Conservative host Megyn Kelly suggested that she did not initially believe Jeffrey Epstein was an "actual pedophile" because he reportedly victimized girls aged 15 and older.Kelly spoke to journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon about Epstein on Wednesday after Democrats released emails suggesting President D...
I mean, technically correct?
People use the term wrong, but people who are ruled by emotion and not facts hate to think things through rationally. Which is the majority of everyone.
The term as used might not be consistent with a specific definition, but I’m pretty sure this wasn’t about “technically, that isn’t the correct term to denounce his sexual abuse of minors with” so much as shifting the goalposts for what counts as sexual abuse of minors in the first place. It’s a shorthand, and both parties agree what it’s short for, it’s just that they draw the lines for that thing differently.
So no, it’s not that people “hate to think things through rationally”, because rationally thinking things through makes it clear that the context isn’t a scientific one, but a moral and legal one. It’s not wrong, you’re just emotionally attached to a specific meaning.
She’s not having a discussion about semantics.
I’d add that pedophilia could be the genera and ephebophile the species.
Or whatever the corresponding trinomial nomenclature is.
A teenager is still a kid. Legally, ethically, morally.
Technically correct, but media never uses it that way. People generally do not differentiate the two
The fact she is making this distinction, which she has never made before for anyone, tells me she’s priming her audience to be okay with rich and powerful men raping underage women
Ding ding ding And this may or may not be her own opinion as well, but right now she’s -as per usual- parroting exactly what she’s been told, what’s she’s been paid to say
She’s ex fox news, lying for money is her only real skill
I disagree. Look in the dictionary, or a few dictionaries, and you will see that there are multiple definitions, one of which matches common usage.
This happens all the time with language. Sorry, but you gotta keep an eye on how words evolve!
Technically Pedarest. Sure. It’s still 10 times to Monday illegal and disgusting.
Watch them keep moving the goal post. Next “10 year olds are practically teens!”
“This is why kids shouldn’t be dressing like that these days!”
Yup it’s true. He was a rapist and ephebophile.
could be both, we don’t know the extent of his depravity.