#Pedogate
Posted on 02/22/2017 5:06:39 PM PST by grundle
Yesterday, I made this blog post, where I wrote:
The recent sad, tragic, and shameful Milo Yiannopoulos situation shows that the right is far better than the left at policing its own
As soon as it was revealed that Milo Yiannopoulos had spoken in defense of adults having sex with underage children, the political right was universal in condemning his statements.
The American Conservative Union canceled his scheduled keynote address at its upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference.
Simon & Schuster canceled its planned publication of Milo’s upcoming book, which had previously shot to #1 at amazon just one day after it was first announced, and had later returned to #1 at amazon after the anti-Milo riots at UC Berkely.
And, perhaps most importantly of all, Yiannopoulos himself ended his employment relationship with Breitbart News.
So, as we can see, the political right did an excellent job of policing its own.
On the other hand, the political left often fails to police its own, and in fact, often does the exact opposite by honoring its own after their abhorrent behavior has been exposed, instead of condemning them.
I will now cite four specific examples of this: Roman Polanski, Hillary Clinton, Linda Sarsour, and Donna Hylton.
I then gave specific details of the horrible things that those four people on the political left had done. After that, I concluded with the following:
So in all four of these cases, instead of condemning the horrible things that these liberals had done, the political left honored them.
So yes, very much indeed, the right is far better than the left at policing its own.
So now, here we are, one day later, and this 1998 video has emerged of Bill Maher defending 35-year-old Mary Kay Letourneau for having sex with a 12-year-old boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F4r-skq_mA
So now, just one day after I wrote “the right is far better than the left at policing its own,” we have a chance to see if the left will react to Maher’s statements the same way that the right reacted to Yiannopoulos’s statements.
I won’t be holding my breath.
For the record, I have always enjoyed listening to both Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos, and I look forward to listening to what both of them have to say in the future. I wish that everyone supported free speech and intellectual diversity as much as Maher and Yiannopoulos do.
Stefan Molyneux has a great video about MILO and Controversy Surrounding him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsZSE-iJAk
Remember when the same bunch (McMullen, Krystol) ran the semi-nude photos of Melania Trump? They weren't doing it because they had a problem with nude women. They did it because they thought it would drive a wedge in the right.
Bill Maher was on the naughty teacher threads here?
What was his Freeper name?
You’re re-blogging yourself?
A new low - even for you.
The Cucks don’t have any say on the left side.
Pederasty is wrong; but Milo gets executed because he’s a conservative. Takai and Maher get a pass because they’re leftists.
However, Bill Maher isn’t a conservative. Neither is Lena Dunham. Standards are higher on the conservative side. There’s no reason for Milo’s career to come to an end when people on the liberal side say (and do) far worse and remain perfectly viable public figures, but Milo does need to do some soul-searching and convince me and others that he is unequivocally opposed to any sexual contact between teens and adults.
Mary Kay Letourneau & Vili Fualaau: A Timeline of Their Forbidden Relationship
I wonder how many people remember that Mary Kay Letourneau is the daughter of John Schmitz, once a prominent conservative Republican Congressman, a Birch Society member, who ran for President in 1972 on the American Independent Party ticket.
I don’t disagree.
However, this was speech, not a criminal act.
Mayer gets off free cause it’s give the young pre-teen boy a fist bump cause he F’ed an adult female.
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