So, all conservatives?
British conservatives no longer exist after Scruton hit the heavenly futon, all Conservatives care about these days are deregulating financial services and weakening labour laws. Environment, family, faith, justice, country, culture, buildings that don't look like shit, nah nah there's no need to do any actual conserving, just don't have kids and pay your taxes. That's all British values has left to defend, queueing and politeness
My essential response to this is that academia can reform itself, but the churches will keep on having rape clubs until acted upon by an outside force.
The essential nature of the environment that allows rape clubs to form is conservative, and that the right-wing fecundity rhetoric leads to far more legalized pedophilia than rogue academics and philosophers. The ideas of the latter have never been accepted when the spotlight is on them, but the former? "Well, better than them turning gay surely, eh boys?" to raucous laughter.
This is in essence the only thing I disagree with; academia is an institution like any other, and the recent examples in France, UK and Germany have demonstrably proven that the pedophile networks had absolutely no intention of reforming nor did their colleagues have any intention of actually dealing with them in a manner that wasn't supportive. The labour party and our academics number one priority with the child grooming gangs was always community cohesion and multiculturalism over law enforcement, and it continued to be so even after the Times went public. Not just academics, take a look at how the BBC closed ranks to cover up their own with the Savile, Gary Glitter cases e.t.c.
There is nothing magic about championing progressive causes that makes an institution immune to pedophiles, especially when there is evidence to the contrary - there are open pedophiles who have enjoyed and still continue to enjoy the favour of academia, like Harry Hay or Allen Ginsberg. Helmet Kentler was employed by the state an an expert witness regarding child abuse cases (of which he was proud to have observed all of the cases he testified in resulting in acquittals), was an open advocate of pedophilia who was given state funding and support to place children in the care of known pedophiles. What I am trying to show here is that academics who form the basis of Western disciplines like Ginsberg, Foucault, Derrida, Satre, Barthes de Beauvoir, Kentler and so on can openly endorse pedophilia, and still have not a single University disavow them.
Likewise it seems bizarre to keep to the partisan rhetoric when the two most recent scandals were labour-led and green party led pedophilia networks. Both labour party and green party are progressive, leftist parties. The ideas of the latter have been proven to have been accepted in the most recent scandal; and like Scriver before said, your argument defeats itself. If a General or a RW-politician or a priest deems fit to hide the fact that they are a pedophile from the rest of society, it is because they are scared of the consequences. If celebrated academics openly endorse pedophilia and run state-sanctioned pedophile networks
in the open, publishing in detail
their "research", then it is clear to anyone these people fear no judgement of opposing peers.
For all that Kentler and company are horrible, there's probably a few who think like him in every conservative church, boomer club, or government association because of the inherent right-wing nature of those institutions creating a space for them to fester. The things these scum think in public are bad enough, but when you manage to scratch the surface? It's nearly beyond belief.
I would like to point to my long track record of complaining about this exact phenomenon, in a desperate attempt to convince you this is not a case of "our pedos don't count." The existence of one does not disprove the other, the willingness to treat state-sanctioned pedophiles as "rogue" elements is however, a huge fucking problem
*EDIT
Yes the church has never been known to reform - oh wait.
Got a huge fucking chuckle out of me that did
Your assumption that academia is some powerhouse of self improvement is hopelessly inaccurate. And I'm a doctoral student.
Oh god the fucking dogma, I've had more balanced discussions with Maoist exchange students than an English student
I'll also note that I always believed right wing groups hated pedophilia. They are damaging to the double community - family (the real 'fecundity' in conservative ideology) and community.
Certainly, the only thing the UVF hated more than IRA scum was a kiddy fiddler.
But I suppose that goes to show you the nuance which is missing in your black and white, discriminative narrative of 'us vs. them'.
I would've thought the one thing that unified all conservative or RW or traditional or any other synonymous tag group across the world was known for, was a hatred of child abusers. I also just don't get the partisan us vs themenship, but I guess it's because we're not about to see a new civil war same way as the R VS B Americans are squaring up
To put my perspective into simple terms, it doesn't make sense to make it partisan, when it isn't for them. Liberal pedophile Cyril Smith was defended from prosecution by a senior Tory called Victor Montagu, who surprise surprise was a pedophile. How come they can close ranks, but normal people cannot?