The mistake means that Wolf claims in her book that British courts in the nineteenth century were aggressive in sentencing homosexuals to death - in fact, what is shown is that the courts generally did not do this in cases where what had happened was consensual. And many cases that did reach the courts were not cases of consenting adults interacting with each other - but of crimes involving children. Her prime example, turns out to be a 14 year old boy who she claims was executed for homosexual behaviour - in actual fact, he served two and a half years for molesting a six year old. If anything the sentence would seem remarkably light.
I'm not going to attack her over it.
The same chick who tried to counsel Al Gore on how to be an Alpha Male....
apparently her PhD thesis was based on this as well
I thought big time book publishers had editors for this sort of thing. Maybe if you are already a known author or Left Wing celebrity like Ms Wolf (former advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore), no one questions what you chose to publish.
It’s Naomi Wolf...Al Gore’s muse... what do you expect
Sounds like Matthew Sweet needs to be sent to a reeducation camp. I’m pretty sure calling out a leftist loon over Her Majesty’s airwaves is a crime...
She should have stuck with promoting earth tones.
Well he caught her although I must say no one would read “death recorded” and interpret that to mean he wasn’t executed. It’s poorly worded. However if you’re going to write a book like that you must do your homework and Wolf failed.
Too bad we don’t have these types of interviews to expose liberal lies and ignorance.
With Alan Turing, it wasn’t execution, just chemical castration. He killed himself.
That’s what happens when you are looking for proof that fits your agenda rather than TRUTH.
Idiots shouldn’t write books.
Liberals do not lie. They just “call attention to” issues. Their statements are not fairly judged by the criterion of truth. It is a badge of honor to liberals to sacrifice everything, including truth, to express their sacred leftism.
19 century British legal term “death recorded”
Wiki:
In British courts, beginning in 1823, a sentence of death recorded meant that the judge was abstaining from issuing a capital punishment sentence in cases where the judge foresaw that a royal pardon would be forthcoming if a proper death sentence were issued. Royal pardons for capital punishment had become routine at the time for most common crimes. A death recorded sentence allowed the judge to meet common law sentencing precedent while avoiding mocking by the sentenced or the public who realised an actual death penalty sentence was likely to be overridden.
Because the term means the opposite of a death sentence, it has caused confusion among some 21st century authors.
Funny just went to amazon to look at the reviews. Reviews are not permitted. interesting
Nevertheless, every word of this tripe will be forever treated as absolute, fell from the sky on golden tablets truth.
Progs weave propaganda from nothing and then hang it on the wall alongside all their other lies.
EX: Matthew Shepherd was murdered by two rednecks when they discovered he was homosexual.
It’s just too good a story to fact check and so it becomes burned into the mythology forever.
Truth, History, and accuracy are of no account when you have a liberal point to make.
Wolfe’s book will still be used by the gay Nazi crowd to lie about Western values.
If it weren’t for lies, liberals would have nothing to say.