1./ 🧵@PeterTatchell's awful comments on Ann Widdecombe's death have shocked many in the mainstream media. Why though do they turn a blind eye to something just as shocking: his career-long defence of child sexual abuse? Let me tell you why Tatchell should be a pariah. 👉
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2./ Is there anyone else in public life who has openly defended men raping boys as Tatchell did in a letter to the Guardian in 1997? It ended with this clarion call: "it is time society acknowledged that not all sex with children is unwanted, abusive and harmful." Nah mate.
3./ In his letter Tatchell cited the views of Gilbert Herdt, an anthropologist who studied tribes in Papua New Guinea. Tatchell failed to acknowledge Herdt had also offered advice to paedophile activists in a pro-paedo magazine on how to normalise their abusive sexual perversion.
4./ Tatchell claimed Herdt had found in Papua New Guinea a tribe "where consenting inter-generational sex is considered normal, beneficial and enjoyable by old and young alike." In 2023 I revealed Herdt had in fact described a vision of child-abuse Hell.👇
5./ Herdt's research recorded in detail how adult Sambia men kidnapped boys as young as 7, beat them into submission, taught them how to fellate using flutes then sexually enslaved them. Yet Tatchell portrayed the tribe as some kind of moral example. In fact he still does. 👉
6./ Tatchell's website cites the Sambia and Keraki, another Papua New Guinea tribe, as welcome proof of sexual fluidity since after a period of (child-raping) homosexuality the men are heterosexual. This shows "the future is bisexual", claims Tatchell.🙄
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7./ Tatchell bases these claims on the work of Clellan Ford and Frank Beach who pulled together studies of aboriginal tribes that indicated widespread homosexual activity. Why though did Tatchell focus exclusively on the Sambia and the Keraki? Let me tell you about the Keraki.👉
8./ Instead of forcing boys to fellate them as the Sambia did the Keraki believed boys should be anally raped. Ford and Beach observed, "for nearly a year...they...are constantly at the service of older men, who may be fellow villagers or visitors". For Tatchell this was a model?
9./ Ford and Beach's observations on the Keraki were based on a field study of the tribe by F.E. Williams in the 1930s. He reported some boys suffered from prolapsed rectums after rape. He saw for himself a boy die of infection as a result. Behold ...Tatchell's brave new world!🤮
10./ Of the 49 tribes Ford and Beach said practised homosexuality only 2 have ever been held up by Tatchell as examples. By some amazing coincidence both sexually abused boys as young as 7. Why then do the media turn to this dodgy man for comments on issues related to children?
11./ We look back now with disgust at how the media and Establishment fawned over Jimmy Savile. One day soon we will surely do the same about the way they treat with kid gloves Tatchell, a man who celebrates boy-raping tribesmen and defends child abuse in letters to newspapers.
12./ This sycophancy means journalists and institutions like the police who work with Tatchell ignore his blatantly obvious lies. Tatchell claims, for example, his letter to the Guardian in 1997 argued it was "impossible to condone" sex with children. It didn't though. 👉
13./ Tatchell's letter actually said, "it MAY be impossible to condone sex with children". Do Chief Constables who suck up to Tatchell not wonder about that? Or his long association with Nettie Pollard (in pink below); a leading member of PIE who argued against an age of consent?
14./ Pollard proofread a book of essays in favour of child abuse commissioned by paedo rights group PIE's Deputy Leader Warren Middleton. He would later be jailed when cops busted a child porn gang. Tatchell was happy to write an essay for his book though,
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15./ In 2021 @bindelj revealed Tatchell had also penned a positive review of this book in favour of child abuse. When challenged he claimed someone else wrote the review under his name and he hadn't realised the pro-paedo book he wrote an essay for...was pro-paedo. Sure Petey.🤣
16./ If our media functioned properly they might ask some questions about, for example, the strange erasure in a recent Netflix film on Tatchell of his 7 years in the 1970s. I decided to do the research they didn't bother to do. Guess what I found. 👉
17./ I discovered that in 1977 Tatchell went hiking in Papua New Guinea; the home of the 2 child-raping tribes he has extolled ever since. By then pro-paedo anthropologist Gilbert Herdt whom Tatchell praised in his letter to the Guardian had been studying the Sambia for 2 years.
18./ 2 years after Tatchell's hike in Papua New Guinea, Herdt's academic mentor flew 6000 miles to observe his work. Robert Stoller who coined the term 'gender identity' agreed with Herdt the boy-raping Sambia's behaviour offered a key insight into 'gender identity' formation.
19./ Did Tatchell meet Herdt while hiking in Papua New Guinea? Did they bond over their defence of under-age sex? Either way, it's long past time Tatchell was interrogated properly. Learn more about him and other LGBTQ+ ghouls by clicking on the link in my bio. 👆
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