8217; You know, I thought things were pretty bad when you were arguing to put convicted rapists in women&#8217;s jails,&#8221; Rowling began.
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when you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors. Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on. 2/3
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&#8220;When you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on.&#8221;
&#8220;You still prefer willful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong,&#8221; Rowling said, going on to note that many of the activists had become the very thing they so often professed to hate.
&#8220;You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn&#8217;t even notice,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won&#8217;t last.&#8221;
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Perfect example. The problem isn&#39;t that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming &#39;on or with&#39; a child was made trustee of a children&#39;s charity, but that the TERFs might &#39;twist&#39; his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue. <a href="https://t.co/KwDWSK2B79">pic.twitter.com/KwDWSK2B79</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1577694817924091907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rowling later added to the thread, sharing a screenshot of one of the comments she had received. The comment read: &#8220;Even if he was (and his appointment as a Mermaid trustee was stupid given the level of scrutiny and how everything is twisted by TERFs) that doesn’t stop trans men being men, trans women being women, and non-binary people being non-binary people.&#8221;
Rowling responded by saying, &#8220;Perfect example. The problem isn&#8217;t that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming &#8216;on or with&#8217; a child was made trustee of a children&#8217;s charity, but that the TERFs might &#8216;twist&#8217; his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue.&#8221;

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J.K. Rowling Takes Apart ‘Genderists’ For Excusing ‘Paedophilia Apologist’ Trustee Of Children’s Charity

J.K. Rowling Takes Apart 'Genderists' For Excusing 'Paedophilia Apologist' Trustee Of Children's Charity

