“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
Feb 5, 2026 23:31This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
Sure, a wide array of American elites were palling around with a pedophile and eugenicist but did you know that a Pedro Pascal fan account on bluesky is being slightly hyperbolic when posting about it
Someone should check Ross’s hard drive
SMH What the fuck is wrong with people?
What are the chances she has a “what about the sex trafficking” column from when that was the right wing’s moral panic du jour?
Some of them were younger than 16.
This shit has radicalized me in favor of lowering the voting age to 16, which the people who are rationalizing raping children will be against, and that's why we need to do it.
