Jul 10, 2023Liked by Adam B. Coleman, Haley Kennington
Thank you for posting. This is why I strongly opposed to the Mapplethorpe exhibit in Cleveland, Ohio. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/28/pornography-art-cincinnati-decided-robert-mapplethorpe-trial-25-year/70591342/ That pornography - including children's pornography - was being exhibited at taxpayer's dime is what disturbed me. If someone wants to show it in their private gallery - sans the kids - go for it. But if you involve public money, public morality gets a say. It is why I am against access to pornography in libraries. Go for it on your own - just don't expect my taxpayers to feed your addiction. Going after kids is the final step of the long march through the institutions advocated a century ago after the Marxist revolutions failed to materialize in industrialized countries. It is to overthrow established culture. It's Neo-Marxism with Critical Theory (the grandfather of CRT) that advocates taking one view and inverting it with the belief that the truth will emerge. So applying here, you had innocent books for children like The Little Red Engine or The Three Pigs and invert it to perversion and the truth will emerge as the best books for children. You can see the nonsense with the logic. It is like, love your children, hate your children and the real truth will emerge.
Very few things should be at public expense. Let the great unwinding begin. Sadly, it’s this kind of grifting distraction that steals away our attention into other rooms of the mind, entirely.
I flirted with Libertarianism pre-Covid. I always worried about the safety net. Now that I see the formula used for the military-industrial complex (problem, fear, propaganda, and PR that it is only good citizenry to follow) has been used for the homeless industrial complex, covid and every other power grab, I now am full onboard with Ron Paul.
The fight for truth, the fight for an equal voice, will always be an uphill battle against the indoctrination funded in our public schools. When a group refuses another’s right to challenge a thought, how can there ever be compromise or discussion?
Excellent article. Thank you for your time & effort in consolidating all this into such a graphic and informative post. Unfortunately, as Aldous Huxley feared in his 1931 book 'Brave New World', without that 'feature rich' formatting, many just do not have the desire nor attention span to read just words, and in this case, people need to SEE what's in these books to truly believe it.
This article may be confusing, but looking at the title (and the subtitle), it’s about private funding of institutions to fight legal battles regarding public issues. It’s not about pornography, sexual deviance, or anything equivalent; (these are just “helper” topics that created the incentive for funding of the specific case). Now, readers want to fight about these helper topics here, now, rather than discuss the actual, larger topic of the article. Be warned.
“Gayness” (as well as any of many other sorts of “perversions”) is omni-present in the wilds of humanity. To some of us self-styled “normal parents”, it may feel exceedingly rare, contra-normal, and in the interests of the “other” people who are not like us (them, etc).
To see privately funded groups (like “Citizens United”) is an affront to some - perhaps even a greater majority - of some group.
Nonetheless, the idea (eg that a white woman could have sex with a non-white man - perhaps even marry) was once quite perverse, illogical, unnatural, ... until some private groups supported public challenges to such predilections of differently minded.
While I don’t want my 11 year old girl accidentally reading such material, seeing such pictures, I’d rather society not be legally restricted from its exposure. These are interesting times but I think I know which way we go as Americans. These “illocit” behaviors are NORMAL but sadly, are prone to grifting. Such is capitalism. These are the incentives in play. These are our values.
Always remember what happens when that old shoe gets put on the other foot.
"The idea...was once quite perverse....until...public challenges to such predilections of differently minded." You seem to be implying that one day making porn accessible to children will no longer be considered unnatural. YOU, as an adult, are not legally restricted from exposure to any of these materials.
Sex - even “perverse” sex - is normal. Whether it’s shown to children is an entirely different topic. I only want to point out that condemning a private funding to libraries to fight legal grifting is as normal as funding things like citizens United. Everyone wants to believe that they are “normal” and their views are “truth”. Good luck. Remember that thing I said about the other shoe.
Your first sentence is a distraction as I never said anything about adults engaged in sex, including fetishes, being abnormal. The "other shoe" argument stops dead in it's tracks when it comes to protecting children from the sexual proclivities and manipulations of adults.
Clearly, you really want to talk about children being “exposed” to other peoples habits that are within range of normal behaviour that people don’t normally discuss in public.
Not everyone agrees on the definition of "normal" sexual behavior, and it's not up to anyone but parents to decide what and when to teach their children about sex (and religion). Pedophilia is a sexual behavior that most "normal" people don't want their children exposed to, yet one of the graphic books the pedos want badly to market to kids includes an illustration of a bearded adult male gripping the erect penis of a teen boy. The entire book, as many of these freak books do, revolve around genitalia and thinking incessantly about genitalia and ways to stimulate genitalia. And all this time I thought we were supposed to be spending taxpayer $ to teach reading, writing and math. The adults who push to ram these books on children should be called the Glorious Genitalia.
You’re right. Nobody gets to be in charge of defining “normal”. As with everything, “teach your children well”. Don’t help them believe everything they see, read, or hear. But one day, they’re going to see, read, and hear it. That’s for sure.