Gender Identity

Harry Potter

JK Rowling

A gay rights organization was deplatformed by PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo, only to discover on Thursday that pro-pedophile organization Prostasia continues to be on good business terms with the multinational financial technology company.
<a href="https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/">Gays Against Groomers</a>, an organization comprised entirely of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and even transgender people, launched in 2022 and has had meteoric success at attracting followers to their cause exposing the harms done to children by some radicals hiding behind the LGBTQ banner. Gays Against Groomers <a href="https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1572115130242179073?s=20&amp;t=3CgBakE_IGeTkYHxoLBLXA">wrote early</a> on Tuesday that PayPal and Venmo had dropped them for “violating” their user agreement.
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JUST IN: While we’re not allowed to conduct business on PayPal, guess who is… an organization that offers a support group for “MAPs”<a href="https://twitter.com/PayPal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PayPal</a> banned us for being against pedophilia, but allow actual pedophile groups to use their services unabated.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoycottPayPal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoycottPayPal</a> <a href="https://t.co/b6csNR73cv">pic.twitter.com/b6csNR73cv</a>
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&#8220;The fact that an organization comprised solely of gay people, with trans contributors as well, is being banned from the largest payment processors in the country for opposing the sexualization and mutilation of children is shocking, to say the least,&#8221; said Jaimee Michell, the Gays Against Groomers founder.
&#8220;On top of that, we discovered tonight that while we have been banned, an organization that literally runs a support group for pedophiles is able to use PayPal’s services. It tells you all you need to know about the state of our society right now,&#8221; Michell added.
The gay rights advocacy group is the latest to be targeted by PayPal for challenging dominant leftist narratives surrounding sex and gender. Evolutionary biologist <a href="https://quillette.com/2022/06/23/i-got-thrown-off-etsy-and-paypal-for-expressing-my-belief-in-biological-reality/">Colin Wright</a>, writer <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/paypal-permanently-bans-journalist-ian-miles-cheongs-account">Ian Miles Cheong</a>, and recently the Free Speech Union and the Daily Sceptic, run by conservative editor <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-has-paypal-cancelled-me-">Toby Young</a>, have all had their accounts permanently closed by PayPal without notice.
Ironically, PayPal sported a banner that said “Open For All&#8221; on Twitter during Pride month in June, which their <a href="https://twitter.com/PayPalUK">U.K. account</a> still displays. While critics of leftist ideology are denied the ability to conduct commerce, PayPal remains open for business with the openly pedophilic advocacy group Prostasia. Prostasia accepts donations through their website by credit card, check, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as PayPal and Venmo.
Of particular concern is a forum hosted by Prostasia called the <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/">MAP Support Club (MSC)</a>, which is described as a “chat-based peer-support network for teenagers and adults who self-identify as being attracted to younger minors.” MAP Support Club invites “minor attracted people” aged <a href="https://mapsupport.club/">13 years old</a> and up to participate in online chats about “minor attraction.”
“It is intended as a community where MAPs can connect with one another, offer and receive support in difficult times, and overall just enjoy a relaxed atmosphere where one can have fun and not be judged,” reads the MAP Support Club <a href="https://mapsupport.club/">website</a>.
Additionally, on Tuesday, Gays Against Groomers <a href="https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1572432474965409793?s=20&amp;t=3CgBakE_IGeTkYHxoLBLXA">announced that Google</a> had also disabled their account, which included the use of their Gmail email address, for “violating” their policies. Gays Against Groomers has also been suspended from Twitter numerous times, purportedly for their use of the recently-banned word “groomer.” Twitter was pressured to ban use of the word as a targeted insult after Reddit and other platforms recently banned the word, claiming that it is an &#8220;anti-LGBT slur.&#8221;
While “groomer” is sometimes used to describe the process of adults initiating a sexual or predatory relationship with minors, the word can also be used to describe a process of indoctrinating naive children into cultish ideologies. On Twitter, the word had been increasingly used in the latter sense to describe those indoctrinating children into gender ideology, which is a belief system based on the falsehood that whether someone is a man, boy, woman, or girl has nothing to do with one’s biology, but is instead determined by one’s subjective and undefinable &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
Attracting even more drama, PayPal last week threatened to <a href="https://www.mauinews.com/uncategorized/2022/09/pressure-mounts-for-total-sarver-ban-as-paypal-makes-ultimatum/">pull their sponsorship</a> of the Phoenix Suns NBA basketball team if owner Robert Sarver remained part of the franchise at the end of his suspension.
In a statement, PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman pointed to his company&#8217;s &#8220;strong record of combatting racism, sexism and all forms of discrimination,&#8221; and said Sarver&#8217;s conduct is &#8220;unacceptable and in conflict with our values.&#8221;
“In light of the findings of the NBA’s investigation, we will not renew our sponsorship should Robert Sarver remain involved with the Suns organization, after serving his suspension,” Schulman said.
There has been a notable increase in user bannings after PayPal partnered with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 2021 to &#8220;fight extremism and protect marginalized communities.&#8221; According to their <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized">press release</a>, the ADL said the collaboration &#8220;launched a research effort to address the urgent need to understand how extremist and hate movements throughout the U.S. are attempting to leverage financial platforms to fund criminal activity.&#8221;
PayPal did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment in time for publication.

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Gay Rights Organization Gets Deplatformed By PayPal While Pro-Pedophile Group Remains

