{"id":1754210,"date":"2022-11-28T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754210"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:49:33","slug":"slippery-slope-washington-post-gives-rave-review-for-play-about-pedophiles-treating-them-kinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slippery-slope-washington-post-gives-rave-review-for-play-about-pedophiles-treating-them-kinder\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Slope: Washington Post Gives Rave Review For Play About Pedophiles, Treating Them Kinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fslippery-slope-washington-post-gives-rave-review-for-play-about-pedophiles-treating-them-kinder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Do you ever get the sense that the Left is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-cannot-ignore-the-slippery-slope-of-minor-attracted-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">normalize pedophilia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, you do. It\u2019s hard not to have that impression. Liberals have gone off the rails over the past decade. Fashion brands are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-unloads-on-balenciaga-over-child-photo-shoot-scandal?utm_campaign=news&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_content=dwtwitter&#038;cid=news&#038;mid=t&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">releasing bondage-bound teddy bear advertisements<\/a> that sexualize children. Using progressive logic, if children can consent to change their gender, they can consent to a whole lot more.<\/p>\n<p>It is all an entirely perverse and disordered slippery slope.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have The Washington Post writing a rave review for a play that casts pedophiles in a sympathetic light, suggesting their punishments are often too harsh.<\/p>\n<p>In a column titled, \u201c\u2018Downstate\u2019 is a play about pedophiles. It\u2019s also brilliant,\u201d theater critic Peter Marks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/theater-dance\/2022\/11\/23\/downstate-bruce-norris-pedophiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> the play for being \u201ctough stuff, questioning how society treats those convicted of heinous acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As described by Marks, Bruce Norris \u2014 the playwright behind the production \u2014 paints these child molesters in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s loaded the dice to some degree in \u2018Downstate,\u2019 as the predators who\u2019ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls,\u201d Marks claims.<\/p>\n<p>The play also makes a victim of one of the main characters\u00a0 \u2014 a now-grown man who was molested by his instructor during a piano practice \u2014 out to be the bad guy in the story.<\/p>\n<p>So why does Marks find this garbage to be so enlightening and worthy of praise?<\/p>\n<p>Well, as Marks explains it\u2019s not for everybody \u2014 especially those staunchly against pedophilia and who believe in true justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome theatergoers no doubt will resent that Norris chose to illuminate this delicate subject in a nuanced way that doesn\u2019t jibe with their own undiluted revulsion,\u201d Marks explains. \u201cIf you suspect you are one of these people, \u2018Downstate\u2019 is not for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet if you have an open mind to the topic, or whatever, then maybe this is your cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many others, it will be a stunning demonstration of the power of narrative art to tackle a taboo, to compel us to look at a controversial topic from novel perspectives,\u201d Marks said.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing to discuss \u2014 except whether or not pedophiles deserve tougher sentences such as the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that\u2019s just it. Many on the Left want to make that viewpoint <em>old-fashioned<\/em>. There are movements to change the name of the pedophile to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/minor-attracted-person-inside-the-growing-effort-to-destigmatize-pedophilia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minor-attracted person<\/a>\u201d and make it societally acceptable. This play is part of that slippery slope.<\/p>\n<p>As heavyweight boxer and author Ed Latimore explained, \u201cThe fact that the play got made is already a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling it \u2018brilliant\u2019 is disgusting,\u201d Latimore tweeted. \u201cThe part where you wanna burn it all down is when the @washingtonpos described the character of the victim as \u2018the most disagreeable character\u2019 who is played \u2018irritatingly well.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The fact that the play got made is already a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it &#8220;brilliant&#8221; is disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@washingtonpost<\/a> described the character of the victim as &#8220;the most disagreeable character&#8221; who is played &#8220;irritatingly well.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mfj47VCHs4\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mfj47VCHs4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdLatimore\/status\/1597023103522988032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of this is an attempt to destigmatize pedophilia.\u00a0 Norris\u2019 play wants the viewer to believe that we need to change our views on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>You would only give out lighter sentences to these creeps if what you think they did is acceptable or at the very least not as bad of a crime as it\u2019s treated now. Of course, it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s heinously evil, but some want to convince you otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever get the sense that the Left is trying to normalize pedophilia? Well, of course, you do. It\u2019s hard not to have that impression. Liberals have gone off the rails over the past decade. Fashion brands are releasing bondage-bound teddy bear advertisements that sexualize children. 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