New York Times: Protect Pedophiles as Disabled Americans

This guy's paper just ran an op-ed for pedophiles for some reason

Hey remember when crazy right wingers predicted that gay marriage would lead to legalizing polygamy? Well that happened. Also they predicted that the next step would be to seek the same civil rights protections for pedophiles.

And that’s happening in no less a forum than the New York Times which couldn’t find any terrorists to slot into its op-ed page and went with pedophilia instead.

How can you possibly make child rape sympathetic? Liberals always find a way.

Think back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not.

By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.

This is so dishonest on so many levels that if boggles the mind. Pedophilia isn’t some sort of delayed development. Like rape, it’s about power. It’s not a mental illness. No more than homosexuality is. Framing it this way suggests that it’s something everyone grows out of.

But this is the liberal playbook.

1. Make evil seem relatable and sympathetic

2. Project its actions as uncontrollable due to persecution

3. Suggest that understanding evil will prevent it from committing more abuses

All three are present here.

A second misconception is that pedophilia is a choice. Recent research, while often limited to sex offenders — because of the stigma of pedophilia — suggests that the disorder may have neurological origins.

Well if it’s not a choice, then it’s not a crime.

Men with pedophilia are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous, a finding that strongly suggests a neurological cause.

Gays are also more likely to be left-handed. But assuming that there’s a neurological cause confuses correlation with causation at best.

Without legal protection, a pedophile cannot risk seeking treatment or disclosing his status to anyone for support. He could lose his job, and future job prospects

We should make a sitcom to teach people to accept them.

There’s no question that the extension of civil rights protections to people with pedophilia must be weighed against the health and safety needs of others, especially kids. It stands to reason that a pedophile should not be hired as a grade-school teacher.

Oh you kidders. Ten years from now they’ll have to hire them or be sued for discrimination. Twenty years later, Disney will punish employees who work in the boy scouts because they won’t let pedophiles become Scoutmasters.

We already saw this movie. We know how it ends.

The direct-threat analysis rejects the idea that employers can rely on generalizations; they must assess the specific case and rely on evidence, not presuppositions. Those who worry that employers would be compelled to hire dangerous pedophiles should look to H.I.V. case law, where for years courts were highly conservative, erring on the side of finding a direct threat, even into the late 1990s, when medical authorities were in agreement that people with H.I.V. could work safely in, for example, food services.

So we shouldn’t worry that courts will force schools to hire pedophiles as teachers because they forced cafeterias to hire workers with HIV?

Arguing for the rights of scorned and misunderstood groups is never popular, particularly when they are associated with real harm.

It’s always popular when you’re a liberal. Unlike arguing for the rights of children abused by the liberal victim of the month.

The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibit discrimination against otherwise qualified individuals with mental disabilities, in areas such as employment, education and medical care. Congress, however, explicitly excluded pedophilia from protection under these two crucial laws.

Okay I’m done. Will the last one still subscribing to the New York Times please use it to clean this up.

Now the New York Times chose to run this, but censored McCain’s op-ed when he was running against Obama. That says it all.

  • cxt

    Just when I though the Left could not stoop lower.

    • Softly Bob

      Believe me they can stoop even lower than that, and probably will.

      • Juan Pablo

        Coming soon to a theater near you. Incest apologetics!

        • MarilynA

          They have already tried to normalize incest saying that it is beneficial to both parties involved. You must have missed those articles which started appearing about 6 months ago.

          • ShepherdsLamb

            You are right. There’s been an increase in not-so-subtle jokes regarding incest on tv lately. That’s their next big push.

        • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

          It’s called “The Woodsman.”

    • Gee

      They buy Caterpillar Tractors and really dig in

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      The USSR was shooting stray children in its early days as parasites. And the left defended them.

      Always assume the left has infinite depths.

      • Pete

        Really?

        Communists have done a lot of things. I am reading the biography of a communist leader. The spouse also read (skimmed) and refused yo believe half of it and they lived though th the latter 3rd of it.

        I get PTSD just reading it. It is not the type of book you read at night right before you turn the lights out.

