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Richard Dawkins-''mild pedophilia'' scandal [link]

Posted by Manstuprator on 2023-November-9 11:39:58, Thursday

Lots of rich and famous people, when young, have been "touched up" by peer-aged friends or by adults in their lives. And many of them say that the experiences were not harmful, or perhaps just confusing or uncomfortable. So what about the "child sexual abuse" narrative? What these people say often puts the lie to it.

But why don't we hear about it? The following real-life story is one example why.

Richard Dawkins first wrote about, then spoke about how he was (supposedly) "sexually abused" by fellow classmates in his early schooling years. And he said that the experience had not really harmed him. He also describes how he was (supposedly) "sexually abused" by some of his teachers, too. And, again, it did him no harm (though he said it was unpleasant).

He made these statements in his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, published in 2006.

That's when the shit hit the fan. There was outrage that he wasn't "respecting" (supposedly) "real" victims of child sexual abuse.

Richard Dawkins was also a "real" victim of (supposed) "sexual abuse" but he was NOT permitted to talk about his own lived experiences. He was effectively silenced.

The reactions that people like Dawkins receive -- instant and often extremely violent -- to describing adult/child sexual behavior as benign, or even positive, prevents the public from seeing "the other side of the question" and leads to everybody accepting the "child sexual abuse" narrative at face value.

When actually, it is mainly a load of crap!

Even many posters here have "drunk the Kool-Aid".

The screaming feminazis silence everything that they disapprove of. Including us, and the boys we've known and had relations with.

Let's all try to learn the truth, and not echo what the idiots say, OK?

LEARN ABOUT THE CHILD ABUSE NARRATIVE:
https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=BoyLover_child-abuse_narrative&redirect=no

EXAMPLES OF "ANTI'S" REACTIONS TO DAWKINS' REMARKS:
Richard Dawkins Pedophilia Remarks Provoke Outrage
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514

THE Times magazine INTERVIEW THAT SPARKED THE FIRESTORM:
"The world according to Richard Dawkins
The scientist and Selfish Gene author talks to Giles Whittell about his new memoir, his childhood abuse – and what it’s like for an atheist to be labelled a fundamentalist
In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7 2013), Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called "the mild pedophilia" he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s."
ARTICLE LINK:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130909205610/http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/9/7/the-world-according-to-richard-dawkins-the-times

ANOTHER COPY OF THE Times magazine ARTICLE--SEARCH FOR "Sex Abuse Moral Panic Questioned" AND CLICK "expand":
PREFACE TO THE ARTICLE:
Sex Abuse Moral Panic Questioned
September 11, 2013
"The internet is abuzz with reaction to an article on Richard Dawkins in the (London) Times Magazine. Mr Dawkins belittles the moral panic against childhood sexual abuse. The article closes with some quotes from his own writing on the effects, or harmlessness, of sexual abuse in his own childhood. Trifling incidents of sexuality are today a pretext for social workers to remove children from their families. The original Times article is blocked by a paywall, but Mr Dawkins copied it to his own site (enclosed)."
FROM THE ARTICLE:
"I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild paedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”
"He said the most notorious cases of pedophilia involve rape and even murder and should not be bracketed with what he called "just mild touching up."
[...]
"In the book, Dawkins mentions one occasion when a teacher put a hand down his trousers at a prep school in Salisbury, and four others at Oundle, when he “had to fend off nocturnal visits to my bed from senior boys much larger and stronger than I was”. The Oundle incidents don’t seem to have bothered him. The prep school one did, but he still can’t bring himself to condemn it, partly because the kind of comparison his adult mind deploys is with the mass murders carried out by Genghis Khan in the 12th century. “Without condoning what was done, at least try to put on the goggles of the period and see it through those eyes,” he says. “I find it much harder to put on those goggles where we’re talking about the monstrous cruelty that went on in past times. It’s hard to think of that and to forgive using modern standards in the same way as it might be for the schoolmaster who touched me up but didn’t actually do me any physical violence.”
THE ARTICLE LINK:
https://www.fixcas.com/news/2013/b2013e.htm

