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."
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.
I don’t support Austin Peterson but he got in a sick burn about this.
Ugh.
I don’t think this a Todd Akin cutting his own *ohnson off moment (and I think we’re passed having nonsense like that matter that much to people) but this kind of comment is not helpful.
He didn’t say it caused it - said it made it worse. Difficult to argue how that isn’t true - portraying people - particularly women - as merely objects to be used certainly devalues humanity and encourages untoward behavior when people are conditioned to exploit each other for selfish purposes. He’s spot on accurate.
I will agree he needs to be a bit more careful in how he chooses to express such views as the media can create something that isn’t there. The headline doesn’t match his words. In addition I’m seeing where it is being reported the expansion of “women’s liberation” and “sexual liberation” were what he was saying lead to human trafficking which is total bunk - said nothing even remotely similar to that.