• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    Locking this thread because some threads have spiraled and people are violating the “don’t be a jerk” rule.

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    Say what you will about Bill Maher

    Don’t mind if I do.

    Bill Maher is a pedophile:

    “She is in jail because she is in love. That’s how I view it. Basically, they’re having a family and they’re keeping the mother in jail because she won’t conform to what society feels should be the perfect American family.”

    -Bill Maher on a 19 year old who raped a 12 year old boy and got pregnant with his child.

    “If a 28-year-old male teacher is screwing a 13-year-old girl, that’s a crime. But with Debra Lafave [another teacher who had sex with a student] screwing her 14-year-old boy student, the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape. Was he being taken advantage of? I wish I had been taken advantage of like that. What a memory she gave him!”

    -Bill Maher on why teachers raping students should be legal so long as he gets to watch child porn of it.

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/flashback-bill-mahers-has-his-own-history-of-defending-sex-between-adults-and-minors/amp/

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      this does make him a terrible person, but not a pedophile.

      and he fantasizes about being an adolscent that gets taken advantage of an adult.

      thats the opposite of a pedophile.

      and anyway, what you mean is Hebephilia, not pedophelia.

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        “the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape”

        Yeah, the guy openly talking about the kind of child porn he wants to watch isn’t a pedophile…

        Folks like you will let powerful men get away with anything. He literally talked about how hot he thought child rape was, and fantasized about having it on video, and you’re still giving him the benefit of a doubt…

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          i don’t have doubts. I am sure about what i say. there is no crime at hand.

          folks like you are the reason we have this kind of problem in the first place. you dumb everything down, and put your own projections into your sourroundings. its a sensational, truth bending rethoric.

          you do your people no favour at all.

          is it morally heinus? absolutely. is there an actual video that he watched? no. is there an video? well, we don’t know. it was not mentioned in the case.

          yes, he excersizied his right of free spech. should he be smacked in the jaw for this kind of talk? yes. does he have to lick your boots and shut his mouth? no.

          democracy baby.

          definition of child porn.

          Child pornography under federal law is defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict a minor who is recognizable as an actual person by the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic. Undeveloped film, undeveloped videotape, and electronically stored data that can be converted into a visual image of child pornography are also deemed illegal visual depictions under federal law.[7] The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that images created by superimposing the face of a child on sexually explicit photographs of legal adults is not protected speech under the First Amendment.[8] However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “virtual child pornography” was constitutionally protected speech, unless meeting the criteria of obscenity.[9][10]

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            I never accused him of a crime, I accused him of being a pedophile.

            If someone tells me that they want to watch child porn, I’m not waiting for a criminal conviction to reach the conclusion that they are a pedophile.

            Why you wish to defend his honor, when we both agree that what he said was disgusting, is beyond me.

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                I’ll say it. I find your defense of Bill Maher here disturbing and it makes me wonder if you are sick like him.

                The man said the real crime was that there was not a video of that woman raping a minor. He is wishing for child porn. You are defending that. Gross. I don’t care if it’s a pedophilia, hemophilia or any other kind of weird ass words you want to use to make it seem acceptable, It’s not. you should feel ashamed for defending it.