One of the more prophetic pronouncements I’ve read in the last decade was conservative blogger David Robertson’s 2017 prediction of the exact slippery slope we are currently plummeting down. Robertson wrote that, after SSM, it would be Transgender and then the removal of gender altogether… this would then be followed by polyamory, polygamy, incest and then paedophilia.
The only thing that Robertson got wrong was thinking that there would be so many steps between the start and finish. Because the “rainbow” left has skipped polyamory and incest after the barest consideration and ploughed straight into more-or-less open paedophilia advocacy.
As Robertson said — 100% correctly — The way it will happen is for paedophilia first of all to be defined as an illness and a sexuality. Then in popular culture we will gradually get ‘Lolita’ stories seeking to make a sympathetic ‘non-judgemental’ case. By then there will be so many people who through the internet, and the sexual philosophy that you should do whatever you want, are prepared and ready to accept a mild form.
If anyone doubts that that is exactly where we’re being steered, consider the following from the beacon of the left establishment, The Washington Post.
Take a deep breath and try to ruminate calmly on the position playwright Bruce Norris takes in his scintillating new play, “Downstate”: that the punishments inflicted on some pedophiles are so harsh and unrelenting as to be inhumane.
That’s right: we’re just being too mean to the poor paedos. This is not a new argument, of course: activists and media have lately pushed the idea that we shouldn’t brand child sex offenders as “paedophiles”. Because it might make some paedophiles — the so-called “NOMAPS” — feel a bit marginalised. The poor dears.
“Downstate,” directed with exceptional astuteness by Pam MacKinnon, seizes on our reflexive response to these crimes and shifts our emotional focus to the perpetrators […]
Norris, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Clybourne Park,” a bracingly funny play about race and gentrification inspired by “A Raisin in the Sun,” goes here for another societal jugular.
See? Paedophile rights are the new Civil Rights! Which was pretty much the line taken by the pro-paedophile left in the 70s and early 80s. It’s all about liberation, man!
He’s loaded the dice to some degree in “Downstate,” as the predators who’ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls […]
it is made even thornier by the drama’s most disagreeable character, a victim of Fred’s, now grown up and portrayed all too irritatingly well by Tim Hopper […]
The playwright cannot hide his scorn for Andy [the victim], who has made a successful life for himself as a Chicago finance guy and now seems intent on some kind of purging reunion with the man who molested him as a child on a piano bench. The meeting seems to be part of Andy’s therapy, which “Downstate” implies may be advisable but at this point also suggests that it is an indulgent marinating in self-pity.
The Washington Post
In other words: stories seeking to make a sympathetic ‘non-judgemental’ case. Here we have the paedophile portrayed as the sympathetic character, the victim as the “disagreeable character”.
Is any of this disproving Robertson’s prediction in any way?
Just in case you missed the point, WaPo goes out of its way to compare the “Sympathy for the Nonces” play with past controversial plays about feminism and prudish 19th-century morality.
But, sure: tell me there’s no agenda to normalise paedophilia.