Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Slater
I don't want to spend 9 minutes deciding whether he actually said something during that particular interview that is not offensive. Perhaps he did. I have no doubt that he often utters inoffensive comments. Perhaps he likes Shakespeare or pizza, and I will find myself in agreement with him. But that's not the issue. His endorsement of pedophilia and other disgusting comments he makes on a routine basis are not excused simply because every word out of his mouth is not equally revolting.
|
He does not endorse pedophilia.
You know as well as anyone how videos can be edited, how snippets of conversation or text can be ripped out of context, how a frenetic mishmash of sight and sound can sway people who are already biased and want their bias confirmed.
Look at various conspiracy theorist videos. First, they almost all have this ridiculously ominous music track throbbing along to distract viewers and make them feel as if something simply awful is about to be revealed; then they show these brief clips of "Top Secret Government Documents", which people who are only looking to have their bias confirmed will accept as genuine, despite the fact that anyone can use photo editing tools and make any document bear the letterheads and signatures of presidents and various government officials. They swing these "documents" into brief focus, highlighting a signature or a letterhead, and swing it back out of focus, etc. It's absurd.
And let's get clear about what pedophelia is. It's a sexual attraction to children, for prepubescent children specifically. Milo speaks of having lost his virginity at 13. A 13 year old is not prepubescent, but already primed and ready for sex.
NOTE: I do not and have never endorsed sex with minors. It is ILLEGAL, and should remain so. Anyone having sex with a minor, especially if there's a wide age difference, has what's coming to them.
There's a word for people (men usually) who are attracted to sexually mature but underaged girls. And it's not "pedophilia". It's Ephebophilia.
Milo explains that he considers the general age of consent (16 in England, 18 in the states) to be "about right".
Milo is enjoying his fifteen minutes. Personally, I think he's a reckless hedonist who has a rude awakening coming. I wouldn't want to be friends with him, and I am not so much defending a man as defending a principle. Free Speech is just that: free.
In this country at least we allow free speech, even hate speech, whatever that is. Many on what Dave Rubin calls the "regressive left" seem to want to shut down free speech. Carson Tucker is also someone who seems to have a level head about all of this.
Link to an article about one of the admitted sex offenders Milo claims he helped identify. Notice I say claimed, since I don't know enough to say whether or not he was instrumental in this criminal's being caught with his pants down.