You’re missing it, although I really liked your post. And my child is also in a Waldorf kindergarten.
There is a way that pervs touch children that feels - and looks - different from a teacher or loving grandparent doing the same.
1. The perv will touch affectionately children he doesn’t know at all and has no reason to touch.
Ex. Trump giving a hug to the little boy who was trying to hug him: that hug was really so socially expected, and he was the Important President and a Grandpa and he knew how to do it that would feel non threatening. But Biden will hug tag along kids who are not the focus, and will move himself to a location in those photo shoots where he WILL GET MORE CHILD ACCESS.
2. A hug from a familiar loved one has affection and love right in it. It’s because you love your grandchild. You know her. You’re proud of her. There is a reason for that tight squeeze, that kiss in the hair. A perv will use the same physical deep passionate touches TO A CHILD HE BARELY KNOWS OR DOESNT KNOW. It feels quite wrong.
3. The perv if you look closely is getting too much personal pleasure from his caresses. Biden is the perfect example of this. He is REALLY ENJOYING HIS LITTLE PETTING AND TOUCHING.
4. The reverse of 3. The child clearly IS NOT ENJOYING IT. When Grandpa swings him up and kisses his face after that home run, the child knows why the extra affection. It is creepy to visit the White House and have an old man act like you just won the World Series, pawing your body. It feels creepy. The child moves away, tries to, looks uncomfortable, pushes the hand down or away.
It’s pretty damn obvious Biden has a strong lack of boundaries around CHILDREN. Some of what he is on camera doing is to me groping, inappropriate physical contact. He’s clearly a predator already, even if he never gets more than a feel here and there. I’d like to hope he never goes for more but we don’t know.
Well, I think you are in the target zone of describing how what Biden does is inappropriate, You described very well the fine line between genuine welcome affection and unwanted strange touching. You get people closer to what is accurate. Precision is still needed.
Biden is a politician and politicians are always kissing babies. So in general, Biden kissing kids or holding them up is not out of bounds unless he has, as you so well-described, lost his sense of boundaries around children.
But that does not make him a molester. If anything, I would say it is more precise to say he’s an idiot.
It’s the same when there is some guy who is a jerk at a party of respectable people saying, “Hey Mama, you got some nice hooters!”. The guy is a jerk, he says something off-color, inappropriate in that setting. If he was at a bar & billiards eatery, it might fit in with the background but in a respectable setting, it’s not welcome.
So Biden, the politician, has been kissing babies and ‘petting’ kids throughout his political career, but he does it a way that is not always welcome and he doesn’t know where the boundary is. He may not be a perv, then again maybe he is a perv. He is, however, in my view, surely an idiot.
I’ll keep the point that the photos do not convict him of pedophilia. He’s a borderline creep at most, but an idiot for sure IMO.
But this thread is about DOJ taking down thousands of pedophiles and their accomplices.
When Biden and his idiocy are somehow meshed in with the more serious crimes, it makes this conservative forum look cheap and skewed. It would be better to have a thread solely about Biden and his inappropriate behavior around children and especially with video clips showing how he lacks boundaries because a snapshot photo doesn’t show that, not always.