Discrimination

Gay Rights

Money

A Texas high school teacher was fired Friday after she instructed students to not judge people for wanting to have sex with five-year-olds.
The El Paso School District, led by Superintendent Diana Sayavedra, initially suspended Amber Parker, 53, who taught English at Franklin High School in El Paso. But on Friday, the district <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11202311/Texas-teacher-Amber-Parker-fired-told-students-call-pedophiles-minor-attracted-persons.html">voted unanimously</a> to fire her.
“After a thorough investigation was conducted, on September 6, 2022, during a Special Board Meeting, the Board of Trustees approved a decision to notify a Franklin High School teacher of proposed termination,” <a href="https://www.episd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;DomainID=67&amp;ModuleInstanceID=101&amp;ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=47348&amp;PageID=127">Chief Communications Officer</a> Liza Rodriguez stated, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-teacher-administrative-leave-telling-students-call-pedophiles-mi-rcna47064">NBC News</a>.  “Any allegation of potential misconduct is investigated thoroughly, and the safety of our students is a top priority.”
A clip from a TikTok video showed Parker telling her students, “Stop calling them that. &#8216;You&#8217;re not allowed to label people like that. Stop it, Diego. We&#8217;re not gonna call them that.  &#8230; We&#8217;re gonna call them MAPs, minor-attracted persons. So don&#8217;t judge people just because they wanna have sex with a five-year-old.”
Parker’s remarks were allegedly made prior to the class reading Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible,” which revolves around the infamous Salem witch trials.
Initially, school board trustee Daniel Call felt that Parker’s remarks were taken out of context and posted his reaction on Facebook, KFOXTV <a href="https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/franklin-high-school-amber-parker-board-of-trustee-explains-unanimous-decision-to-terminate-franklin-hs-teacher-jonathan-mejia-reports">reported.</a>  That prompted Parker’s husband Jason to thank Call, stating:
<blockquote>Mr. Daniel Call I happen the be the husband of the teacher in question. I can tell you that we were shaken to the core about these accusations. It is both scary and disturbing that that an edited 18 second clip could destroy a 30 year career when taken completely out of context. She is exemplary as a teacher and truly cares about the students. Needless to say we have spent many sleepless nights because of this cruel release to social media of the 18 seconds. We pray that you and the rest of the board will see this for what it is and not allow and edited video destroy an innocent woman, her career and her family in the process. I want to thank you personally for the updated post to begin to right this wrong.</blockquote>
But one week later Call changed his position. “Any reasonable person that heard what the seven trustees heard would&#8217;ve voted to terminate Amber Parker. &#8230; There were more things that the public may not know about that was included on the closed findings.”
“Initially I was shocked and horrified when I saw the video. Then when I heard that she was trying to be sarcastic, I felt bad for her,&#8221; he told NBC News. &#8220;However, when the district&#8217;s investigation into this situation helped me understand the full story, I have no doubt that terminating this teacher is the right thing to do.&#8221;
Call, noting that administrators have to approve lesson plans, explained why parker was still responsible:
“She should not have strayed as far as she did. Hypothetically, I could have the best lesson plan in the world. But if I don’t follow the lesson plan and I deviate into some areas I shouldn’t be teaching about, or talking about? The lesson plan is kind of pointless.&#8221;
Al Velarde, president of the board, said the next step for Parker could be an appeals process.

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Texas Teacher Fired After Telling Students Not To Judge People Wanting Sex With A 5-Year-Old

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Texas

Podcast host Joe Rogan tore into The Vatican during a recent episode of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; claiming that the Holy See was &#8220;a country filled with pedophiles and stolen art.&#8221;
During Wednesday&#8217;s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QYGeIYkXR0eKDRWiEKHXe?si=dd0cd983ab2a4b72&amp;nd=1">episode</a>, Rogan spoke with &#8220;TRIGGERnometry&#8221; hosts Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin — and the conversation quickly turned to culture, outrage, and how much of that Rogan believed was not necessarily fair or balanced.
&#8220;Even the outrage about things you should be outraged about, like Jeffrey Epstein, that outrage was balanced. Right? Sort of. Right?&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-dont-want-to-help-him-joe-rogan-says-he-shot-down-the-chance-to-interview-trump-more-than-once/">Rogan</a> began, noting that the outrage over <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-records-show-how-jeffrey-epstein-spent-his-final-days-in-jail/">Epstein</a> was more or less universal.
&#8220;But what about the Catholic church?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Like why isn’t everybody really freaking out about — I was just in Italy and one of the things that’s nuts is the Vatican is a country. It’s a country filled with pedophiles. It’s a country filled with pedophiles and stolen art. It’s a small, like hundred yard — Like what is it? A hundred acres, I think. Yeah. It’s a hundred acre rather, country inside of a city filled with pedophiles.&#8221;
Kisin pushed back, pointing out how lucky Rogan was to be in the United States when he made such statements.
&#8220;This is why I love America, man. Cause in the U.K., we have libel laws. So if you say something like that and you then have to be able to prove it, otherwise you can get sued,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Well, you can kind of prove that,&#8221; Rogan argued.
Foster agreed, pointing out the fact that even into the 21st century, the age of consent was <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/02/red-hot-catholic-love-at-twelve-years-old/190085/">just twelve</a>.
&#8220;I mean I read the other day that — I think it was until five, six years ago, the age of consent in the Vatican City was 12 years old,&#8221; he said, prompting Rogan to ask producer Jamie Vernon to verify the claim.
&#8220;Oh my God. The Vatican city’s equal age of consent being raised from 12 to 18, following the announcement of an overall — the Catholic church criminal code by Pope Francis,&#8221; Rogan said once Vernon had found what he was looking for.
The Zanardelli Code, which set the age of consent to 12 years old for Vatican City in 1889, was repealed in 2010 and changed to 18.
Rogan went on to reference several instances in which the Catholic Church was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-pens-scathing-letter-emily-zanotti/">alleged</a> to have known about molestation and instead of punishing the priests responsible, had simply moved them to where they might not be noticed.

