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We Hate Pedophiles! (Unless They’re Famous, Or They Abuse Girls)
North Star Writers Group ^ | June 23, 2008 | Stephen Silver

Posted on 06/23/2008 7:46:20 AM PDT by Invisigoth

Americans hate child molesters. Right?

We mock them when they’re ensnared by Chris Hanson on To Catch a Predator. We watch Bill O’Reilly and Nancy Grace scream with outrage when they’re let out of jail and we howl with (understandable) anger about pedophile priests. In a culture in which just about any crime, short of murder, can be forgiven if enough time passes, child molestation appears to be one of the few crimes that most people just plain can’t let slide.

So why is R. Kelly still a huge star? And why do so many in America clamor for the return of Roman Polanski?

Two events in recent weeks – HBO’s airing of a documentary about Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski and the acquittal of R&B superstar R. Kelly on child pornography charges – have gotten me thinking about something I first noticed a few years ago. A double standard, or rather two of them.

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1 posted on 06/23/2008 7:46:20 AM PDT by Invisigoth
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To: Invisigoth

Silver just now noticed this???? R. Kelly’s behavior was caught on tape, and is absolutely revolting. He walked. Al Sharpton barely peeped, if he said anything.

Jesse Jackson was clammed up.

B. Hussein Obama was tighter than a drum on the subject.

The LameStream Media only mentioned it in passing.

Fairness. Balance. Objectivity.

riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.


2 posted on 06/23/2008 7:50:19 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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To: Invisigoth

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3 posted on 06/23/2008 7:51:30 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Invisigoth

Who is R. Kelly?


4 posted on 06/23/2008 8:12:16 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: Invisigoth

Take a good look at the people who listen to that R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap garbage. They’re not the kind of people who disapprove of sexual deviancy.


5 posted on 06/23/2008 8:14:56 AM PDT by Neoncon (I am disrespectful to Socialism! Can you see I am serious?)
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To: Invisigoth
Yep, perverts like R. Kelly and Michael Jackson get the pass even if caught on tape. Creeps who solicit an undercover agent on the Internet are tread more harshly than celebs with actually commit the acts. This kind of double standard damages the judicial system.
6 posted on 06/23/2008 8:15:23 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: Invisigoth
While watching the Lakers get annihilated, IIRC, they played Gary the perv Glitter at the forum...they must be the only team in existence that didn't get the message.
7 posted on 06/23/2008 8:17:53 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: Invisigoth

This guy is scum, but young teenage girls are not children, these acts do not make him a pedophile (at least the ones I know about, 14 year olds...).


8 posted on 06/23/2008 8:25:13 AM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: Invisigoth

I think a good deal of it has to do with puberty. If you’re attracted to prepubescent kids, pretty much everyone agrees that you’re a sick pervert and probably should be locked away. If on the other hand you are attracted to teenage girls, well, people understand that. They don’t condone it or like it, but I doubt there many men who haven’t found themselves looking at what they thought was an attractive adult woman only to find out that she was underage. Now the vast majority of us can control our sexual impulses at least well enough to avoid coming on to 15 year olds, but we can understand where those impulses come from.


10 posted on 06/23/2008 8:32:18 AM PDT by elmer fudd (Fukoku kyohei)
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Regardless of whether the attraction is understandable or not, in the Polanski case, the evidence points to what he did as being against the will of the victim, meaning that it was not only statutory rape but the conventional sort of rape, as well. Should that get a pass, too?
11 posted on 06/23/2008 8:40:33 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
Polanski made sure the girl was loaded up with "ludes" before raping her too. If the pervert ever steps foot on U.S. territory he should be jailed immediately, he has already been tried, convicted and sentenced.
12 posted on 06/23/2008 8:44:51 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Only 7 more shopping days until Graybeard58's b/day.)
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To: knarf

You opened my eyes to this.


13 posted on 06/23/2008 8:50:55 AM PDT by DeLaine (Anything that offends 3 people must be banned. The 200 million just have to suck it up.)
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To: Invisigoth

What about the muslim rapper, Akon?


14 posted on 06/23/2008 9:16:51 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: processing please hold
What about him? You mean his dancing with this 14 year old (who was in an over-18 club)? I think what he was doing was pretty disgusting but she wasn't 'no little girl'. http://youtube.com/watch?v=y-Zi8qB8rRA http://youtube.com/watch?v=BU8JuWMgky4&feature=related
15 posted on 06/23/2008 9:21:21 AM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: Jane Austen

16 YO Jamie Spears just gave birth to a baby. The father is over 18, but no word of any legal action.


16 posted on 06/23/2008 9:21:24 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: ktscarlett66

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y-Zi8qB8rRA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BU8JuWMgky4&feature=related

(see if that’s better)


17 posted on 06/23/2008 9:22:30 AM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: jaydubya2

Everyone on that block and surrounding neighborhood should have their kids ripped from them if that is the case! The horror!


18 posted on 06/23/2008 9:24:38 AM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom and individual liberty is for everyone, including the odd and weird people like you.)
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To: ktscarlett66
Have you heard and seen his video apologizing for the incident?

She was underage. The clubs fault I agree for allowing an underage girl in.

Just a fwiw, he's an anchor muslim.

19 posted on 06/23/2008 9:25:28 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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20 posted on 06/23/2008 9:25:28 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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