This is a weird week. As you are certainly well aware from Tuesday, the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz published an article exposing the woman behind the Libs of Tik Tok account, who “boasts that several teachers have been fired as a result of being featured on the account.” Like this assistant professor who went on TikTok to talk about MAPs — minor-attracted persons. There have been pieces in Salon, Slate, USA Today, the New York Times, and the BBC about how not all MAPs are pedophiles; being attracted to children is just another sexual orientation you’re born with, but if you don’t act out on it, you’re not a pedophile.
This is an example of an educator who lost their job after I posted their own video. A professor who wants to destigmatize pedophelia. This is who the left is defending. https://t.co/3UXezrGwvp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 20, 2022
As far as we know, this professor from SUNY Fredonia still has his gig:
🚨🚨🚨 Professor says an adult wanting to have sex with a kid is accepted as being wrong but “it’s not obvious to me that it is in fact wrong” pic.twitter.com/ygC5nuHDNa
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022
As we’ve said, it’s been a weird week. Anti-critical race theory Christopher Rufo isn’t a fan of child sex predators either, but boy did he get ratio’d for this tweet Wednesday:
The public school system has a child sex abuse problem. Here are your Predators of the Week: pic.twitter.com/OhTESEdACd
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 20, 2022
What’s weird is that people are less upset about these teachers being arrested for inappropriate sexual behavior with students than they are with Rufo for only posting public school teachers. What about priests? What about Catholic schools?
We saved this exchange Rufo had with Andrew Sullivan about a week ago because we thought it might come up:
In 2019, the Iowa Dept. of Education released a guidebook on identifying "grooming" in public schools. Warning signs include "talking about student sexuality" and "inappropriate and personal conversations with students." This is what parents want to stop.https://t.co/7GNSJ8NIwL pic.twitter.com/ePCLtR7GuY
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 12, 2022
Rufo now fomenting a full-on moral panic in which all public school teachers are pedophiles unless proven innocent. But hey it works!
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) April 12, 2022
Sullivan’s usually a lot more reasonable than that. But again, notice the outrage is at Rufo for pointing it out.
The Department of Education estimated that up to 3 million kids suffer physical sexual abuse at the hands of public school teachers. You wrote forcefully against abuse in the Catholic Church, why give public schools—where the scale of the problem is 100x—a pass? https://t.co/xGtkNIvmT6
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 12, 2022
I have never said that "all public school teachers are pedophiles unless proven innocent"—a ridiculous charge. I *have* said that, according to the best available evidence, there is a major sexual abuse problem in the public schools.
Here are the facts:https://t.co/xXQU9W8JQ3
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 12, 2022
My position is that we should aggressively prevent, identify, and prosecute sexual abuse in every institution that assumes the care of children: churches, schools, etc. Public schools have legal authority over 50 million children and should not be exempt from scrutiny.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 12, 2022
I took on child abuse sincerely – in the wake of countless new stories. I wasn’t cynically digging up old stories to smear all priests or advance a political campaign for other purposes. I did not conflate teaching kids Catholicism with “grooming” them.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) April 12, 2022
So, whose side are you taking in this one? Rufo, for pointing out the problem? Or Sullivan, for pointing out that Rufo’s just trying to advance a political campaign?
As we said above, Rufo’s getting ratio’d for pointing out the problem in public schools. The outrage is directed at him of all people:
And that's why they should go to a catholic school, where that definitely doesn't happen
— Call Me Erd Angle 🌳 (@thepostergeist) April 20, 2022
Scary stuff. I'm enrolling my kids in a nice Catholic school so I'll never have to worry about this.
— REAL Joe Thrashnkill Comedy (Comedian) Very Funny (@JoeThrashnkill) April 20, 2022
Now do Christian schools.
— fluff (@wmassfluff) April 20, 2022
Now do the Catholic private schools.
— Grace (@PinballToCrease) April 20, 2022
But not private schools or religious organizations right?
— Spaulding (@PattersonToast) April 20, 2022
I wonder what abuse in private schools look like.
— Zeke (@z3k3t) April 20, 2022
Wait till I tell you what happens at Catholic schools.
— The Complete Works of Piggly Wiggly (@wittytim) April 20, 2022
Now do the Republican Party.
— AbuRui (@TheNotSoBrave) April 20, 2022
Man wait until you get to the Catholic Church.
Well, that’s if you actually care about sex abuse.
— Anita (@AnitaM86) April 20, 2022
Man your grift is so fucking obvious. You won't be spared by the revolution.
— Lucas (Har-Par are bad landlords) R 🇦🇶 (@LReichennek) April 20, 2022
Good to see so much concern for the kids. And adopting a curriculum where kindergarten teachers are supposed to teach about sexual orientation and gender identity will fix this problem for sure.
Libs of Tik Tok has done us all a favor.
Related:
And? Libs of Tik Tok ‘boasts that several teachers have been fired as a result of being featured on the account’ https://t.co/6ZpvTGnjsH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 19, 2022
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