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‘Pedophiles And Stolen Art’: Joe Rogan Has a Very Low Opinion Of The Vatican

Joe Rogan Has a Very Low Opinion Of The Vatican

Joe Rogan

The Vatican

Before his win on Saturday, outspoken UFC middleweight champ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufc-fighter-jumps-in-during-presser-to-passionately-defend-joe-rogan-im-black-i-can-take-this-one">Israel Adesanya</a> called for the public naming and repercussions for the &#8220;pedos&#8221; involved in the Jeffrey Epstein and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-epstein-sex-trafficker-ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced">Ghislaine Maxwell</a> case.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-ag-bill-barr-dispels-theories-that-jeffrey-epstein-didnt-kill-himself">reportedly</a> killed himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial for his sex crimes. His longtime companion and ex-girlfriend, Maxwell, was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for helping Epstein recruit, groom, and sexually abuse young girls, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-epstein-sex-trafficker-ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“Ghislaine Maxwell just got put away for 20 years,&#8221; Adesanya said. &#8220;So, she was supplying kids for all these f***ing pedos, right? Where’s the list?&#8221;
&#8220;So, the list of, you know, politicians, and actresses and actors, or whatever, that get talked about, does that just get swept under the rug?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Do they not get any time for actually f***ing those kids? You know what I mean?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, like that&#8217;s just weird, like how all that just doesn&#8217;t compute with me,&#8221; Adesanya added.
Epstein reportedly had ties to former President Bill Clinton, allegedly even visiting the White House with numerous women, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-repeatedly-visited-clinton-white-house-brought-numerous-women-with-him-report">The Daily Wire</a> reported. Prince Andrew, too, reportedly had ties to the convicted pedophile and has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/nyregion/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-settlement.html">accused</a> of raping then-teenager Virginia Giuffre.
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UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya: “Ghislaine Maxwell was supplying kids for all these pedos, right, where&#39;s the list?&#8230;the list of politicians, actresses, actors that was talked about, does that get swept under the rug? ….” 😡🤬 <a href="https://t.co/PJ5ol1YX0l">pic.twitter.com/PJ5ol1YX0l</a>
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Adesanya in February made headlines when he fiercely defended popular podcast host Joe Rogan, who the Left smeared as racist and a promoter of &#8220;disinformation.&#8221;
The fighter took on a question that was not directed toward him during a pre-fight conference, calling Rogan “one of the nicest, coolest, humble motherf***ers” in the industry.
A reporter asked UFC President Dana White about the “controversy” surrounding Rogan and controversial language the podcaster has used on his show. As White started to walk away from the podium, Adesanya said he wanted to take on the question, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufc-fighter-jumps-in-during-presser-to-passionately-defend-joe-rogan-im-black-i-can-take-this-one">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“Hold up,” Adesanya <a href="https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2022/02/ufc-271-video-israel-adesanya-defends-joe-rogan">said</a>. “I’m black. I can take this one.”
“Look, there’s a lot of c***s in this game,” he told the reporter. “There are a lot of snakes in this game. I’ve been in this fight game since 2008. Joe Rogan is one of the nicest, coolest, humble motherf***ers I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Understand that.”
“F*** the noise,” Adesanya added. “You know what they’re trying to do. You can’t control the man. He’s got the biggest platform in the world right now. That’s my n**** Joe Rogan.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufc-fighter-jumps-in-during-presser-to-passionately-defend-joe-rogan-im-black-i-can-take-this-one">UFC Fighter Jumps In During Presser To Passionately Defend Joe Rogan: ‘I’m Black. I Can Take This One’</a>

UFC Champ Israel Adesanya Wants Public Naming, Repercussions For ‘Pedos’ In Epstein/Maxwell Case: ‘Where’s The List?’

