Proud Pervert, Pedophile, Atheist, Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophilia,” says it does not cause “lasting harm”
Posted on September
11, 2013 by shepherdguardian
Proud Atheist, Leftist, Richard Dawkins defends "mild pedophia," says it does not cause "lasting harm"
Proud Atheist, Leftist, Richard Dawkins defends "mild pedophia," says it does not cause "lasting harm"
Posted on September 11, 2013
The biologist and author described the sexual
abuse that occurred among his former classmates as “mild touching
up”
In a recent interview with the Times magazine,
Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild
pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young
child and does not believe causes “lasting harm.”
Dawkins went on to say that one of his former
school masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my
shorts,” and that to condemn this “mild touching up” as sexual
abuse today would somehow be unfair.
“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn
people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t
look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for
racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for
racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like
caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it
by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he said.
Plus, he added, though his other classmates also
experienced abuse at the hands of this teacher, “I don’t think he
did any of us lasting harm.”
Child welfare
experts responded to Dawkins’ remarks with outrage — and concern
over their effect on survivors of abuse.
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Richard Dawkins
Refuses to Condemn Mild Pedophilia
(Credit: Reuters/Andrew Winning)
In a recent interview with the Times magazine,
Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild
pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young
child and does not believe causes “lasting harm.”
Dawkins went on to say that one of his former
school masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my
shorts,” and that to condemn this “mild touching up” as sexual
abuse today would somehow be unfair.
“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn
people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t
look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for
racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for
racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things
like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to
condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he
said.
Plus, he added, though his other classmates also
experienced abuse at the hands of this teacher, “I don’t think
he did any of us lasting harm.”
Child welfare
experts responded to Dawkins’ remarks with outrage — and concern
over their effect on survivors of abuse.