QUOTES IN THE ABOVE ARE FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
DESCRIPTION:
"RICHARD DAWKINS' first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It was also in this book that Dawkins coined the term meme, a unit of cultural evolution, which has itself become a mainstay in contemporary culture. In An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene. He paints a vivid picture of his idyllic childhood in colonial Africa, peppered with sketches of his colorful ancestors, charming parents, and the peculiarities of colonial life right after World War II. At boarding school, despite a near-religious encounter with an Elvis record, he began his career as a skeptic by refusing to kneel for prayer in chapel. Despite some inspired teaching throughout primary and secondary school, it was only when he got to Oxford that his intellectual curiosity took full flight, ultimately climaxing in the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, which made Dawkins a world famous public intellectual engaged in social activism."
DOWNLOAD, IN VARIOUS FORMATS:
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Richard+Dawkins+2013+An+Appetite+for+Wonder




The Wikipedia article on Dawkins doesn't bother to mention the scandal. Or do they wish to "erase" anything that doesn't strongly condemn "pedophilia"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins




DAWKINS THEN WENT ON TO CONDEMN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR POISONING THE MINDS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN WITH HORRIBLE VISIONS OF HELL:

Religion's Real Child Abuse
By Richard Dawkins
Added: Monday, 15 May 2006 at 1:00 AM
"In the wake of the current scandal over child abuse by priests , I have had a letter from an American woman in her mid forties who was brought up Roman Catholic. She has two strong recollections from when she was seven. She was sexually abused by her parish priest in his car. And around the same time a little schoolfriend of hers, who had tragically died, went to hell because she was a Protestant. Or so my correspondent was led to believe by the then official doctrine of her church. Her view now is that, of these two examples of Roman Catholic child abuse, the one physical and the other mental, the second was by far the worst. She writes:
"Being fondled by the priest simply left the impression (from the mind of a 7 year old) as 'yuchy' while the memory of my friend going to hell was one of cold, immeasurable fear. I never lost sleep because of the priest ? but I spent many a night being terrified that the people I loved would go to Hell. It gave me nightmares."
I am sure her experience is far from unique. And what if we assume a less altruistic child, worried about her own eternity rather than a friend's? Odious as the physical abuse of children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them less lasting damage than the mental abuse of bringing them up Catholic in the first place."
VIEW ARTICLE HERE:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111005050911/http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AS .PDF FOR DOWNLOADING:
https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160101/p09.pdf
ARCHIVED COPY:
http://web.archive.org/web/20221222144554/https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160101/p09.pdf

HOW DOES THE PUBLIC REACT TO "PEDOPHILES" (DUE TO THE PUBLIC'S BRAINWASHING BY MEDIA)?
SEE:
https://www.boywiki.org/en/List_of_anti-pedophile_quotes
AND:
https://www.newgon.net/wiki/List_of_anti-MAP_quotes
... FOR JUICY QUOTES

A VERY LONG LIST OF POSITIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT MAN/BOY SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN MALES THAT YOU NEVER EVER HEAR ABOUT:
https://www.newgon.net/wiki/Testimony:_Adult_Male_with_Minor_Male




So what do you think about the above information. Do you think that it is all lies by self-serving child molesters and sexual predators who just want to fuck little boys in the ass, whether the boys want it or not?

Or could there be some truth to it.

What do you think?

M.



ALL LINKS FROM ABOVE (EXCEPT THE "JUICY QUOTES" AND THE "LONG LIST" LINKS ABOVE):

LEARN ABOUT THE CHILD ABUSE NARRATIVE:
https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=BoyLover_child-abuse_narrative&redirect=no

Richard Dawkins Pedophilia Remarks Provoke Outrage
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514

http://web.archive.org/web/20130909205610/http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/9/7/the-world-according-to-richard-dawkins-the-times

ANOTHER COPY OF THE Times magazine ARTICLE--SEARCH FOR "Sex Abuse Moral Panic Questioned" AND CLICK "expand":
https://www.fixcas.com/news/2013/b2013e.htm

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Richard+Dawkins+2013+An+Appetite+for+Wonder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

Religion's Real Child Abuse
http://web.archive.org/web/20111005050911/http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AS .PDF FOR DOWNLOADING:
https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160101/p09.pdf
ARCHIVED COPY:
http://web.archive.org/web/20221222144554/https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160101/p09.pdf



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