UFC Champ Israel Adesanya Wants Public Naming, Repercussions For ‘Pedos’ In Epstein/Maxwell Case

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Jeffrey Epstein

A professor at the University of New Hampshire is pushing back after clips posted on Twitter showed him suggesting it is not &#8220;effective&#8221; to assume that a pedophilic &#8220;relationship&#8221; is predatory and criminal.
&#8220;If young people are initiating sexual activities with adults, or enthusiastically involved, we can&#8217;t be effective working with them if we assume that all such relationships start with a predatory or criminally inclined adult,&#8221; said Professor David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=d3Hz_zkIJw4&amp;feature=emb_logo">in the virtual talk</a> &#8220;Sex Crimes against Juveniles Involving Elements of Voluntary Participation: Implications for Prevention and Response.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen in the discussion, young people bridle at being forced into this box of being seen as the victim of a predator, and so there are reasons for learning about what the dynamics are and how to talk about them so that we can better help the young people who are in these situations,&#8221; he added in a clip dated March 23, flagged by the viral account Libs of Tik Tok.
Further review of Finkelhor&#8217;s speech shows him repeatedly referring to an adult sexually preying on a child as a &#8220;relationship.&#8221; He also repeatedly uses the word &#8220;voluntary&#8221; to describe a child submitting to adult overtures.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of ambiguity about and discussion and lack of consensus about what to call these kinds of episodes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve picked the term &#8216;voluntary elements to the sexual relationship between the child and considerably older partner.'&#8221;
But &#8220;voluntary-ness certainly has a continuum,&#8221; he noted.
&#8220;It can be a kind of manipulation of consent, it can be ambivalence about something that an adult takes advantage of, it can be about actual curiosity the child has to discover sex or do things that adults do,&#8221; the professor explained. &#8220;It can actually represent a very enthusiastic kind of participation on the part of the child who really feels very positively about the adult and sees themselves as wanting to have some kind of relationship.&#8221;
&#8220;It can actually involve the active initiatory seduction of an adult by a juvenile,&#8221; Finkelhor said. &#8220;So there&#8217;s a pretty wide spectrum here. In my view, maybe what I&#8217;m talking about starts here at the curiosity/enthusiasm and goes to the seduction end of the range here, but there could be debate about where we would want to draw the line.&#8221;
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🚨🚨🚨.<a href="https://twitter.com/UofNH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UofNH</a> professor says it’s ineffective to assume a sexual relationship between young people and adults is predatory and criminal <a href="https://t.co/GqQXmcr7hc">pic.twitter.com/GqQXmcr7hc</a>
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Finkelhor told The Daily Wire on Monday morning that his remarks in the Libs of TikTok clip were taken out of context and that they were made in a talk he gave on statutory sex crimes against children, noting that he &#8220;clearly said that all these kinds of crimes are illegal&#8221; and should be prevented.
&#8220;The point that I was making was that we can&#8217;t identify them if we assume that everybody who was sexually abusing children is identifiable from the kind of predator model where they had prior sexual interest in children and they were forcing themselves on a child,&#8221; he said.
Some pedophilic crimes occur, according to Finkelhor, because young people and adults are &#8220;unaware of the statutory sex crime laws&#8221; and thus professionals should spend &#8220;more time educating people about why this is a crime,&#8221; more time &#8220;discouraging young people from allowing themselves to be seduced by an adult&#8217;s flattery and interest,&#8221; and more time helping children &#8220;understand why these kinds of relationships don&#8217;t work out.&#8221;
Explaining the law to the child would help the child &#8220;recognize that they would not only be getting this adult into trouble but there are strong reasons why we discourage these relationships legally,&#8221; he added.
Finkelhor began his talk by highlighting the victims of war in Ukraine and suggesting that they are in more danger than the victims of pedophilia who he was preparing to discuss.
&#8220;I&#8217;m mindful of the fact that we are not really talking about them, today,&#8221; he said of the victims of war, &#8220;Although they need our attention desperately, we&#8217;re going to be talking about children who are in harms way but perhaps not in such a dire condition, and I just wanted to give a moment for us to think about these other millions of children, who will not be much in our discussion today.&#8221;
Finkelhor described a situation in which an adult female, Harriet, bought her friend&#8217;s son, a 15-year-old young man named George, beer and had sex with him in her car at a park. They reportedly continued to have sex for several months until his mother discovered what was going on.
Both Harriet and the teen reportedly insisted they wanted to get married when George was old enough.
&#8220;Despite his willingness to cooperate, the district attorney brings a statutory rape charge against Harriet,&#8221; said Finkelhor. &#8220;These are not just one-off occurrences. We hear about stories of this sort a lot. It&#8217;s actually in the media and in our entertainment a lot.&#8221;
The professor also cited an example of a movie about a teenaged female who &#8220;feels a lot of empowerment&#8221; by engaging in an &#8220;illicit affair&#8221; with a wealthy adult man.