      • Pete

        I guess what I am asking for is a link, a secondary or primary source.

        Russia exported food to pay for exports of capital goods while people starved. China did the same.

        So this is believable. That said I would still like a source.

        • UCSPanther

          I also understand that a lot of the grain that was stolen from Ukrainian Kulaks during the Holodomor ended up in N azi Germany’s larders.

          As such, I find it very hypocritical when Neo-N azi scum use the holodomor as a club to attack Jews with when in fact, their “beloved” regime was actually a benefactor of that atrocity.

          • Pete

            That is the communist MO.

        • Daniel_Greenfield

          I read it in a history of the period. I don’t recall a specific source, but read up on Bezprizorni.

      • tagalog

        Children are lumpenproletarians. They produce nothing and are a net drain on the economy.

      • Frau Katze

        The writer is getting hammered in the comments (at NYT) but just give it time.

        • Pete

          What? True believers will come out and support the NYT and show that support by flooding the comments section supporting the op-ed?

          Such people could show support for such an ideal when it is only local superiority and not a truly representative sample of America.

          But if they will try influence operations in web forums they might try it for this topic.

      • Pete

        Like I said I am looking for sources.

        Simple or even advanced web searches do not always give good results.

        I get references to Beslan, T-4 Euthanasia, and other stuff. These are important topics and I already know about them. I know about the Hodomor, and Tambov. What I want to know is if the Soviets have a policy that you mentioned.

        HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER? By R.J. Rummel

        “”Democide vs genocide. Which is what?”
        “War isn’t this century’s biggest killer”

        Mass killings under Communist regimes

        Just because I know ANSI SQL and it translates well in understanding how to search the web, does not mean I find what I am looking for. A lot of the time it comes up snake eyes.

    • Notmymess

      Horsecrap! This is NOT a left-right, issue. You don’t see the Dems demanding that we accept this and wish to lower the age of consent. Nor the Repubs either. If my children were molested and I found out, we wouldn’t have to involve the court since I would slit the pervert’s throat! And I am a liberal.

      • Pete

        It is your mess. It is a left-right issue.

        The NYT might not be the Newspaper of record for American anymore, but it is a newspaper of record for those Left of center.

        You won’t see the National Review, The Washington Times, The Washington Free Beacon, The America Spectator, The American Thinker run a op ed like the NYT just did.

        The NYT has a token conservative columnist. We don;t much like him either. HE think he has Stockholm syndrome and is not very conservative anymore.

        Now if Mother Jones, The New Republic and The Nation come out consistently against this, then I will think it is a one off. But until then …No.

      • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

        Sorry, but the Dems and leftists have a consistent empty-the-prisons, anti-incarceration platform, and furthermore, all the “brain research” used in the Times article to justify their claims is pushed by leftist groups that make up the heart of your ideological persuasion.

        It is the leftist platform. Own it.

        Just as I own the fact that too many on my side have abandoned conservatism’s law-and-order-as-the cornerstone of freedom messaging for lazy, offender-centric, leftist views on incarceration and justice.

        When I worked with victim services on the left, they were FAR more interested in enforcing political correctness than getting animalistic offenders off the streets. Those tendencies now dominate the left even more, as in the campus rape movement, which seeks to demonize all men rather than actually convict real offenders in real courts.

        • Pete
          • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

            Victim services people tend to be service providers, helping people recover from real crimes. In my experience the direct service provision people mostly have little use for campus politics, which are getting more and more unhinged as universities rake in federal crime cash to invent kangaroo courts and lynch mobs — while simultaneously trying to undermine the real justice system. I never thought it would get this crazy, frankly.

      • Pete

        “since I would slit the pervert’s throat!” – NotmyMess

        Not that I would rebuke you in some cases, but I have to ask how liberal being a vigilante is?

      • Mo86

        Pete’s comment says it all.

      • ShepherdsLamb

        I admire your determination to protect your children, but it is a leftist issue.

    • Mo86

      I’m sure they will find a way to go even lower.

