There are bad press releases, and then there’s whatever the hell the Catholic League released late last week in response to the Jeffrey Epstein emails.
You may have seen clips of former Fox News host Megyn Kelly attempting to downplay the seriousness of what the late New York financier and his associates did. He wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds,” said Kelly, adding “but he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.” She then added: “There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?
Her argument, then, is that it’s unfair for anyone to call Epstein a “pedophile” because he wasn’t technically into little kids. He was only into slightly older kids, which technically makes him an ephebophile. So Calm Down Everyone!
It was a horrible argument because the technicality doesn’t make a difference. Epstein exploited children and a lot of people apparently knew about it. It’s not so complicated that we have to parse the language to separate various classes of children.
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