> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable
There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?
Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
Seems like it would fall under the same heading. Attraction to male sexual characteristics, female sexual characteristics, either, both, nothing, or neither?
I am not saying it fits, but the edge cases in biology get really strange and eventually you need new terms for clarity. Chimera for example can contain one set of male cells and one set of female cells. So you start off with clear separation XX, XY then notice an outlier XXY etc, and suddenly need a new notation XX:XY.
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that
There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. [1]
Do you think what these tweets revealed is acceptable behavior then?
You don't have a problem with children in drag (where the 'drag mother' is a sex offender), or children being taken to venues to watch sexual performances and interact with the performers?
The lady in the first one is wearing a bikini (you can see it when she turns around) and (presumably) pasties, it's a little risque but not really much more so then a kid would see at the beach.
The second has a fully-clothed lady in makeup and headdress doing a dance that involves flashes of her underskirt, and is far less sexed up than, say, a can-can dancer, of which I personally saw plenty growing up watching old cartoons and TV shows (and have since ended up posting on the Hacker News forum which I guess is not necessarily the best endorsement). For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=...
As for the third link, I've personally found Andy Ngo to be a completely unreliable source. That said, I do believe sex offenders should not be around children, but maybe let's start with places where they're a bit thicker on the ground.
