All right, this one is a bit of a doozy.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29654291
He came out and, in my judgment, made very reasonable remarks.
The comments that came under fire:
The immediate uncritical response:
Then, of course, the ultimate punishment SJWs have in store for Grisham:
Grisham has already backed off the comments:
This is obviously a very touchy subject. If I were Grisham, I wouldn't have poked at it with a 10 foot pole. That being said, is he wrong here? Seems reasonable to me.
Thoughts?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29654291
He came out and, in my judgment, made very reasonable remarks.
The comments that came under fire:
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"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody, would never touch a child, but they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn."
US judges had "gone crazy" during the last 30 years, he added.
"I have no sympathy for real pedophiles. God, please lock those people up. But so many of these guys do not deserve harsh prison sentences, and that's what they're getting."
The immediate uncritical response:
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"Mr Grisham's comments send a dangerous message that 'just looking' at images online causes no harm," Jon Brown from the children's charity NSPCC told BBC News online.
"In fact, every image is a real child who has suffered and every time these images are clicked on or downloaded it creates demand that ultimately fuels more child abuse."
Then, of course, the ultimate punishment SJWs have in store for Grisham:
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Meanwhile, London-based child abuse lawyer Dino Nocivelli urged the author to meet survivors of abuse "to educate himself and to truly understand the inappropriateness of his comments"
Grisham has already backed off the comments:
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"My comments... were in no way intended to show sympathy for those convicted of sex crimes, especially the sexual molestation of children," he wrote. "I can think of nothing more despicable."
This is obviously a very touchy subject. If I were Grisham, I wouldn't have poked at it with a 10 foot pole. That being said, is he wrong here? Seems reasonable to me.
Thoughts?