“You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means,” he told the hosts of a podcast. “Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.”
It’s a difficult distinction to make in front of the mob though.
Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos resigns ……
It is a hard argument to make at the best of times. I don’t think there is a large community of parents who go around saying “Thank God he had his first wet dream before his teacher forcibly sodomised him”.
Gay people don’t really make a hard and fast distinction between homosexuality and paedophilia. This is a much harder distinction to make.
“Gay people don’t really make a hard and fast distinction between homosexuality and paedophilia”
Some gay people. Just like some straight people don’t. The rate is about the same.
And before you bring up that gay couple in Australia who adopted a boy to abuse, do try and find another case or two – extrapolating from one data point is a bit silly. Especially when there’s plenty of cases of straight pedophiles doing the same thing.
If children in the Belgium can “consent” to be euthanised, why shouldn’t they be able to consent to sex?
I decided to listen to the whole Milo interview, which I think is this:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d0_1487637258
It’s 15mins of silly banter.
Amazing that it could be the bloke’s Ron Burgundy “F U San Diego” moment.
Matthew L – “Some gay people. Just like some straight people don’t. The rate is about the same.”
Please cite a case where heterosexuals have had any problems calling paedophilia paedophilia. As opposed to, say, Wikipedia which regularly describes paedophiles as homosexuals.
“And before you bring up that gay couple in Australia who adopted a boy to abuse, do try and find another case or two – extrapolating from one data point is a bit silly.”
There have been at least two cases in Australia of a gay couple abusing their own children. In this case, a man and his boyfriend sexually assaulted his own 10 month daughter:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3680293/Ten-month-old-baby-raped-father-boyfriend-three-hour-attack-taken-away-MOTHER-police-investigate-harrowing-alleged-abuse-men-later-boasted-Skype.html
Although I agree Gay seems the wrong word. Gender Queer?
“Especially when there’s plenty of cases of straight pedophiles doing the same thing.”
Name three. Although if Heterosexuals were offending at the same rate you would need to find 2 or 3 hundred similar cases.
Another Gay may who cannot keep his paedophilia separate from his homosexuality:
So Peter Tatchell published a chapter arguing for man-boy love in a book published by a member of the PIE?
And yet he is a beloved respected admired member of the Gay community to this day. Milo gets read out of the heterosexual community. Tatchell will probably get an OBE
Ah, Ron Burgundy moment was probably around here, from 1:02:00, where he supposedly defends paedos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azC1nm85btY
I’m guessing the guys running that Youtube show didn’t think much of it till it blew up. They seem surprised.
“Loose lips sink ships”
Milo is a casualty of war. For war it is and we cannot expect an unbroken series of victories. Esp when the enemy has a volcanically hot fountain of emotional bullshit as their main weapon.
Milo himself has thrown lots of cold water on the hot rocks of the lefts faux “poor-little-Gays-we-are-your-only-friends” crap. But a careless word allowed them to line him up in the sights of their newest and still lively femmishite geyser–The Paedo Panic. The falsely-accused shade of Jimmy Savile seems to have taken him down.
The moral: let all strikes be surgical. Gob control–don’t be shooting it off in bullshit sessions.
From the NYT:
“If you halved Donald Trump’s age, changed his sexual orientation, gave him a British accent and fussed with his hair only a little, you’d end up with a creature much like Milo Yiannopoulos.”
I know it’s in the opinion section, but that’s what passes for journalism now.
@smfs,
Not so many years ago many heterosexual paedophiles were openly advocating for its legalisation, under less threatening sounding euphemisms. In west germany they had their own Political party (greens).
Of course, after the sh1tst0rm dies down, I would like to suggest that the difference is very important. This first is abnormal; it isn’t normal to be attracted to a pre-pubescent and suggests that perpetrators have a mental health issues that cannot be solved by a prison term and probably need locking in a mental institution permanently as they will always be a danger.
The second is akin to rape; it is evolutionary explainable but as civilised humans , completely unacceptable and thus is a crime that should be punished by heavy sentencing and treatment; these individuals could probably be eventually released if the experts feel they accept and regret their crime(s).
Bloke in Germany in St Albans – “Not so many years ago many heterosexual paedophiles were openly advocating for its legalisation, under less threatening sounding euphemisms. In west germany they had their own Political party (greens).”
The amusing thing is that you think this was a heterosexual effort.
Yes, the Greens were deeply complicit in child abuse. But I am not sure how much of it was paedophilia – does letting a child play with your penis for political, as opposed to sexual, reasons count? Even that part that was paedophilia looks pretty Gay to me. As in Britain.