  • dba_vagabond_trader

    Funny how the left went through hurdles to remove other sexual disorders such as transexualism from the mental illness list, now this. Very suspicious indeed.

  • Servo1969

    Scholars can theorize and pontificate as much as they wish.
    I will protect my children with my life if necessary.

    • kafir4life

      I’d rather protect my children with the lives of those that wish them harm.

      • MukeNecca

        You beat me to it!
        (see my comment below)

    • MukeNecca

      “I will protect my children with my life if necessary.

      I would first try to protect my children with the life of the pervert who threatens them. Your scenario would be my second option.

      • http://1389blog.com/ 1389AD

        Exactly.

  • roccolore

    Liberals would rather protect perverts than military veterans.

    • kafir4life

      That makes sense, tho’. They have much more in common with them.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Well the deeper context is of course Sharia, which the Times clearly is a proponent of.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      Just wait till the Islamophobia and Mohammedphobia and cultural relativism arguments kick in.

  • Melvin Polatnick

    Small tool syndrome has been found to be present in 943 pedophiles examined by the UN psychological organization. The cure is possible if an extension was provided.

  • Pete

    “We should make a sitcom to teach people to accept them.”‘

    Yes, that is the way it works as the readers here know is true and as you have pointed out often.

    As an aside the propaganda also goes on at BS. I saw a Bill Moyers advertisement. It said the opposite of poverty was not wealth but Justice. My blood ran cold at that propaganda.

    Sure Bill Moyers can speak freely but why do i as a taxpayer have to pay his salary to spew crap?

  • bob e

    this would have nothing to do with mohammed , the perfect paedo
    would it ?? .. ny getting ready for the sharia ?? of course the moderate
    muslims have to obey & worship the same paedo along with the same
    instruction manual .. thats how you can tell they are moderate .. right ??

  • wileyvet

    I think someone at the NY Times is a pedophile and trying desperately to reach out for help. Every societal ill that plagues America today can be laid squarely at the feet of progressives, Liberals and Leftists. Ironically it was Progressives who firmly believed that human behaviour and thus humans themselves could be altered, tweaked and ultimately perfected. They also, funny enough, pinned malignant behaviour on society itself. Therefore they thought, until society changes we couldn’t expect people to change. All of these ideas guided their belief in the, if not absolute perfectibility of humans, then at least a concerted effort by elite social thinkers using society at large as a giant experimental Petri Dish would usher in the world they would like to see. At the same time dropping every societal norm, lowering every standard, thrashing decent values, elimination of moral principles and the general debasing of humans.

    One hundred years later the culmination of their programs in the pursuit of the chimerical Utopia has produced the massive social dysfunction that we see today. Every idea from criminal reform, to education reform, prohibition, the feminist movement, War on Poverty, The Great Society, immigration etc. has begat one unintended consequence after another. Then like a person suffering Munchhausen by Proxy they appeal for more legislation, more funds to fix the problem of their own making. Of course that is in keeping in their never ending goal of power. They tried to stop people from being intoxicated with liquor, yet no one has ever stopped them from the intoxicating effects of power over humans and the society in which they live.

    So now it has come to this. Endorsing the protection of pedophiles in the guise of a disability eh? The only solution to the present ills is to physically isolate Liberals by relocation to some vast tract of land where they can freely build the New World Freak Show Utopia of their dreams. A place where every sordid, perverse practice can thrive. A pure Marxist economy can be implemented in the interest of fairness and economic justice, no law enforcement, no military, total gun control, nothing that could hurt the environment, packed with gays and lesbians, pimps and hos, hip hop gang bangers, drug addicts, illiterate welfare bums, commie professors, 3rd world disease carriers, and of course pedophiles. And the newspaper of choice, no I take that back since Lefties don’t actually believe in choice. The newspaper of mandatory reading would be The New York Times extolling the pure awesomeness of their newly created Utopia.

