Scholar's Pedophilia Essay Stirs Outrage and Revenge

New York Times ^ | 4/30/02 | JODI WILGOREN

[Khepera]

It used to be acceptable to shoot these folks in the head as well. Maybe that means it's OK we go back to that! Do we get to do that? If we get to do that then, I say its OK for them to exist so that we have targets.

[dennisw]

This sicko was on O'Reilly last night and was batted about. It did not change Mirkin's smug views one bit. A good horse whipping would though.

This scumbag "prof" undoubtedly has tenure.

[conserve-it]

"Do you think that you could find 20 parents who would do it? I doubt it. It would be too easy to portray them as "intoleranthomophobic bigots"."

Yes I think it is possible. If you don't publically embarass these A holes, they win. Who cares what they call us?

[Billthedrill]

One wonders how Dr. Mirkin, whose academic specialty is political science, can pontificate on issues so far removed from his field. He is clearly not a psychologist, medical doctor, specialist in child development, etc, etc; in short, once again we have the academic assumption of the primacy of politics over truth. This is killing the American academy - this isn't academic freedom, but its opposite.

[parsifal]

Been meaning to finish reading that book. Loved Love In The Ruins. parsy.

[EdReform]

Bump

[montag813]

But he questioned whether some people accusing priests these days were making up stories in search of a payday, and he said he believed that much of what was called molestation was really harmless touching.

I have wondered about this too. It seems that the bulk of the sudden onslaught of Church accusers are people who claim to have been abused decades ago by priests that are now dead. It is clear that many of these people see an easy payoff by a paranoid Church, and as with most evil legal maneuvers, the hand of trial lawyers is at play here.