The Same Rant, Again

I just feel compelled to repost this:

. . . The very individuals who speak with disdain of the private, adult sexual lives of others, suddenly become coy about the exploitation of teenagers in their care. Those who condemn others for -- sadly -- ordinary sexual indiscretions, are publicly and undeniably revealed to have committed the same (or worse, more destructive) sins, but are somehow exempt.

Because they are sorry. Because they are religious. Because God forgives them and so should you. Because they are Republican. Because such behavior should now be considered private and irrelevant, where it was previously considered 'fair game'. . .

. . . Just as most rape and child molestation is not about sex, the core of these scandals is not about sex, either. It's about hypocrisy, greed, abuse of power (which is, after all, what many who have too much do with it), selfishness, narcissism, and the arrogance of the untouchable. But criminality -- the abuse and deception and exploitation of the weak and uninformed and easily led -- uses the same techniques, in both the commission of the crime and the denial of responsibility . . .

Comments

[Mary Scriver]

I couldn't agree with you more.

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