Mr Ecks:
“Gob control-don’t be shooting it off in bullshit sessions.”
Er…
Chuckle. That’s why most of us keep it anonymous!
I’m often surprised by the topics Tim Newman covers, given I assume that’s his real name.
In some ways, sad times we live in.
I’m often surprised by the topics Tim Newman covers, given I assume that’s his real name.
It is. In hindsight I should have started blogging anonymously but it’s too late for that now. I got hammered by my employer for this article, even though their doing so breached the company policies and prevailing employment law. Since then I’ve avoided writing about oil and gas, but I’m prepared to lose my job and be stuck doing minimum wage work* rather than worry about what potential employers think of me. I write about controversial stuff but I don’t think I adopt any extreme positions: if I’m excluded by an employer on the basis of what I write on my blog, then I’d rather not work for them.
*This comes mainly from the fact that I don’t have kids and I did rather well as an expat in an oil boom: barring some catastrophic event like illness, etc. which could see me skint and out on the street, I can get by without working for a while.
Yeah he lost a good gig basically with that Father Michael joke. But for me there was a prior mistake. Milo mixed his sentiments about the age of consent with his usual dialectic of “what i hate about the left is…”
That part of the age of consent being a leftist thing is just factually wrong and so it came across as: “what i hate about the current widely approved of law to protect children is…”
Listening to the whole DPs episode it was akin to special pleading for the homosexual community. And that’s very strange coming from Milo. No we don’t want to make laws up for the benefit of individual sections of society. Milo’s meant to be fighting against all proposed and agitated for discriminatory laws and rules based on identity being imposed on us.
Milo must have been that kid at school who was bright and witty but always got you into trouble if you sat next to him because he never knew when to stop.
There is something quite pathetic about him revelling in being offensive when the people being offended are of the Left. But when it is people on the Right who are offended by him then he comes over all, “Pwease sir, I didn’t weally mean it” and falling back on his identity as a gay man to justify what he said – just like Lefties!!
If he wants to be a free speech fundamentalist like he brands himself then he should grow some balls and continue offending the left and right alike. might not be so many book sales in that though.
Maybe he can make NAMBLA cool and relevant to a younger generation…
But when it is people on the Right who are offended by him then he comes over all, “Pwease sir, I didn’t weally mean it” and falling back on his identity as a gay man to justify what he said – just like Lefties!!
To be honest, the last few months on Twitter have seen his opponents repeatedly cite examples of him issuing writs to media firms who call him nasty names, and complaining that he is being victimised and singled out for abuse (of the non-physical kind). They have a point when they say this is somewhat inconsistent with his whole raison d’etre of free speech and “feelings don’t matter”.
Tim Newman – “I got hammered by my employer for this article, even though their doing so breached the company policies and prevailing employment law.”
That article and the comments were, as Da Yoof would say, f&*king epic.
But have some children. The gene pool needs you.
The age of consent is a social construct, because there’s nothing magical about a particular birthday. It varies from country to country, and it has varied through time. Mostly, it was to protect girls, who pre-puberty would be damaged, and post-puberty could become pregnant. Clearly, some further physical development post-puberty would seem to be necessary if pregnancy is not to be a death sentence. After that, it resolves itself into issues of mental maturity.
Some of the homosexual arguments are because pregnancy does not apply.
As for me, I think it is about right in the UK and other civilised countries when we are dealing with normal, civilised, citizens. The law does seem to be misapplied sometimes, but generally it comes down harder on people who abuse a position of authority and less hard on teenagers experimenting. The bad cases are those where law has been applied too rigidly – or too loosely.
Also re the distinction between paedo/hebo/ephebo – I was earlier watching coverage of Milo’s press conference and the seemingly pro-Milo conservative presenter was reading out a tweet from a viewer talking about those distinctions. The look of confusion on his face as he said “I don’t know what any of those words mean” was quite amusing.
It reminds me of those racial justice types who claim it’s impossible for non-whites to be racist, only “prejudiced” or “discriminatory”
or cannibals who tries to distinguish themselves because they only eat the flesh of found corpses rather than murdering their food first.
When it comes to taboos, rule breakers can be seen as cutting too fine a distinction…
But have some children. The gene pool needs you.
Take it up with Ms. Sharapova. She’s not putting out on the dubious grounds that she has no idea who the f*ck I am.
Tim Newman – “Take it up with Ms. Sharapova. She’s not putting out on the dubious grounds that she has no idea who the f*ck I am.”
