Washington Post Publishes Jailbait Apologist (Ain’t I Done Told You So?)

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Besty Karasik is an airhead who quit her job as a laywer to become a painter. Whatever the art community gained by that transaction, the legal community lost no wisdom. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Karasik argues for decriminalizing student-teacher sex:

[W]ith our legal and moral codes failing us, our society needs to have an uncensored dialogue about the reality of sex in schools. . . .
I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.  . . .
[T]he utter hysteria with which society responds to these situations does less to protect children than to assuage society’s need to feel that we are protecting them.

See, the problem is not teachers having sex with students. No, the real problem is the “utter hysteria” about this, and “society’s need to feel” that children are protected. In other words, the problem is your irrationality, whereas teachers banging their students . . . well,  they’re in need of understanding and sympathy. Teachers who have sex with kids are victims, really — victims of your “utter hysteria.”

Coincidentally, I had just been re-reading Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed, which addresses this rhetorical trick:

A concern that is important to the anointed is called “a matter of principle,” while a concern that is important to the benighted is called “an emotional issue.” Apparently other people don’t have reasons or principles; all they have are emotions.

So if you think teachers having sex with students should be criminally prosecuted, Karasik dismisses you as a hysteric. By contrast, Karasik’s own enthusiasms — “My loyalty is to justice and the planet,” she declares on her Twitter profile — she regards as entirely valid.

Betsy Karasik’s experience is simply superior to yours:

I’ve been a 14-year-old girl, and so have all of my female friends. When it comes to having sex on the brain, teenage boys got nothin’ on us. When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, the sexual boundaries between teachers and students were much fuzzier. Throughout high school, college and law school, I knew students who had sexual relations with teachers. To the best of my knowledge, these situations were all consensual in every honest meaning of the word, even if society would like to embrace the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex. Although some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died.

You have never been a 14-year-old girl, so your opinion doesn’t count. And if you have been a 14-year-old girl, but still don’t think it should be legal for teachers to have sex with students? Well, never mind your objections, because Betsy Karasik says it’s just fine.

No harm, no foul — maybe some bruised feelings, but teachers banging their students is really only a problem because of “society” which, having already been condemned for its “utter hysteria,” she now diagnoses as being in the grip of “the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex.” But is this really what society believes? Are “hysteria” and “fantasy” the basis of our laws? Are there no valid reasons to treat student-teacher sex as a crime?

After saying that workplace sexual harassment is worse than consensual sex between teenagers and teachers, Karasik alludes in passing to “certain teachers I considered friends despite their sexual relations with students.” Who are these teachers? Would she be so kind as to tell us their names, so that we might examine whether (as Karasik assures us) their sexual involvement with students was harmless?

But, no, she just throws this strange fact out there — some of Betsy Karasik’s friends are teachers who have sex with their students — and continues with her condemnation of society:

The point is that there is a vast and extremely nuanced continuum of sexual interactions involving teachers and students, ranging from flirtation to mutual lust to harassment to predatory behavior. Painting all of these behaviors with the same brush sends a damaging message to students and sets the stage for hypocrisy and distortion of the truth. Many teenagers are, biologically speaking, sexually mature. Pretending that this kind of thing won’t happen if we simply punish it severely enough is delusional.

Her rhetoric — “utter hysteria . . . fantasy . . . delusional” — is deliberately dismissive. All who disagree with Betsy Karasik are irrational, or are too stupid to understand that “vast and extremely nuanced continuum” of which enligthened people like herself are aware.

It’s not as if you couldn’t predict that such arguments would be made as our culture slid slowly down the slippery slope. In April 2002, I published an article with the headline, “Promoting pedophilia; Attempts to legitimize adult-child sex on rise,” and there were people then who said that such concerns were irrational.

In January of this year, Rush Limbaugh warned about “a movement to normalize pedophilia,” and was mocked by Soledad O’Brien.

Well, here we are in August, and the Washington Post is publishing columns advocating the legalization of student-teacher sex.

Wesley J. Smith at National Review says, “How low can we go? I am afraid we are going to find out.” Betsy Karasik finds herself shocked by the “tsunami of attackers” on Twitter:

Of course, in her mind, the “tsunami” only confirms to Betsy Karasik that “society” is hysterical and delusional. She wants to “open discussion” about legalizing sex with 14-year-olds. And when society answers back, “Oh, hell, no”? This just proves you’re crazy.

 

 

UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread, with further commentary by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air and Tim Graham at the Media Research Center, but I like Stephen Kruiser’s solution best: “Kill the media.”

The world is full of idiots with bad ideas and the editors of the Washington Post are obligated to publish only the very worst of them. One cannot reform such institutions as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but can only pray for their well-deserved destruction, because their wicked depravity is not accidental.

