1 hr 16 min

Episode 80: Because God Hates Us Or Is Dead, Here's A Whole Episode About Noah Berlatsky And Pedophilia Blocked and Reported

    • Society & Culture

An urgent investigation.
Show notes/Links:
Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314
More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a
Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 
New version, which appears to have excised this reference: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops 
Berlatsky: Katie Halper said we focus too much on anti-Semitism when discussing the Holocaust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maybe-taking-of-13515855 
Carl Beijer on Berlatsky vs. Halper: https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/some-pretty-egregious-misrepresentation-from-noah-berlatsky
Berlatsky Berlastskying his review of "The Coddling Of The American Mind": https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1039654096515616768 
"Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Chait to Chapo and Brooks to Breitbart": https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF 
Berlatsky has stories about Jesse but no receipts: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1085910748159565825 
* as of when we're posting this episode, his tweets are protected, so you may not be able to read them until he goes public again
All the kids are talking about is Jesse's Atlantic article: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1281662776759537675?lang=en 
The (official) Jesse Singal Resource Page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 
Negative coverage of Berlatsky and Prostasia: https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/meet-noah-berlatsky-prostasia-foundation-wonder-woman-rutgers-university-press-author-normalising-pedophilia/
https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Some of his Prostasia stuff:  https://prostasia.org/blog/author/noah/
https://prostasia.org/blog/the-science-behind-adolescent-autonomy/
"parents are tyrants": https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1338586940157927427?lang=en 
This American Life on virtuous pedophiles: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/522/tarred-and-feathered/act-two-0 
Jesse's coverage of pedophilia:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/salon-shouldnt-have-unpublished-its-pedophilia-article.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 
https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/britain-has-a-hotline-for-pedophiles.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 
Katie's:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/20/29453977/online-support-groups-can-keep-pedophiles-from-offending-but-they-keep-getting-shut-down 
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/07/15/40768104/jeffrey-epstein-is-a-horrifying-person-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-a-pedophile 
Canadian effort to get pedophiles help: https://talkingforchange.ca/ 
Same deal in Germany: https://undark.org/2021/06/07/radical-and-controversial-treatment-for-pedophilia/ 
MAP Support Club: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/
Only tangentially connected to PF: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/map-support-clubs-partnership-with-prostasia-foundation
Background on policy on minors: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/our-decision-to-instate-the-minors-channel-and-switch-out-dms-for-minors
Can maybe help with suicide: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/
About Minor Attraction: https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org/about-minor-attraction.html
Thomas Arthur:
https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/crime/thomas-arthur-terlingua-website-child-sexual-abuse/513-88345e1d-abb7-4e1e-8654-deddb9cf8af4
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-prison-running-child-obscenity-website
The criminal complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6548074-Thomas-Alan-Arthur-Criminal-Complaint.html
Prostasia's statement about this whole thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pY

An urgent investigation.
Show notes/Links:
Ben Burgis: “He’s one the most consistently and maliciously dishonest writers alive.”: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1431686876541325314
More from Burgis: https://benburgis.medium.com/noah-berlatskys-critique-of-class-first-leftism-c9a738caf77a
Old version of Freddie deBoer's Planet of Cops essay, which linked to Berlatsky's work: http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-woke-world-is-world-of-snitches.html?m=1 
New version, which appears to have excised this reference: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops 
Berlatsky: Katie Halper said we focus too much on anti-Semitism when discussing the Holocaust: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maybe-taking-of-13515855 
Carl Beijer on Berlatsky vs. Halper: https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/some-pretty-egregious-misrepresentation-from-noah-berlatsky
Berlatsky Berlastskying his review of "The Coddling Of The American Mind": https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1039654096515616768 
"Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Chait to Chapo and Brooks to Breitbart": https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF 
Berlatsky has stories about Jesse but no receipts: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1085910748159565825 
* as of when we're posting this episode, his tweets are protected, so you may not be able to read them until he goes public again
All the kids are talking about is Jesse's Atlantic article: https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1281662776759537675?lang=en 
The (official) Jesse Singal Resource Page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 
Negative coverage of Berlatsky and Prostasia: https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/meet-noah-berlatsky-prostasia-foundation-wonder-woman-rutgers-university-press-author-normalising-pedophilia/
https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Some of his Prostasia stuff:  https://prostasia.org/blog/author/noah/
https://prostasia.org/blog/the-science-behind-adolescent-autonomy/
"parents are tyrants": https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1338586940157927427?lang=en 
This American Life on virtuous pedophiles: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/522/tarred-and-feathered/act-two-0 
Jesse's coverage of pedophilia:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/salon-shouldnt-have-unpublished-its-pedophilia-article.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 
https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/britain-has-a-hotline-for-pedophiles.html#_ga=2.73832657.2138172432.1630631362-1425867110.1621528509 
Katie's:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/20/29453977/online-support-groups-can-keep-pedophiles-from-offending-but-they-keep-getting-shut-down 
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/07/15/40768104/jeffrey-epstein-is-a-horrifying-person-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-a-pedophile 
Canadian effort to get pedophiles help: https://talkingforchange.ca/ 
Same deal in Germany: https://undark.org/2021/06/07/radical-and-controversial-treatment-for-pedophilia/ 
MAP Support Club: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/
Only tangentially connected to PF: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/map-support-clubs-partnership-with-prostasia-foundation
Background on policy on minors: https://blog.mapsupport.club/msc/our-decision-to-instate-the-minors-channel-and-switch-out-dms-for-minors
Can maybe help with suicide: https://prostasia.org/blog/an-introduction-to-map-support-club/
About Minor Attraction: https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org/about-minor-attraction.html
Thomas Arthur:
https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/crime/thomas-arthur-terlingua-website-child-sexual-abuse/513-88345e1d-abb7-4e1e-8654-deddb9cf8af4
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-prison-running-child-obscenity-website
The criminal complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6548074-Thomas-Alan-Arthur-Criminal-Complaint.html
Prostasia's statement about this whole thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pY

1 hr 16 min

Top Podcasts In Society & Culture

Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption
iHeartPodcasts
Inconceivable Truth
Wavland
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
This American Life
This American Life
Shawn Ryan Show
Shawn Ryan | Cumulus Podcast Network
The Viall Files
Nick Viall