Huh. So, here in the UK, one of the most prominent and important politicians within one of our main two parties actually outright lobbied on behalf of the Pedophile Information Exchange (roughly equivalent to NAMBLA) early on in her career, and there's a strong argument this helped get her the position she has today - the PIE-affiliated activist group she was working for had and still has close ties to that party, and a lot of people from it got prominent political roles. Despite this revelation, she has the full backing of the party and it doesn't seem to have hurt her career in the slightest.
Whilst the UK obviously isn't exactly the same politically as the US (though they have a huge amount of political cross-polination) I get the distinct impression that pedo advocacy by people of the right tribe is treated as far less of an offence than holding views that are actually widespread but go against the woke consensus.
That sounds pretty shit! I probably would complain to the party's leadership about that, a bunch, asking them to stop working with her- well, at the VERY least unless she publically repudiates the group she lobbied for and says she doesn't support their views. I think that's an absolutely fair response to the situation.
I'm not naming them because it's not terribly important, it's absolutely trivial to figure out who I'm referencing if you do care, and it'd probably be an absolute pain to explain to Americans why they're so important anyway since our political system is structured so differently.
Are you talking about Harriet Harman? She's not even in the shadow cabinet. And I'm not American, so you don't have to explain it to me. Quit with the lame excuses :)
Of course it's Harman - who else? And as for the contents of the shadow cabinet... as I'm sure you know that varies a lot, she spent most of her career in either the cabinet or shadow cabinet, and right now I'm not sure I could really describe any of its current members as either prominent or influential. No doubt the fact that the actual current Leader of the Opposition was almost infinitely more obscure a figure than someone like Harman until less than a year ago plays a role in this. (Apparently, she's currently Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, one of a few big-name former Labour cabinet members with non-cabinet roles like this.)
Anyway, we're now way off topic, which is why I didn't want to go into this kind of detail in the first place.
It is dishonest to describe Harman as one of the most prominent and important politicians in our two main parties. You should edit or delete your comment.
Whilst the UK obviously isn't exactly the same politically as the US (though they have a huge amount of political cross-polination) I get the distinct impression that pedo advocacy by people of the right tribe is treated as far less of an offence than holding views that are actually widespread but go against the woke consensus.