For me, this is a 10 minute discussion with our daughter about things other people tend to do that her mother and myself don’t do ourselves - not unlike our converation about the so called “heaven and hell”
Thank you for posting. This is why I strongly opposed to the Mapplethorpe exhibit in Cleveland, Ohio. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/28/pornography-art-cincinnati-decided-robert-mapplethorpe-trial-25-year/70591342/ That pornography - including children's pornography - was being exhibited at taxpayer's dime is what disturbed me. If someone wants to show it in their private gallery - sans the kids - go for it. But if you involve public money, public morality gets a say. It is why I am against access to pornography in libraries. Go for it on your own - just don't expect my taxpayers to feed your addiction. Going after kids is the final step of the long march through the institutions advocated a century ago after the Marxist revolutions failed to materialize in industrialized countries. It is to overthrow established culture. It's Neo-Marxism with Critical Theory (the grandfather of CRT) that advocates taking one view and inverting it with the belief that the truth will emerge. So applying here, you had innocent books for children like The Little Red Engine or The Three Pigs and invert it to perversion and the truth will emerge as the best books for children. You can see the nonsense with the logic. It is like, love your children, hate your children and the real truth will emerge.
Very few things should be at public expense. Let the great unwinding begin. Sadly, it’s this kind of grifting distraction that steals away our attention into other rooms of the mind, entirely.
I flirted with Libertarianism pre-Covid. I always worried about the safety net. Now that I see the formula used for the military-industrial complex (problem, fear, propaganda, and PR that it is only good citizenry to follow) has been used for the homeless industrial complex, covid and every other power grab, I now am full onboard with Ron Paul.
The fight for truth, the fight for an equal voice, will always be an uphill battle against the indoctrination funded in our public schools. When a group refuses another’s right to challenge a thought, how can there ever be compromise or discussion?
Excellent article. Thank you for your time & effort in consolidating all this into such a graphic and informative post. Unfortunately, as Aldous Huxley feared in his 1931 book 'Brave New World', without that 'feature rich' formatting, many just do not have the desire nor attention span to read just words, and in this case, people need to SEE what's in these books to truly believe it.
This article may be confusing, but looking at the title (and the subtitle), it’s about private funding of institutions to fight legal battles regarding public issues. It’s not about pornography, sexual deviance, or anything equivalent; (these are just “helper” topics that created the incentive for funding of the specific case). Now, readers want to fight about these helper topics here, now, rather than discuss the actual, larger topic of the article. Be warned.
“Gayness” (as well as any of many other sorts of “perversions”) is omni-present in the wilds of humanity. To some of us self-styled “normal parents”, it may feel exceedingly rare, contra-normal, and in the interests of the “other” people who are not like us (them, etc).
To see privately funded groups (like “Citizens United”) is an affront to some - perhaps even a greater majority - of some group.
Nonetheless, the idea (eg that a white woman could have sex with a non-white man - perhaps even marry) was once quite perverse, illogical, unnatural, ... until some private groups supported public challenges to such predilections of differently minded.
While I don’t want my 11 year old girl accidentally reading such material, seeing such pictures, I’d rather society not be legally restricted from its exposure. These are interesting times but I think I know which way we go as Americans. These “illocit” behaviors are NORMAL but sadly, are prone to grifting. Such is capitalism. These are the incentives in play. These are our values.
Always remember what happens when that old shoe gets put on the other foot.
"The idea...was once quite perverse....until...public challenges to such predilections of differently minded." You seem to be implying that one day making porn accessible to children will no longer be considered unnatural. YOU, as an adult, are not legally restricted from exposure to any of these materials.
Sex - even “perverse” sex - is normal. Whether it’s shown to children is an entirely different topic. I only want to point out that condemning a private funding to libraries to fight legal grifting is as normal as funding things like citizens United. Everyone wants to believe that they are “normal” and their views are “truth”. Good luck. Remember that thing I said about the other shoe.
Your first sentence is a distraction as I never said anything about adults engaged in sex, including fetishes, being abnormal. The "other shoe" argument stops dead in it's tracks when it comes to protecting children from the sexual proclivities and manipulations of adults.
Clearly, you really want to talk about children being “exposed” to other peoples habits that are within range of normal behaviour that people don’t normally discuss in public.
Not everyone agrees on the definition of "normal" sexual behavior, and it's not up to anyone but parents to decide what and when to teach their children about sex (and religion). Pedophilia is a sexual behavior that most "normal" people don't want their children exposed to, yet one of the graphic books the pedos want badly to market to kids includes an illustration of a bearded adult male gripping the erect penis of a teen boy. The entire book, as many of these freak books do, revolve around genitalia and thinking incessantly about genitalia and ways to stimulate genitalia. And all this time I thought we were supposed to be spending taxpayer $ to teach reading, writing and math. The adults who push to ram these books on children should be called the Glorious Genitalia.
You’re right. Nobody gets to be in charge of defining “normal”. As with everything, “teach your children well”. Don’t help them believe everything they see, read, or hear. But one day, they’re going to see, read, and hear it. That’s for sure.
For me, this is a 10 minute discussion with our daughter about things other people tend to do that her mother and myself don’t do ourselves - not unlike our converation about the so called “heaven and hell”
That's your prerogative. That's the other foot. I have zero desire to interfere in your family and ram my beliefs on your daughter.