Sex trafficking goes back way before the 1960s.
Blaming the Sixties isn't an easy vote-getter like it was in past decades. That's been true for a while now.
Posted on 01/31/2018 3:48:30 PM PST by DoodleDawg
During a speech to pastors in Kansas City in December, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley linked the problem of sex trafficking to the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Hawley, the top Republican prospect to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, launched a new unit in the attorney general’s office focused on fighting human trafficking a few months into his first year in office.
During a speech at a “Pastors and Pews” event hosted by the Missouri Renewal Project, Hawley tied the issue to the sexual revolution, the cultural shift in the 1960s and 1970s...
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100% correct.
Here are all of his comments that the article transcribed from the audio. Tell me what's so bad about these, let alone what's *wrong* with any of them? ---
"We have a human trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities. There is a market for it. Why is there? Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined, never have imagined,...."
"We must ... deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of ‘anything goes’ ends in this road of slavery. It ends in the slavery and the exploitation of the most vulnerable among us. It ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women."
The sigher probably leans another way.
Wait until the Bush League Republicans begin beating him up.
Knee capping opponents of open borders and amnesty is their specialty.
Sex trafficking goes back way before the 1960s.
Blaming the Sixties isn't an easy vote-getter like it was in past decades. That's been true for a while now.
Pure crap. Sex trafficking long predates the 1960's and is a world-wide problem. Blaming it on the 60's is idiotic.
Oh yeah? This is just the first.
Here are all of his comments that the article transcribed from the audio. Tell me what's so bad about these, let alone what's *wrong* with any of them? ---
Because sex trafficking is a world wide problem that long predates the 1960's. What caused it before then?
No, the sigher is tired of Claire McCaskill and is tired of the Missouri GOP running idiots.
I don’t think so.
The trafficking in the US has never been greater.
Yes, but so did adultery. So did premarital sex. So did divorce. So did single-parent families. So did out-of-wedlock births. So did STD's. So did late-term abortions. So did "swinging". So did "inter-generational sex" aka statutory rape. So did "Man-Boy Love".
But that's not the point. Nobody is claiming that all of these and more "were first invented in the 1960s". Straw dog.
The point is that the Glorious Sexual Revolution spearheaded by the "leaders" of my g-g-g-generation (ie the ones with the microphones in front of their faces), caused a VERY noticeable increase - in many cases an off-the-charts increase - in all of these.
Yep. That's correct.
Agreed. Telling the Truth does not always get you the most votes.
This is the conundrum facing all politicians, even the tiny few who care about outmoded concepts like "integrity" or "sticking to your guns".
See my reply to "x" in post 11.
I really, *respectfully*, want to know a bit of context from each of you - if you agree to provide it - in terms of this one question:
Which of you are old enough to have strong memories of the 60s, in terms of what the culture was like both before and after the mid-to-late 60s cultural explosion?
Because for those of you who do have memories, I could hopefully have a meaningful discussion with you that doesn't require a major investment of time, by reminding you of a few things you may have forgotten over the decades.
But if you don't, then the only way to have a meaningful discussion with you about this era would require me writing a book-length tutorial for you as background to first read, having no idea whether you'd actually do so. In other words, invest 100s of hours in what might be a complete waste of time. And no, I am certainly not going down that path.
I'm hoping that at least some of you do remember both the Before & After. Thank you in advance.
You are right on point, and that was Josh’s point.
Talking about the 1960s worked for conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s, but when you started to have many voters who weren't born until after the Sixties, such talk lost its appeal with voters. Even voters who do remember the Fifties and Sixties weren't energized.
Plus, the population has changed. People's experiences and expectations are different. They can't fit into the pattern of the 1940s or 1950s because they grew up with more and wanted more.
Things change. It's hard to find people around now touting the pure 1960s message of sexual liberation. People are more suspicious of such claims. To that extent the 60s are long over.
But that doesn't mean you can shoehorn people back into earlier patterns of thought. For better or worse, people are watching Game of Thrones, not Gunsmoke, and their lives are shaped by what they watch.
If you want to make sex trafficking an issue, deal with what it is and what it specifically involves and why and how it's going on. Don't roll out yesterday's campaign talk and try to fit it into themes that don't resonate today.
“Pornography and sex trafficking go hand in hand and both are at all time highs.”
Yep.
But that's a straw dog that the title of this article suggests, that is not supported by the actual transcript they quote, which comes from a poor, distantly-recorded audio recording of a meeting Mr. Hawley attended with a number of conservative pastors (and, obviously, a mole, looking for anything that can be twisted out of context).
The word "60s" / sixties doesn't appear in the transcript. He mentioned "sexual revolution" but not "sixties," and the S. R. is far, far more than the culturally toxic fumes we first started getting dumped on us in the late 60s. Here's the transcript once again:
"We have a human trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities. There is a market for it. Why is there? Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined, never have imagined,...." "We must ... deliver a message to our culture that the false gospel of ‘anything goes’ ends in this road of slavery. It ends in the slavery and the exploitation of the most vulnerable among us. It ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women."
The Sexual Revolution only began in the 60s, but has been gaining steam ever since, and is a veritable juggernaut today. There is NO comparision between the state of the culture today, versus, say, 3 years or 5 years or 10 years after the S. R started.
Moreover, he also blamed sexual trafficking on the "anything goes" mentality we have today, and on a "culture [that] has completely lost its way". I can see such remarks might be considered "controversial" by lefties. But by conservatives?!
Regardless of whether you remember the 60s, please tell me you at least have witnessed over your lifetime a steady slide into a cultural cesspool, even if you didn't witness the start of that descent?
Given the context of the venue in which he spoke, he wasn't "running on a platform of 60's bashing". By no stretch of the imagination.
Of course, the Left and the gopE and RINOs will naturally try to spin this as such.
I certainly hope the average Freeper - especially those from my Dad's home state (he's 95 this year, and still talks about being born in "the German ghetto" in St Louie) - don't buy into this lie and further perpetuate it.
There is absolutely nothing in Hawley's words that should cause a single Freeper to do a facepalm. Nothing.
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