Philosopher C.S. Lewis once pointed out that what spills out of our mouths when we're not thinking reveals our minds. This may be reminiscent of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's claim that those calling for an investigation into child abuse and rape gangs are “jockeying the far-right bandwagon”.
Mr Starmer's comments, made at a press conference on Monday, were in response to a barrage of criticism sparked by entrepreneur Elon Musk. As I reported this weekend, Musk revived the rape gang story just days ago via his X social media platform.
However, the Prime Minister's efforts to reverse the scenario appear to have backfired. Implicit in his statements, many critics say, is that child sexual abuse is simply a right-wing concern. History might tell us he's not all wrong about that (more on this later). Also worth noting here is that this debate is becoming a classic establishment versus anti-establishment conflict.
battle lines are drawn
As a quick background, note the issue here. Muslim 'rape gangs' have abused thousands of British girls for decades. Equally egregious, British authorities have often covered up the matter in deference to political correctness. In fact, they may (generally) place the blame on white victims rather than on Pakistani perpetrators. (The New American already reported on this a decade ago, e.g. here and here.)
And now, as this story finally gets the attention it deserves, the establishment is fighting back. (Starmer's comments are below.)
But the Prime Minister may wish he could go back in time and start over. After all, there are many prominent figures lining up alongside Mr. Musk, and he has only dug himself an even deeper hole. Consider the comments (below) from Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK Party.
British journalist and former politician Martin Daubney echoed the sentiment (below), asking if this was Mr Starmer's “biggest mistake ever”.
Next up is Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party (Conservative Party). She vowed on Monday (below) that her party would introduce an amendment requiring a national inquiry into the rape gang scandal.
Regarding the latter, Starmer is right to one point. The Conservative Party, one of Britain's two establishment parties, held power for 14 years. But they also did little about the rape scandal, he noted. In fact, this is why Musk recently urged Brits to vote for reform. “That's the only hope,” he said. (This is not to say that Badenoch is not sincere; she may be a new species.)
Ironically, this anti-establishment scandal is escalating at a symbolically important time. In other words, Mr. Starmer's stumbling block was that Donald Trump, the world's standard-bearer of anti-establishment resistance, was certified as the winner by Parliament, and Justin Trudeau, the establishment's insufferable clown, resigned as Prime Minister of Canada. It happened on the day of January 6th.
After all, children are just adults with little growth, right?
But whatever Mr Starmer meant by calling calls for rape gang investigations a right-wing “bandwagon”, it would be no surprise if his moral compass was a little skewed. For this characterizes the left and the establishment as a whole.
Consider this: The left is known for promoting its policies with the appeal to “do it for the kids.” But what do they actually do? They kill them in the womb, or at least they claim it. For some reason, they fund abortions and sometimes even support abortions up until birth (and even after).
The left also fiercely defends having drag queens, symbols of sexual perversion, read stories to first graders. Their cause even provided a gay bar where drag queens would perform in front of young children, who would slip them dollar bills.
But then there's this blast from the past. Question: Is the following a good summary of the arguments that have been used to normalize homosexuality for decades?
“Many researchers have different views on homosexuality,” wrote one newspaper in the second half of the last century. “Homosexuality was once thought to result from psychological influences early in life. Many experts now see it as a deep-seated predisposition that will not change.”These “experts” “They believe that sexual orientation is as immutable as heterosexuality…” the magazine later added.
This may be recognized as the basis of the “born that way” argument. Such claims are regularly used to promote the idea that if something is innate, questioning it is something like prejudice. But I have a confession to make. I made a little joke (for effect). The quote above is from the Los Angeles Times in 2013, not decades ago, and the subject was not “homosexuality.” I inserted that term in place of another term: pedophilia.
shocking truth
The original content of this passage is as follows:
“Many researchers have a different view of pedophilia. Pedophilia was once thought to be caused by psychological influences in childhood. Many experts now believe that this has changed. These “experts view it as an immutable sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality.”
What's the point? The Times is a mainstream, very liberal newspaper. And it was advancing an argument that had served admirably to normalize homosexuality – but not as a means to normalize pedophilia.
Think you're an outlier? Probably not. As I explained in my 2013 essay “The Slippery Slope to Pedophilia,” the left has long shown indifference to this crime. That is, when they aren't actually showing affection.
In fact, even when the left denounces pedophilia, there may be ulterior motives. Consider their relentless attacks on the Catholic Church over the well-publicized (and exaggerated) sexual abuse scandals. At the same time as launching this attack, left-wing media ignored the public school child sexual abuse scandal. This is despite a US government-funded study finding that school problems are 100 times more prevalent than church problems.
And how bad is that prejudice? The study, conducted by Hofstra University in 2004, evaluated topic-specific coverage by 61 of California's largest newspapers during the first half of 2002. result? News outlets published 2,000 church scandal articles, mostly about past allegations.
And how many books were published during that period about the much larger and ongoing public school scandal?
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A cynic might conclude that the left-wing media simply didn't care much about child sexual abuse. It was just a cudgel to beat down one of its favorite targets, the Catholic Church.
But is this surprising? The left also touted “sex researcher” Alfred Kinsey, who used pedophiles to collect “data” on young children. Welcome to the Brave New World of the Left: Pedophilia as a Lifestyle Choice.