Yeah but what are those drugs doing to her? Maybe her photos are all photoshoped. I have seen some East German athletes. Perhaps you should move on to some other leggy, moody, alcoholic, depressive Slav with borderline personality disorder?
On the plus side she is 29 so she is probably thinking about it. And of course no one would accuse you of ephebophilia
Witchie,
“The age of consent is a social construct, because there’s nothing magical about a particular birthday”
Law in its entirety is a social contruct, A better documented one than others true. I forget the Latin tag but its generally held exceptions make bad law. Thus advocating a change to the age of consent to benefit this particular subset of humans is a bad argument. Now that’s not what Milo’s in hot water for, but you know ignoring the drama of being shocked by a schockmeister, that’s the best that can be taken from what Milo said, And it’s still deeply unconvincing.
“Some gay people. Just like some straight people don’t. The rate is about the same.” How can anyone know that?
I love Milo. He’s a funny, smart, courageous man with fabulous hair.
He’s done nothing objectively wrong. Nobody – including the folks engaged in the orchestrated smear campaign against him – believes he has ever harmed a child or would harm a child or condones harming children.
His mistake was believing that his motormouth shock jock persona would insulate him from a good old fashioned media witch hunt. As many outrageous entertainer-provocateurs have discovered before him, it only takes a few cherry-picked off-the-cuff remarks to gin up the outrage mill.
Hopefully he’ll bounce back from this and become more fabulous than ever.
Smfs,
The Cockburnspath stroking exercise was in a kindergarten, and publicised in an autobiography. Savile apparently at least insinuated some of his crimes in books back in the day, so there were at least then very different attitudes back then.
As to whether gays are or are not more likely than heterosexuals to be paedophiles (or more importantly to act on such), you will need to come up with some actual data there, anecdata isn’t really valid. It will be very hard to do since homosexuality is a self definition, and merely asking the question will have you down as a fascist Bastard.
Damn autocorrect. Phone is stuck in German mode but that doesn’t account for Cockburnspath.
“Hopefully he’ll bounce back from this and become more fabulous than ever.”
Yes. Saw the press conference. He apologised for a couple of things he said on the DP stream. I take it for making light of abusive relationships (as it happens his own) and for appearing to defend statutory rape. But he’s not going anywhere, will still publish the book, will still do what he does under a different banner.
I can’t help but think of Tim N’s point that as you go mainstream you just have to tone it down. Too much ammo for all the people who he’s annoyed. That is the conventional way,, but still i get the feeling from his conference that he intends to preserve the edginess under different banners. He mentioned comedy and entertainment in the conf. And it seems credible that clearly labelling something under those banners gives you more leeway to shock and get away with it. So i expect they’ll be both serious writing about issues book and website format and rule breaking “entertainment” live shows.
You better slow down and stop texting while you drive Biggie.
It would be just terrible if you got Marc Bolan’d–and in the UK as well. What a badge of shame when you could have gone out in a blaze of glory doing 120 on an Autobahn.
Hallowed Be – Yes. Watching his press conference, I felt sorry and proud for him at the same time.
The burning boy in the green jersey. With that legendary, fabulous sidestep and brave, terrified smile.
Is most of the damage to the Right from this just self-inflicted?
The baying mobs that hate Milo might have something new to bay about, but if it wasn’t this it’d be something else anyway. Can’t see any practical difference being made there.
CPAC uninviting him and (the rumour of) Breitbart staff threatening to quit if he didn’t walk, that seems to be where the damage is.
The book deal he can work around, as he’s had plenty of publicity already.
Those folks in the middle, the ones you should have to work on persuading, I genuinely wonder how many of them give a shit.
I’m thinking back to when the LibLabCon folks try to decapitate UKIP by ganging up in South Thanet. Instead of giving up at that setback, ultimately thinking “ah fuck it” and carrying on worked for Nige. They’ve never let the “un-resignation” thing go, but so what? He still won the big prize; they still lost.
@Fecks,
Actually, I was in the boozer.
I don’t drive much, but when on the Autobahn, it’s 240, not 120.
The problem with Milo is that he apologised. You should never apologise as this is something that the illiberal left will use to attack you with; your choice is to either double down on what you said or to explain it so that the masses can laugh at the hysterical regressives. But never, ever apologise.
Stumbled across this cross-cultural insanity-profanity tonight, and there seemed just enough context to merit posting here. I think Milo would approve and, anyway, it’s a laugh; though perhaps not at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXx7LZdrqHE