We do not promote pedophiles. A huge issue is emerging today and others will cover it at their site -- Betty and Ann have weighed in on Twitter.
Scott Ritter has been convicted. After he got out of prison, he was forced to register as a sex offender.
Aaron Matte and others pimp him, push him, publicize him. They don't tell their audiences the truth: Convicted sex offender.
Now Margaret Kimberley has decided that pedophiles are to be promoted. She's made that clear by publishing his writing this week at BLACK AGENDA REPORT. I saw it, it/ It's why I didn't highlight her column this week. My plan was just to let them fade. I didn't speak about what they'd done or anything.
But Ann saw that Margaret Kimberley was promoting Pedophile Scott Ritter on her Twitter feed and left a comment and now it's a huge deal in the community.
That's fine. We're done with them. We're also now done with USEFUL IDIOTS. If Katie Halper brings Ritter on her show, we're done with her too.
I could be really mean and tell an embarrassing story about Max Blumental as a young child but despite his being Aaron's partner, I liked Max as a kid. But we're done.
Ann is a rape survivor and she does not take this lightly. I was kidnapped and molested by a man when I was a kid -- like Scott Ritter, he was repeatedly arrested.
To this day, I live with that abuse and wouldn't wish it on anyone..
This is a non-conversation here at this site. You promote a pedophile, you're choosing to endorse attacks on children. You're signing off on them.
Why did Bernie Sanders make those disgusting sex remarks in the 70s? Because that's the left. They don't take abuse of women seriously. Bernie wouldn't write that today. But I never castigated him for what he'd written because that was very common in the 70s. Today, it's apparently very common for leftists and supposed leftists to look the other way,
Again, choices are made.
Women and girls have repeatedly been victimized by the left. It's why #MeToo started. Harvey Weinstein is not a right-winger. We do get that, right?
Ellen Willis, Robin Morgan and many others from the second wave of feminism have long documented that, for a number of leftie males, girls and women just don't matter.
Scott Ritter was arrested multiple times and he was convicted and sent to prison.
The ones promoting him are stupid. People see this, they see a pedophile being promoted and it doesn't make Jimmy Dore's argument stronger or make you think Richard Medhurst is innocent of preying on those women. You see it and you know what kind of people they are. You see it and you know you don't want to be lumped in with pedophiles.
Their decisions hurt their own standing. Legacy media will not take them seriously as a result of promoting a pedophile. They look like freaks on the fringe.
That's the image that they paint for themselves when they promote Scott Ritter.
I have friends with podcasts, Kerry Washington, for example. We can note those and skip BAR and all the others. Kerry's a strong woman, she's never going to promote a pedophile. She's strong, she has self-respect.
Once upon a time, Benrie could get away with his 'rape' writing. And right now, these people think they can get away with promoting a pedophile. They can't. It's not going to work. They'll get away with it for a little bit. But their reputations will decay and they'll be tossed aside.
I've seen it happen over and over. I was so angry when Anita Hill was mistreated by our Congress but I also knew that it wasn't over. And it wasn't. The ones who got away with their garbage found out it no longer plays.
That's civilization's history. Some of these men and women may one day have kids. Then they might realize that a pedophile is not someone you promote. I hope, if that happens, the realization comes from being worried over the safety of their kids and not because their children are preyed upon -- again, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
They're sick and they're disgusting.
That will only become more obvious as the years pass.
When I spoke out against apartheid, I was trashed. They worked overtime to make me the joke of the campus. Didn't work but I didn't worry that it would. Because history was on my side. And history is on my side here.
It's a shame that in 2022, we have to take the time to note that promoting sex offenders is not a good thing. But we do because there are so many stupid people.
Equally true, considering that Scott Ritter used the internet to try to have sex with girls, there's a strong argument to be made that he should not be on social media. He used chat rooms in earlier days. Do chat rooms still exist?
