In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called "mild pedophilia," which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child and does not believe causes "lasting harm."
Dawkins went on to say that one of his former school masters "pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts," and that to condemn this "mild touching up" as sexual abuse today would somehow be unfair.
"I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today," he said.
Plus, he added, though his other classmates also experienced abuse at the hands of this teacher, "I don't think he did any of us lasting harm."
https://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/
This is not the first time. Multiple times he has tried to normalize pedophilia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/richard-dawkins-defends-mild-pedophilia-again-and-again/311230/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iSxEtgEGs
What the hell is wrong with this man?
Wikipedia on him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
Dawkins has been awarded many prestigious academic and writing awards and he makes regular television, radio and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism, and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual.
He has won numerous awards and is known as one of the world's top scientists. Seriously.
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Podge512 ago
I recall he also said that a paedophile priest raping a child does not do as much harm to the child as does teaching them to believe in God. Absolute fucking degenerate!
GeorgeT ago
He is a useful idiot for the Globalist agenda. I read his books, listen to his 'debates' and my final verdict was - a lost soul. His ignorance is startling! Little does he realize that radical atheism is a cult onto itself, no different from Scientology.
Tanngrisnir ago
Pretty much. I don't think that Dawkins is a genuine pedophile but I think that he has such a gargantuan ego that he thinks since he was groped as a child and it caused him no lasting harm that therefore it causes no one harm. He could easily talk about the evolution of neuroplasticity and how being molested at a young age can warp your sexuality, in keeping with his evolutionary views. But he would rather go against religion on issues and rant about his intellectual superiority than actually think about them.
PedoStomper ago
Yeah, that's what I've always gotten from his work. "I'm the smartest, I'm the best, and anyone with a different opinion is a loon!"
Shizy ago
So he thinks he's intellectually superior, yet he's too stupid to see that he's just a lap dog to the elites.