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He's not arguing the law is wrong. He was simply trying to rationalize his own experience, which would be deemed as illegal abuse of a minor (since he was 14), in saying that perhaps there are cases where consent can be given earlier, like his own. But in the end he relented to saying that the law is correct, and serves as a viable standard for when young people can give consent.
Considering his occupation as a provocatuer, and someone who often questions people's rigid ways of looking at such subjects, these comments cannot be taken as an outright defense of pedophilia, but rather an attempt at upsetting Rogan's more rigid view on the subject, and testing his moral back-bone. He quickly goes on to say, after the debate, that if there is going to be any efforts to normalizing pedophilia, it's probably going to be by the progressives, not by the likes of him. He also made other, anti-pedophilia comments during the Podcast, which obviously weren't brought up, conveniently. Of course he has also exposed pedophiles through his articles.
Again, these comments were well-known for over a year before a scandal was manufactured out of them. Taken out of context, sure they look bad, but that is why we ought to take words in context, not out of it.
I am a liberal, I hate Milo and think he betrayed the LGTBQ community, I despise Breitbart, Bannon and Fascism, and I have to agree with this post.
He was talking about his own personal experiences. Bad things happened to him and we cannot just put our heads in the sand and pretend Milo doesn't feel the way he feels about a situation where he, as a 14 year old boy, was molested by an older man.
Milo said he was fine with it.
He in fact is.... it doesn't bother him.
That's not OK but it's the truth. It is HIS experience.
We need to ask ourselves how that can happen and face this. That doesn't mean accepting pedophilia in any way shape or form. That is obviously never, ever something we can do as a society or as individuals.
But he said what he said about his experience and I personally don't know how to deal with it, but I don't think shutting down and blocking it out of my brain is an option I will give myself....
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