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Watching a few of these other countries like England and France start holding investigations in regards to the files will only make this country look worse for doing nothing.
just to chime in about that from a French perspective: the only person really involved in all this for the moment seems to be Jack Lang. and it's just unbelievable that guy is still around and being paid off public money...He's 86! He was minister for Culture when Mitterand, the first French socialist president came to power in 81. I was still in primary school! and I'm old myself 
he was still president of the Arab World Institute in Paris until February, till the Epstein thing.
plus the guy has signed numerous petitions in support of pedophiles, in the glory days of Foucaut and the French intellectuals of 1968 (the "nothing is forbidden" days), he was also famously caught "fooling around" with young moroccon boys in Casablanca, in the 2000's....Good riddance.
Interesting to have Foucault mentioned. I have nothing of importance to add except a girl in one of my classes couldn't figure out how to say his name and called him, "foo-koo" for years. I know how to say his name but every time I read it, in my mind, I think "pho-calt."
Maybe something that isn't completely dumb. I feel like we are living in Foucault's knowledge power cycle in the worst way. Power is defining the stupidist shit as knowledge, which is reinforcing its power and the cycle just keeps going.
It is confounding that there’s an implied expectation that there’ll be no accountability for D.
Why, though, did you single out M.Fouc for sexual transgressions? Notably, he was one of the major French intellectuals refusing to sign the ‘77 petition reducing the age of consent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petitions_against_age-of-consent_laws
WTF? This is all sorts of crazy. The structure of the wiki entry makes it all the crazier/hard to follow.
It seems like three different things are happening in this entry at once:
1. There was an argument that homosexual men should have the same age of consent as heterosexual people. Ok, it is easy to get on board with this one.
2. There was an argument that age of consent should fucking 13!? because that is when kids also become legally responsible for their actions in France. Was this actually an argument for consent or was this against holding minors responsible for legal actions? (I want to believe it was latter, but I already kind of know it was about the former
).
3. There was defense of someone who engaged in abuse of kids?
Man, what the fuck?
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