This is from 2023, but I am seeing it for the first time here. Richard Hanania asks “hypothetically,” in a Twitter poll, if it’s OK for Epstein to have sex with a 14-year-old if he pays $10M to a fund that the child will receive when reaching the age of majority. And if everyone involved “agrees.”
“Should this be allowed?” asks Richard Hanania. 👇
This is… vile.
I thought: maybe he’s actually jumping on the (frankly, very healthy and needed) bandwagon of pedophile haters, he’s posting clickbait, and this will come out in a follow-up tweet.
But no.
He is, of course, denounced and ratio’d. He doesn’t seem to care. Or, who knows? He’s not stupid, but maybe he just has bad judgment. Many academics have terrible judgment. So, maybe he was surprised at the negative reaction? But probably not. My hunch is that he is, even today, still laughing about it.
Look at his follow-up tweet, which is shocking in what it openly, publicly reveals. Not the fact that he thinks this way; lots of people think this way. But that he was willing to reveal it openly and publicly is…really something. 👇
