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An ethics professor at the New York public university has praised the ‘evolutionary advantages’ of pedophilia. He isn’t the first, and the reality is that he’s been openly backed by 153 other professors.There seems to have been an increase in individuals striving to initiate a dialogue regarding “de-stigmatizing” pedophilia in recent months. We previously recounted the example of a transgender-identifying professor who wrote The Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity to “destigmatize” pedophilia.Alyn Walker prefers the word “minor-attracted people” (MAPs) to “pedophile” since it has fewer unpleasant overtones and conveys the idea that sexuality is variable,...

Many assume that the battle over academia is really just students versus professors. The assumption is incorrect. Look no further than philosophy professor Stephan Kershnar of the State University of New York at Fredonia. Professor Kershnar was denied a promotion earlier this year, because of his outside-the-classroom writings on the school’s policies. The topics of his writings covered a school policy that Professor Kershnar said would “turn the student population into a group of snitches,” and how money allocated for the university’s diversity program should be spent getting better professors and students, as well as many other critiques of the...