The publishers are amoral monsters, their editors are active agents of evil, and their deliberate policy is to employ no honest or decent person. Nor could any honest or decent person ever wish to be associated with publications whose daily business is the destruction of Western civilization. A Christian would no more desire to be published by the Washington Post than to work in an abortion clinic or a bordello. It is a disgraceful stain on the conscience of our nation.

Fact: It’s hard to type when your fingers are trembling with rage.

UPDATE II: A couple of trolls got zapped. Wombat seems to be offline today, so I had to wield the troll-hammer myself, especially since one of these was a false-flag moby troll — the very worst kind, worse even than concern trolls. The comments are moderated and, while the proprietors obviously do not approve of everything in the comments (hell, I never even see most of them), there are certain lines that shall not be crossed, and vicious creatures who use bogus identities for deliberate evil will be zapped. If necessary, you will be IP-banned.

Go troll somewhere else, you monstrous fucktards.

 


301 comments

  5. So called “JoeD”. So you have nothing to say against the apologists for pedophilia, but save up all your scorn for a woman who has pointed out what we all know about homosexuality and what has proven to be true about it through all of recorded history. I suppose youve never heard of NAMBLA? Your hero Harvey Milk marched with them. Alessandra’s commentary is, as always, spot on. I condemn you as a gay troll who supports the normalization of pedophilia.

  6. I think you need to understand the demographic. Betsy is an apologist for pedophilia, a child of the 60’s, now old and shriveled up, wishing she could recapture the halcyon days of being a slut, If you can’t personally be wanted, the next best thing is to be an advocate for old folks stealing the virtue of children. Liberalism is the disease that never quits giving.

  8. Called for what? To carry on the work of Heinrich Himmler? You’re an arrogant and twisted human being just like everyone of your predecessors that pursued the same calling.

  11. So, as a Democrat troll, you oppose the normalization of pedophilia and think Harvey Milk was wrong to support NAMBLA! Great, welcome aboard.

  12. That’s what you took from my comment? That I’m asking excuses for one group over the other? You not only are you nuts but can’t read written English. I’m saying pedophilia has no orientation an is committed by both gays and heterosexuals. You on the other hand are saying that pedophilia is an extension of homosexuality which the evidence shows it clearly isn’t dummy, Now give up your hate crusade against gay people move on. And FYI it’s not “my side” since Im not gay but having known many gay people throughout my life and that they aren’t the grotesque caricatures you portray them as loser, I will defend them against you and your hateful ilk and your demonization of them. Now drop dead, cunt. And you are a Himmler as he had the same animosity toward homosexuals and locked them up with the Jews.

    http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/

    Everything written their could just as easily come from one your disturbed blog posts you fucking evil blight on humanity.

  14. What a piece of mental masturbatory garbage. Liberal spigots like teachers should be given a pass on criminal behavior.

    The wind blows
    I’ll lean into the wind
    My anger grows
    I’ll use it to win
    The more you say
    The more I defy you
    So get out of my way 

  15. And of course, I raise a perfectly reasonable objection that perhaps sex between a 16 and 23 year old isn’t rape and be demonized by the brainless. Go fuck yourself.

  16. Are you suggesting statutory rape should be called by some euphemism? Why is that? Could it be you dont think adults having sexual relations with kids is really such a bad thing?

  17. ahem, the vitriol-filled post of Joe was deleted while I was replying. I’ll just post the links to a few interesting posts on the subject of Nazis and homosexuals.

    Enjoy:

    http://alessandrareflections.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/blogsome-nazis-hitler-rohm-and-homosexuality/

    and one of my favorites posts:

    Nazi homosexuals – an inconvenient reality for liberals

    http://alessandrareflections.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/blogsome-nazi-homosexuals-an-inconvenient-reality-for-liberals/

    (a little disorganized, but the substance is there…)

    http://alessandrareflections.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/blogsome-church-and-state-nazis-and-liberals/

  18. I wouldn’t call it loosening. I would call it changing.

    I’d also say that it’s necessary. Some of the social mores of the last two centuries needed to be dropped. For example, child labor under terrible conditions and for terrible pay used to be the norm.

    The rules that work, we should keep. But you can’t do change without testing all the rules constantly.

  21. That I’m asking excuses for one group over the other? You not only are you nuts but can’t read written English.
    That should read: “That I’m making excuses for one group over the other? You not only are nuts, but can’t read written English”.
    And to add to that I will also that you’re so blinded by your hatred any defense of gay people automatically makes one an “enabler of abuse”. You’re out of your mind! And what kind of person even puts up with someone like you. I see a great deal of loneliness in your life because one, you’re a hateful asshole, and two because you’re arrogant too.

