Renaming pedophilia

The word ‘map’ no longer means just a bit of cartography – it now also means ‘minor attracted person’. In other words – a paedophile. But why would anyone want to call a paedophile anything other than a paedophile? Well, it seems the person promoting this idea of dropping ‘paedophile’ and using ‘map’ instead is someone called Allyn Walker, author of A Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.

Walker, a transgender person, was an academic at a Norfolk, Virginia, university who had to resign that post following a massive backlash against the book. More than 14,000 people signed a petition saying Walker should be sacked. What I find alarming is that the University of California ever decided to publish the book! Just look at the book’s title.

Every sane person believes that paedophiles are not entitled to ‘dignity’ because they harm children. Walker argues that the word ‘map’ for a ‘minor-attracted person’ is less stigmatising and offensive than the word ‘paedophile’. But the rest us of think paedophiles should be stigmatised and what they do is offensive.

Even more alarming is the fact that when the petition appeared demanding Walker be sacked some sixty fellow academics came to Walker’s defence. But the anti-Walker petition got it right when it said, ‘We want to be clear that this is paedophilia and should not be considered a sexual preference’. This is where the sexual revolution in our society is heading – towards normalising paedophilia.

This is about the most appalling example of trying to manipulate language I have ever come across.

https://spectator.com.au/2022/09/language-28/

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http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)

http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)

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http://australian-politics.blogspot.com/ (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)

http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)

https://immigwatch.blogspot.com/ (IMMIGRATION WATCH)

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