{"id":10426,"date":"2018-05-23T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:37:31","slug":"the-bottom-of-the-deviant-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-bottom-of-the-deviant-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bottom of the Deviant Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The American Spectator<\/strong>
\nby Peter Roff
\n5\/10\/2018<\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sooner or later the unthinkable becomes acceptable and staunchly defended.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

You must hand it to the people who are bent on upending societal norms. They\u2019re clever, very clever to the point they can turn black to white and up to down while the rest of us stand on the sidelines wondering what happened and how we got there.<\/em><\/p>\n

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the most powerful intellects to ever serve in the world\u2019s greatest deliberative body, famously described the phenomenon as \u201cdefining deviancy down\u201d \u2014 the idea that each generation is more tolerant than the one that preceded it of behaviors considered outside the norm. So far we haven\u2019t hit bottom \u2014 and possibly never will \u2014 but we\u2019re running out of things to normalize.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some standards still exist, thank goodness, which is why New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned late Monday after it was alleged he\u2019d been physically abusive to women with whom he\u2019d been involved and called one of them, a Sri Lankan, his \u201cbrown slave\u201d while demanding she call him \u201cmaster.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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What brings this to mind is an essay published<\/a> in the New York Times in October 2014 that, for one reason or another, is suddenly making the rounds on social media. In it Margo Kaplan, at the time an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Law, argues for treating pedophilia as a disease rather than a crime.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBy some estimates,\u201d she wrote, \u201c1 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. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sophisticated construct. Take something we find abhorrent like sex between adults and children, argue without providing real evidence the impulse leading to such conduct is more prevalent than we realize, and tack on for good measure it is our Neanderthal-like attitudes toward said impulse that produces an effect opposite of what society intends. Say it often enough and pretty soon you\u2019re beginning to win the argument: People who commit crimes should be punished, people with a disease should not. They deserve our compassion and understanding because they are really not responsible for what they do.<\/em><\/p>\n

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