Cosby Sentence

[Rev. Rye]

You won't find one athiest referring to Harvey Milk as a 'scumbag' like they do with Bill Cosby.

Like I said, I'm using dbp's own logic.

I don't know who Harvey Milk is, but if he did what you said he did, he's a scumbag and a piece of shit.

So is Bill Cosby.

Happy?

Who’s Harvey Milk? He’s the first successful openly gay politician, being elected to the San Francisco board of Supervisors in 1977, assassinated the next year, and canonized by popular acclamation by the gay community, and eventually, the left.

The allegations, well, an account of a relationship he had in his thirties with a runaway of about 16, are detailed here:

https://halfabridge.wordpress.com/2011/0...-molester/

I could say It’s not questionable, at the very least, but I would be lying my ass off. I’d probably have to read The Mayor of Castro Street for more information, and I doubt we’re going to get more info about it (outside of people with an axe to grind either defaming the left in any way they can or by equating homosexuality with pederasty).

I’m not even going to pretend I know enough about this situation to make a judgment on whether it was right or wrong. At the very least, even barring the fact that even consensual homosexuality over the age of consent was illegal in most states, the fact that he was shacking up with a 16 year old may have been legally actionable even if it was a girl. It’s possible this was a loving relationship, it’s possible this was exploitation. The point is, we need to be able to examine the relationship and see judge how good or bad this would have been. To go back to Bill Cosby, a lot of his career has been scrutinized and it seems that the allegations check out. Does the same shit hold for Harvey Milk? I dunno.

But, to be totally honest, Whether it’s a history-making city supervisor or a famous comedian, to erase their accomplishments on the basis of their questionable lives off-duty strikes me as, well, this: