Sure, fucking sure… kept staring at the screen after i put the three dots and so much was going through my head to write about this but all that was left after about 30 mins of staring at the screen was what’s the point, it’s like trying to put out a wildfire with a dry dish rag.
For those looking for a source that doesn’t require a subscription: https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-with-pedophiles-for-30-years/a-53814208
Behind the Bastards also did a great series on it
“The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do.”
This could have been a 30 minute conversation.
I recognize that my inability to listen to random people yap is my own problem, but get to the point.If that’s a problem for you then Behind the Bastards is not for you.
I’d say that the aim of the podcast is not to document the events in question (that information could always be found elsewhere) but to document the back story behind the events in detail.
That not necessarily the problem—I’m the type to watch the multi-hour retrospectives about videogames—the problem is all the off-topic chitchat.
I love Behind the Bastards, actually pretty much anything by Robert Evans, but I stopped listening for this exact reason.
Wow. This continued until at least 2003.
just another rational and well thought out day in germany!
It’s almost the worst thing Germans did.
Wish there was a copy of that grant proposal.
Man, this is even worse than trying to teach dolphins english using acid and hand jobs
that was too specific
That was a wild read!
It’s funny because everyone knows dolphins prefer the romance languages.
Oh lawd they gave the murder machines lysergic
lysergic
I joke about “lysdexic” so often my brain read that as “dyslexia” at first. heh
No hablo inglés.
Es tut mir leid, ich spreche kein Englisch.
Je ne parle pas anglais.
मैं अंग्रेज़ी नहीं बोलता।
Извините, я не говорю по‑английски.
I’m surprised no one… took this to court? I’m sure this would have been against laws even back then
From the source I linked in my other coment:
By the time his victims came forward, the statute of limitations for his actions had expired.
I don’t know how long it would have been back then, but today, sexual assault of a minor has a maximum prison sentence of more than ten years but less than life, so the statute of limitations is 20 years.
What the fucking fuck
pedophiles
the government
Name a more iconic duo.
Conservatives and projection
Germany and Bad decisions
There are a lot of decent people working for the government that do an amazing job given the constraints they are put under.
But thank you for your nuanced take, I guess?
I remember when I first swapped to Lemmy nuanced discussions were numerous, been seeing a lot of relatively new accounts stirring up shit and doing the classic “I’m gonna make them look so stupid huehuehue”
You’re right though, despite the fact there are a lot of sociopaths and psychopaths in government positions, there are a lot of social workers and general day to day folks that are normal or go above and beyond to try and help their community with what little power they have.
Kentler believed pedophiles could make acceptable foster parents, and that any sexual contact would be relatively harmless if it were not forced.
How’s that for a nuanced take
Fun fact: That was almost exactly the time frame where the Berlin Senate was lead by the conservative CDU (who, within the same time frame, never got tired of slandering their Green opposition as the “pedophile party”)
And yet people keep voting for them.
Like many of his contemporaries, Kentler came to believe that sexual repression was key to understanding the Fascist consciousness.
Hm…
This started in the 1960s.
I figured it was something from hundreds of years ago.
Aight later y’all