    • MarilynA

      What these social planners have produced is a carbon copy of Sodom and Gomorrah, which, if you remember, were destroyed because of their aberrant social practices. As if AIDS were not enough of a plague spread by unnatural aberrant behavior, we now flirt with turning our kids into mentally ill social misfits who are more likely to become serial rapists, killers, and other psychopaths. Way to go guys!

    • Lightbringer

      “The only solution to the present ills is to physically isolate Liberals by relocation to some vast tract of land where they can freely build the New World Freak Show Utopia of their dreams.”

      Except that they cannot build anything; they can only destroy what far better men have built. They would starve or freeze in no time flat.

  • tagalog

    The logic of equality. How can we single out pedophiles when they meet the legal definition of being disabled? Our children will just have to pay the price of insuring equality for all.

    • nightspore

      This is the way to deal with people whose behavior “is not a choice”.

      • tagalog

        Good point. There are things that are not a choice, then there are things that are REALLY not a choice.

  • De Doc

    One wonders when sociopathic, serial killers will also get their own DSM-5 code and the attendant disability rating. We wouldn’t want to show any untoward bigotry against these folks too.

    • truebearing

      Absolutely. One man’s serial killer is another man’s homosexual lover, and we can’t discriminate just because we want to live.

      But malignant narcissism still won’t have its own code because too many narcissistic, petty, goofy, power mongers became psychologists — so they could cure themselves. They couldn’t cure themselves, so now they want to legislate “normacly” and supplant morality with political correctness.

  • Juan Pablo

    One wonders whether a trend setter can accidently jump FORWARD too far, and their followers suddenly rebel realizing where they’re being lead.
    I don’t have such hope for your average leftist though

  • C. Gee

    Liberals can always rise to the challenge of proving ever-greater compassion. The nastier the person they forgive, the more moral they are. Cop-killers, terrorists, now pedophiles – they’re human, more human because the norms of society are against them and they are victims. They deserve civil liberties, to be free from social stigma. There are some criminals, though, that are too ugly for compassion or even due process. Respect for accused male college student date-rapists, Israel or Republicans would destroy a liberal’s sense of self-worth and his humanity. To empathize with them would shatter his moral image. These criminals are devils, deserving escalating, spit-flecked hatred.

  • kafir4life

    Should you ever find yourself in agreement with a leftist, you’re both wrong.

  • Biff Henderson

    The QWERTY quorum is pleased to announce that through our tireless efforts in reshuffling the language of mental illness you are no longer a sick piece of sh^t. What a glorious day it will be when children are liberated from being stigmatized as the victims of abuse. Social reform demands of all we leave no child behind.
    Sarc/off
    Touch my grandchild and you will experience my approach to changing the social fabric of America.

    • Lightbringer

      I like the way you think, Biff. This ferocious old granny would do likewise.

      • Biff Henderson

        Funny thing about change, sometimes it can be rather abrupt – robbing the life force of its capacity to process said change.

  • Steve L Hampton

    I still say the writers and editors at the NYT would have fit in well with the Nazi’s. Those poor SS troops, just couldn’t help themselves killing Jews left and right. The allied troops should have protected them after the war and not prosecuted them. I can see this same warped logic protecting ISIS these days. S

  • Notmymess

    Forget being a liberal or conservative on this issue. That’s crap and makes one side seem accepting to this nonsense and the other the enemy. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse for years, I can tell you, unequivocally, that this IS all about power! The NYT would have us believe that this is harmless and not a mental disorder, Even the APA states that is not a disorder, but an “interest.” Balderdash! A pedophile who does not act on the desires is one thing, but they are a minority and, imho, those who act on it should be subject to the death penalty, since they give us a life sentence.

    • truebearing

      The APA has been completely taken over by leftist fools. Ironically, after all of their anti-religion blather, they are turning psychology into a hybrid between religion and political ideology. Psychologists are becoming Sociologists. Their capacity to understand humans, or truth, is diminished by their mindless dogmatism to the point that they are more of a harm to society, and their patients, than a benefit.

    • Lightbringer

      How horrible, what was done to you! And you’re calling it right; if the parents of an abused child don’t take the initiative, the courts should.