I have no idea but those who promote him are responsible for what happens. He's been convicted. Though they don't tell their audience about his history, they do know it. And heaven forbid Ritter strikes again, they're responsible for it.
If he was guilty of making hate threats against a race, would they promote him?
No.
But it is acceptable to them to promote him when he is a threat to girls.
Regardless of a female's skin color, we are always expendable to the larger left.
It's been true since the dawn of time and it's why feminism was needed centuries ago and why it's still needed today.
Stepping out of the line of fire when people are rude
Cheap stuff made in China, someone calls it a sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Beat down in the market, stoned to death in the plaza
Raped on the hillside under the gun from LA to Gaza
A house made of cardboard living close to the rail
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
And I feel the witch in my veins
I feel the mother in my shoe
I feel the scream in my soul
The blood as I sing the ancient blue
They burned in the millions
I still smell the fire in my grandma's hair
The war against women rages on
Beware of the fairytale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
The noise of elections, the promise of change
A grabbing of power at the top, a day at the rifle range
Somebody's in danger, somebody's for sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
This is from 1970, Robin Morgan's "Goodbye To All That:"
So, Rat has been
liberated, for this week, at least. Next week? If the men return to
reinstate the porny photos, the sexist comic strips, the nude-chickie
covers (along with their patronizing rhetoric about being in favor of
women’s liberation)–if this happens, our alternatives are clear. Rat must be taken over permanently by women–or Rat must be destroyed.
Why Rat? Why not EVO
or even the obvious new pornzines (Mafia-distributed alongside the
human pornography of prostitution)? First, they’ll get theirs–but it
won’t be by a takeover, which is reserved for something at least worth taking over. Nor should they be censored. They should just be helped not to exist–by any means necessary. But Rat, which has always tried to be a really radical cum
lifestyle paper, that’s another matter. It’s the liberal cooptative
masks on the face of sexist hate and fear, worn by real nice guys we all
know and like, right? We have met the enemy and he’s our friend. And
dangerous. What the hell, let the chicks do an issue; maybe it’ll
satisfy ’em for a while, it’s a good controversy, and it’ll maybe sell
papers
runs an unoverheard conversation that I’m sure took place at some point last week.
And that’s what I wanted to write about–the friends,
brothers, lovers in the counterfeit male-dominated Left. The good guys
who think they know what Women’s Lib,
as they so chummily call
it, is all about–who then proceed to degrade and destroy women by almost
everything they say and do: The cover on the last issue of Rat (front and back). The token pussy power
or clit militancy
articles. The snide descriptions of women staffers on the masthead. The
little jokes, the personal ads, the smile, the snarl. No more,
brothers. No more well-meaning ignorance, no more cooptation, no more
assuming that this thing we’re all fighting for is the same; one
revolution under man, with liberty and justice for all. No more.
Let’s run it down. White males are most responsible
for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White
males (yes, yes, even with their pasty fingers back in black and brown
pies again). It could just make one a bit uneasy. It seems obvious that a
legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women–with
men relating to that the best they can. A genuine Left doesn’t consider
anyone’s suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a
microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and
status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom (and
functioning as objectified prizes or coin
as well). Goodbye to all that.
Goodbye to the male-dominated peace movement, where sweet old Uncle Dave can say with impunity to a woman on the staff of Liberation magazine, The trouble with you is you’re an aggressive woman.
Goodbye to the straight
male-dominated Left: to PL,
who will allow that some workers are women, but won’t see all women
(say, housewives) as workers (blind as the System itself); to all the
old Left-over parties who offer their Women’s Liberation caucuses
to us as if that were not a contradiction in terms; to the individual
anti-leadership leaders who hand-pick certain women to be leaders and
then relate only to them, either in the male Left or in Women’s Liberation—bringing their hang-ups about power dominance and manipulation to everything they touch.
Read it in full, grasp how much has changed and how little has changed.
We're a feminist community, we don't promote pedophiles and we don't normalize them. If that means we don't break bread with some people anymore, their loss not ours.
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