Lucy Mangan: “We need to stop protecting awful men with flimsy wordplay”

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“We need to stop protecting awful men with flimsy wordplay” DonaldTrump BorisJohnson LucyMangan

When I was nine, my parents dragged me to a party because the babysitter hadn’t turned up. At one point, we were separated and I got caught up in a group of guests. A man stood behind me, stroked my hair and said cheerily to the men next to him, “You can see why paedophiles get the idea, can’t you?”

Clearly racist, you might think, possibly as your head dropped to your desk. But you’d be wrong. It was, according to a wide array of sources, merely “racially infused”. Possibly “racially charged” or “a dog whistle” to those straining to hear it. It was “unacceptable”, according to It’s one thing for locals to have called Epstein’s private Caribbean retreat, the centre of the sex trafficking investigation around him, “paedo island” for years, but quite another to actually say what that means. The commentary around musician R Kelly’s arrest has frequently melded racist and pro-predator euphemisms to describe his alleged activities with girls.

 

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