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Professor: Not ‘Effective’ To Assume All Pedophilic Sexual Relationships Are Predatory, Criminal

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A philosophy professor who defended pedophilia has been temporarily removed from campus to limit his interactions with students.
Professor Stephen Kershnar of State University of New York-Fredonia said in a video posted to Twitter that it wasn’t clear to him that adults having sex with children “is in fact wrong,” <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/professor-who-defended-pedophilia-no-longer-interacting-with-students">according to</a> the Washington Examiner. Kershnar also reportedly said he didn’t think it was a “blanket wrong” have sex with a one-year-old.
SUNY-Fredonia President Stephen Kolison Jr. released a statement saying Kershnar had been assigned non-teaching duties while the matter is investigated. Kolison’s statement said, in full:
<blockquote>I am writing to provide you with an update on the matter involving one of our professors interviewed in a widely shared video podcast. We will continue to investigate this situation. In the meantime, effective immediately and until further notice, the professor is being assigned to duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students while the investigation is ongoing.
Please allow me to reiterate my earlier statement that I view the content of the video as absolutely abhorrent. I cannot stress strongly enough that the independent viewpoints of this individual professor are in no way representative of the values of the SUNY Fredonia campus.
I appreciate your patience as we make every effort to resolve this matter as expeditiously as possible.</blockquote>
The Examiner reported that Kershnar “will remain off campus until the president&#8217;s office has finished investigating the matter.”
This is the second recent incident involving a college professor defending pedophilia. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-places-professor-who-defended-minor-attracted-persons-on-leave">reported</a> in November 2021, Old Dominion University professor Dr. Allyn Walker was placed on leave days after he gave an interview seeking to normalize the phrase “minor-attracted persons” as an alternative to pedophile
On November 8, Dr. Allyn Walker gave an interview to the Protasia Foundation in which the assistant professor – who identifies as non-binary – made the case for the term “minor-attracted persons.”
“It’s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile,” Walker said in the interview, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/old-dominion-professor-statement-minor-attracted-persons?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab">according to Fox News</a>. “A lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn’t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.”
The interview was about Walker’s book, “A Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,” which Walker insisted was not a defense of child sexual abuse.
Walker said in the interview that it is “never OK to abuse a child.” Walker also made the point in <a href="https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/old_dominion_univers#.YZOyiL3MLa0">a statement</a> released by ODU.
“I want to be clear: child sexual abuse is an inexcusable crime. As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims. I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that, previously, has not been studied in order to identify ways to protect children,” Walker said.
The interview sparked outrage online and on campus, eventually resulting in ODU releasing a statement condemning Walker’s comments and research.
“Old Dominion University has placed Dr. Allyn Walker on administrative leave, effective immediately, from their position as assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice,” university spokesperson Amber Kennedy said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Reactions to Dr. Walker’s research and book have led to concerns for their safety and that of the campus,” Kennedy added. “Furthermore, the controversy over Dr. Walker’s research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution’s mission of teaching and learning.”

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