This serial pedophile Gabriel Matzneff—the author of a book called Under 16 Years old—was defended in the best newspapers by the likes of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Foucault. He won a big award as recently as 2013 and still receives a government allowance.
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Though mores are definitely changing, one of the things that is extremely alien to me in this culture is a certain kind of 1968-inflected, mostly left-wing attitude that can condone this stuff. It's what allows Polanski to still be celebrated here.
It's just crazy: "In “Les Moins de Seize Ans,’’ or “Under 16 Years Old,” he writes, “To sleep with a child, it’s a holy experience, a baptismal event, a sacred adventure.” First published in 1974, it was republished in 2005"
Also, on a side-sidebar: what are these "government allowances" older writers are getting??? cc, @mirakamdar @PhilKlay
Anyway, this book by one of his victims from @EditionsGrasset is important and should be translated: grasset.fr/livres/le-cons…
@mirakamdar @PhilKlay actually, this might be the craziest quote: "Libération, the newspaper co-founded by Sartre, championed pedophiles as a discriminated minority and ran personal ads by adults seeking children for sex."
@mirakamdar @PhilKlay what my wife tried to explain to me about the crazy era in france producing the idea that children should be "liberated" to have sex with adults, was that the people arguing for this were the *wokest of the woke*. sartre, foucault, et al believed they were being *progressive*.
@mirakamdar @PhilKlay @PhilKlay i guess you've already zeroed in on the lesson that wokeness taken to the extreme leads to madness
