This came about in 2014, not all that long ago. A wildly successful author, Grisham HAD to know that his comments, especially his WEAK “drunk friend” analogy, made him sound foolish and ignorant. Well-deserved backlash prompted him to walk it back. Makes me wonder WHY he took on this sickening subject in the first place.
Grisham has a lifelong passion for baseball demonstrated partly by his support ofLittle Leagueactivities in both Oxford and in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1996, Grisham built a $3.8 millionyouthbaseball complex...
Grisham said the big case came in 1984, but it wasnot his case. As he washanging around the court, he overheard a12-year-old girltelling the jury what had happened to her. Her story intrigued Grisham, and he began watching the trial. He saw how the members of the jury cried as she told them about having beenraped and beaten. It was then, Grisham later wrote in The New York Times, that a story was born...
In 2010, Grisham started writing a series of legal thrillers forchildren aged 9 to 12 years. It features Theodore Boone, a13-year-oldwho gives his classmates legal advice ranging from rescuing impounded dogs to helping their parents prevent their house from being repossessed. He said, "I'm hoping primarily toentertain and interest kids, but at the same time I'm quietly hoping that the books will inform them, in a subtle way, about law."...
Back to his child porn enabling...
Grisham believes that prison rates in the United States are excessive, and the justice system is "locking up far too many people". Citing examples including "blackteenagerson minor drugs charges" to "those who had viewed child porn online", he controversially added that be [sic] believed not all viewers of child pornography are necessarily pedophiles. After hearing from numerous people against this position, he later recanted this statement in a Facebook post.
Anyone who harms a child for profit or pleasure, or who in any way participates in child pornography—online or otherwise—should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
My comments made two days ago during an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph were in no way intended to show sympathy for those convicted of sex crimes, especially the sexual molestation of children. I can think of nothing more despicable.
I regret having made these comments, and apologize to all.
Without further details as to WHY he regrets having made these comments, I’m left to draw my own conclusions.
Without further details as to WHY he regrets having made these comments, I’m left to draw my own conclusions.
Yes, the marketing devision of his publishing house wrote this statement after angry people called them and said they'd never buy one of his books again....
So from "they shouldn't be send to prison" he changed his mind to "should be punished to the fullest extent of the law".....in no time.
Yes, I’m sure his publishers were cringing. My conclusion - just like most criminals who express remorse for their crimes - he has regrets ONLY because he got caught. For him, caught means: 1) called out by his primary audience for being a pedo apologist/enabler (at the least). He probably won some of them back with this apology, and 2) exposing himself as a pedo apologist/enabler put all of his behavior up for scrutiny. His interest in kids went from admirable to questionable.
Maybe after his apology, this controversy all just went away. Or maybe it changed everything for him, put him on permanent guard when he writes, and speaks in public. With the decades-old dirt that’s currently coming out on celebrities, it’s easy to believe he’s doing some cringing right now.
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rooting4redpillers ago
This came about in 2014, not all that long ago. A wildly successful author, Grisham HAD to know that his comments, especially his WEAK “drunk friend” analogy, made him sound foolish and ignorant. Well-deserved backlash prompted him to walk it back. Makes me wonder WHY he took on this sickening subject in the first place.
John Grisham | Wikipedia
Back to his child porn enabling...
I can’t find that FB post, but here’s Grisham’s statement about this on his website:
Without further details as to WHY he regrets having made these comments, I’m left to draw my own conclusions.
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Yes, the marketing devision of his publishing house wrote this statement after angry people called them and said they'd never buy one of his books again....
So from "they shouldn't be send to prison" he changed his mind to "should be punished to the fullest extent of the law".....in no time.
rooting4redpillers ago
Yes, I’m sure his publishers were cringing. My conclusion - just like most criminals who express remorse for their crimes - he has regrets ONLY because he got caught. For him, caught means: 1) called out by his primary audience for being a pedo apologist/enabler (at the least). He probably won some of them back with this apology, and 2) exposing himself as a pedo apologist/enabler put all of his behavior up for scrutiny. His interest in kids went from admirable to questionable.
Maybe after his apology, this controversy all just went away. Or maybe it changed everything for him, put him on permanent guard when he writes, and speaks in public. With the decades-old dirt that’s currently coming out on celebrities, it’s easy to believe he’s doing some cringing right now.