  23. LOL! A person who says “you’re dependent on the narrative provided by the minions of Satan” cannot in anyway, ever accuse someone else of not being able to think critically, moron! LOL! And my point was, Jerry Falwell, that pedophilia has no orientation and is committed by gays and straights as all evidence clearly shows. Now go back to pushing your twisted narrative as supplied by the anti-gay lobby, fuckface.

  25. Perfect example of a brainless, soul-less minion of Satan. Perhaps you should ask your probation officer if that is acceptable? That your circumstance isn’t it and you are trying to be exonerated?
    Hate and invective are the hallmarks of your mental condition, I use them against you because you rise so easily to the bait. You are a nothing, a mental midget and a boil on the backside of society.
    Soooo funny that you get your panties in a twist at the comments of a 100 year old dead white guy isn’t it?
    Perhaps there is a mental health facility nearby you can check yourself into? If not, I’m sure a 911 call will get you the proper attention (especially if you accurately describe your condition: Liberal Derangement Syndrome with pedophilia and delusions of adequacy), perhaps the gales of laughter over the phone will snap you out of your snit.

  26. You’re in denial of the facts. The women who wrote the article is also straight, you dumb fuck and as is clearly evident, pedophilia has no orientation. It’s wackjobs on the right who want to live in fantasy land who think otherwise and in order to demonize homosexuals. Alessandra is a twisted fucked up bitch and gets destroyed on every blog she wanders on to preach her hatred. If you believe anything she has to say you are also in need of serious help.

  27. And Joe, since your blind rant has been rightly deleted, let me underscore this:

    Only in your deranged mind did I say that ” pedophilia is an extension of
    homosexuality”

    Clearly you are so rabid with hate that you’re incapable of reading what I said.

  28. And of course you’re a self righteous douchebag as well. Please drop dead, fuckface and make the world a better place. And you’re not taunting me. I view you as a pathetic evangelical shithead who I will mock whenever I get the opportunity to do so. You’re nothing to me. A turd I just flushed has value to me than you.

  30. Another assclown troll. I have always said that all pedophiles need to be incarcerated. Sexual preference does not enter the picture.
    As you lack reading comprehension skills and possess a soul full of hate and twisted logic from the gay lobby, perhaps you should confine your tender sensibilities to loci where you will never read a different view, say Salon or Slate.
    In any case, you can take your nearly incomprehensible comment and tip-toe away to celebrate anal happiness and the horrors of being fisted by a fellow with a hook for a hand …

  31. That’s exactly what you’re saying you kook. You’re saying that homosexuals are pedophiles when in fact pedophilia has no orientation and effects gays and straight people alike. Now, fuck off Himmler. I love the way conservatives play the reverse discrimination game too and claim that their classical hate speech should be tolerated. Sorry, it doesn’t have to be and won’t either. You’re the one who is going to wind up alienated and on the short end of the stick as we all can see which way the trend is headed in terms of gay rights and there is no way any of you can stop that. DEAL WITH IT, HATER.

  32. Their whole sick agenda just continues to be reinforced. Unfettered sex anytime, anyhow with anything or anybody – without consequence.

    And we all know that an attack on sexual morals is a fundamental attack on the foundations of our civilization.

  34. Well, first I must say that homosexuals do not need to be demonized in that their very existence depends on the reign of Satan to deceive the unwashed into thinking that sodomy is normal.

    One only has to remember that homosexuality is a mental disorder. Queers seek to steal a normal life from heterosexuals; they force themselves on the Boy Scouts, Military and Marriage. At the end of the day all gays have is a fecal covered member; lesbians will never find the mother’s love or solve the deep hatred from males who abused them in the past; they will sip their coffee at Starbucks, and pretend to be a functioning human being.

  36. Geez, when I was 14, I thought 14 year-old girls were cute. When I was 16 I felt that way about 16 year-old girls. But I am older now and frankly girls (even 20-something) don’t really appeal to me at this phase of my life. Though some of their mothers are attractive.

    Sick people do sick things. And now they demand that we approve of the sick things they do. How did we get here so quickly? America wasn’t like this when I was a kid. What has happened? How do we fix it?

  37. “That’s exactly what you’re saying you kook. You’re saying that homosexuals are pedophiles”

    No, I’m saying that people who say “homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia” meaning that there are no homosexual pedophiles are not only liars, but enablers of every homosexual pedophile out there.

    Hence what I exactly said: “homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia” – except every time it does.

    You’re too much of a douchebag to deal with what I write.

    Second, unless you are claiming that there are no homosexual abusers, you agree with me.

    You’re too much of a loser to face the fact that I never said that all homosexuals are pedophiles. And because you’re a complete loser, you have to distort what I say to have something to rant about.

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