#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
The Fifth Column
What Is It Like to Be a Groomer?
"When you hear people who are involved in politics use the word groomer pejoratively on a one to ten scale, 10 being like Jesus Christ, you're doing the satanic panic except with groomers," he said. "I actually wrote an article for The New York Times when this bill was introduced and I made the point that this kind of rhetoric is quite harmful to gay men in particular." He added: "The worst thing you can say about a gay man is that he's a pedophile...that's really kind of like the blood libel for homosexuality"
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