  • MukeNecca

    To the site’s moderator:

    Why are my last two comments barred?
    Could you please let me know in what way do they contravene the posting rules of the site?

  • William556

    I’m surprised that it has taken them this long. It was clearly coming eventually and will almost certainly pass. However, as awful as this is, if certain Blue Cities and States wanted to pass it, let them, just don’t let the special interest groups force it on the rest of the country like they are going with other issues. Let the experiment run for maybe 10 years and see how it turns out.

  • MukeNecca

    test

  • Brian Bonner

    You are helping the enemy. They want pedophilia removed from the psych treatment manual like they did w/ homosexuality so that it can also be ‘accepted’ as normal like homosexuality. So, pleas don’t help them

  • truebearing

    And people wonder howtotalitarianism descends into mass murder. Tyhe moral nihilism of the Left is a continuum into utter depravity. Ultimately, human lives are sacrificed on the altar of this warped cult. marxism is ideologically induced sociopathy.

  • laura r

    its been proven to be INcurable. whether its a physical or disorder, there is no cure. end of case.

    • tagalog

      Well, there’s no MEDICAL cure. There are cures for it.

  • laura r

    daniel could this be the islamic influence?

  • herb benty

    The convulsions the left go through to justify evil is interesting to watch but depressing because they are serious. Giving up God’s guidance means you’re open to anything, as this article shows.

  • kazzer66

    If they mean by ‘protect’ to castrate and lobotomize…I’m all for that.

  • Dan Knight

    Again, brilliant, and brave analysis Daniel.

    Incredible … we’ve known this was coming, but it’s still shocking to see a ‘trial balloon’ like this. Like so many loopy lefty ideas, it’ll float around awhile until a crisis comes along to capsize the status quo, and presto anyone who thinks molesting children is a bad idea will be a pedophobe who opposes child marriage and ‘early love’ or some such nonsense.

  • simgiran

    The author of this piece is very brave fighting a straw man he himself created. The article on NYT says pedophiles can’t stop being attracted towards children, not that they don’t have a choice but to sexually abuse a child.

    And no, pedophilia is not about power. Pedophiles are attracted very specifically to prepubescent children. They aren’t attracted generally to weaker people.

  • Debbie G

    “….many of whom suffer terribly from this condition and never harm a soul.” Do we have any statistics on that?

    • fvckoffallah

      There is no large-scale statistics due to stigma, that’s the problem NYT revealed in the article.

  • UCSPanther

    Try telling that to people who were victimized by pedophilia.

  • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

    Ender, you are missing the point of both the article and the comment thread. And hopping up on that brave pony “shame on you” suggests to me that there is another agenda lurking.

    The NYT piece was the one being dishonest. They’re lying about the treatment that does already exist. And they’re trying to make a civil rights cause along the lines of consensual sexual choice out of a disorder that, yes, should be treated (and it is — most molesters still receive probation type sentences with therapy interventions). But we have spent 50 years making crimes like molestation more prevalent by being too lenient on offenders, and all that brain scan nonsense is just fake science trying to further reduce offenders’ responsibilities for their crimes.

  • Mo86

    If homosexuals can claim to be born that way, pedophiles can as well.

  • Karen

    And what about the children involved? Who’s to protect them? When raped or attacked by a pedophile, it damages them, and that’s something they have to live with the rest of their lives. No, no protection for these people regardless of whether it’s a neurological problem or not. They need to be kept away from children…as far away as possible. If it’s found that they have exercised their “right” to do as they please, then they need to be put away, so there’s never again the chance of harming another child.

  • fvckoffallah

    What’s bad in bestiality?

  • fvckoffallah

    If you are sure that you’ll never molest a child then what’s the problem? What therapy do you need? And why do you need to call yourself a pedo at all or why do you need public acceptance? I mean you do not tell everybody if you are circumcised or not, so why do you need to reveal that you are a pedo, why not just live usual life?

  • esther4

    Pinch Salzbergers Father is spinning in his grave from this depravity. The NYTimes has never sunk lower.