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In the 1970s, the British Labour Party's bourgeois liberal wing, which would become Labour's dominant bloc under Tony Blair, found itself in league with the "Paedophile Information Exchange". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523526/How-Labour-Deputy-Harriet-Harman-shadow-minister-husband-Health-Secretary-Patricia-Hewitt-linked-group-lobbying-right-sex-children.html
There is a not insignificant portion of small l liberalism that sees age of consent laws as some legacy of Judeo-Christian censorship. In 2009, Anne Applebaum wrote a bonkers piece protesting Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/the_outrageous_arrest_of_roman.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/the_outrageous_arrest_of_roman.html
The fact that a Tulsi Gabbard's instincts are so much sounder than the original axis of evil's own David Frum is very on-brand for 2020 https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1304783675767152640
The thread here by Elizabeth Bruenig, no conservative her, should remind everyone remotely sensible that on some pretty fundamental moral matters, there is a consensus that transcends politics, even if the politicos spinning this are simply diabolical
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1304451502472298498
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1304451502472298498
California is the flagship of the liberal project: its object is the relentless obscuring of differences between right and wrong until what were always obvious moral evils are legislated for & then made 'norms'. It is happening in plain sight now. https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1304619709682384896
Tulsi Gabbard & Nancy Pelosi’s daughter have a firmer grasp of basic moral truths than David Frum, who was George W Bush’s speechwriter....an example of how absolutely deranged the American Right’s ‘dead enders’ are now.
The @TheBabylonBee outperforms here: "Hollywood Elites Rush To Normalize Pedophilia Before They're All Outed By Ghislaine Maxwell" https://babylonbee.com/news/hollywood-rushes-to-make-pedophilia-acceptable-before-theyre-outed-by-ghislaine-maxwell
