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In the 1970s, the British Labour Party's bourgeois liberal wing, which would become Labour's dominant bloc under Tony Blair, found itself in league with the "Paedophile Information Exchange". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523526/How-Labour-Deputy-Harriet-Harman-shadow-minister-husband-Health-Secretary-Patricia-Hewitt-linked-group-lobbying-right-sex-children.html
There is a not insignificant portion of small l liberalism that sees age of consent laws as some legacy of Judeo-Christian censorship. In 2009, Anne Applebaum wrote a bonkers piece protesting Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/the_outrageous_arrest_of_roman.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/the_outrageous_arrest_of_roman.html
The fact that a Tulsi Gabbard's instincts are so much sounder than the original axis of evil's own David Frum is very on-brand for 2020 https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1304783675767152640
The thread here by Elizabeth Bruenig, no conservative her, should remind everyone remotely sensible that on some pretty fundamental moral matters, there is a consensus that transcends politics, even if the politicos spinning this are simply diabolical
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1304451502472298498
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1304451502472298498
California is the flagship of the liberal project: its object is the relentless obscuring of differences between right and wrong until what were always obvious moral evils are legislated for & then made 'norms'. It is happening in plain sight now. https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1304619709682384896
Tulsi Gabbard & Nancy Pelosi’s daughter have a firmer grasp of basic moral truths than David Frum, who was George W Bush’s speechwriter....an example of how absolutely deranged the American Right’s ‘dead enders’ are now.
The @TheBabylonBee outperforms here: "Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell" https://babylonbee.com/news/hollywood-rushes-to-make-pedophilia-acceptable-before-theyre-outed-by-ghislaine-maxwell
Media circling the wagons around child pornography to make it seem a partisan matter is, on any view, simply abominable. Note that the 'highly principled' never Trump people are deathly silent (must not upset donors?) but a Tulsi Gabbard is not.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1305595782272364544
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1305595782272364544
For some time, amid much mockery , I have said that traditional conservatives have far more in common with sensible social democrats than with the libertarians....this is an example of why that is so. You can compromise on wages etc but not on this filth. https://twitter.com/reason/status/1305617073314299904
Small l liberalism has a massive blind spot when it comes to the sexualisation of children. The prioritisation of adult perversions over the protection of children is a marker of not just liberalism but a prior pagan culture now reasserting itself in all its moral evils
Always strange how so much of the media is never quite able to investigate the Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Weinstein etc stories - and then more wealthy & powerful people are charged for the most heinous of crimes occurring in almost plain sight. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/peter-nygard-custody-1.5841839
