Episode 80: Because God Hates Us Or Is Dead, Here's A Whole Episode About Noah Berlatsky And Pedophilia
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
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:
Katie's:
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.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/1pYCRHMdbwsjMzEJCX0z2adAh4Lv9jOgDvj8jc9OJ6HY/edit
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| 0:00.0 | what's up. Jesse I have an embarrassing confession to me. |
| 0:10.4 | Yes go for it. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay. You recall last week we had a non correction correction to something that I'd |
| 0:16.9 | said about the writer Juno Diaz. |
| 0:18.8 | Yep. It was pretty confusing and non conclusive I would say. |
| 0:22.9 | Right. So for people who might have missed that, two weeks ago I sat on the show that |
| 0:29.2 | Juno Diaz who was, there were some me two allegations against him. |
| 0:34.7 | So one of the main allegations against him was that he kissed someone non consensually |
| 0:39.0 | a woman. This is a fellow writer. |
| 0:41.4 | And I said on the podcast that this was complicated by the fact that it turned out that he was |
| 0:47.8 | in a group of people and he kissed all of them in greeting. |
| 0:51.2 | After I said this on the cheek, right? |
| 0:53.6 | I believe on the cheek. |
| 0:55.6 | And after I said this, some people asked where that detail was from. |
| 1:00.2 | And I couldn't remember and I looked it up and I couldn't find anything. |
| 1:02.9 | Nothing had been published about this. |
| 1:04.2 | And I thought like, did I hear this on a podcast? |
| 1:06.1 | Did I dream this? |
| 1:07.1 | I don't think that I made it up. |
| 1:08.1 | Like where did this information come from? |
| 1:10.1 | So I mentioned that on the show last week. |
| 1:11.9 | I got a text from a friend of the pod yesterday. |
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