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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's World"
Epstein was a criminal. Whether any of the men named in these files are too is not something we can know: no charges or prosecutions have been brought. But its not just Epstein. Thats what we now have to realise. Obsessive, pervasive sexual interest in teenage girls - and to some degree, boys - is threaded insistently through our culture.
We just choose to ignore it. We redact it. Its a darkness that we cover with more darkness.
Are we going to reckon with that? Can we?
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,261 posts)They've always gotten pretty much whatever they wanted, legal or not. Laws are for the lowborn. Take a look at prisons, for example. About 92% of medium to maximum security prisons are people of color. 99% are poor. The myth of "democracy" is that everyone is equal and everyone has rights. No one is equal in our society, unless you say something Orwellian like "some people are more equal than others." Same holds true for any rights you think you have. Their guarantee is via pieces of paper, mostly written 250 years ago for a different world, and a bunch of folks in black robes. The former is subject to wide interpretation, the latter are increasingly Federalist Society lackeys appointed with bipartisan support.
It's important to remember that it's taken lots of time and too many lives to get to this rather miserable point. What's worse, it appears that this is as far as most of our elected politicians are willing to go.
Kid Berwyn
(23,641 posts)That used to the US Government, so the Broligarchs bought the US Government.
CanonRay
(16,026 posts)ananda
(34,598 posts)Misogyny, pedophilia, and child abuse are
this indicators of a very sick, dysfunctional
society... and this country has been this way
ever since it was founded.
johnnyfins
(3,570 posts)20th century for a start. It makes me wonder how much was covered up that we DON'T know about.
