Bloomberg hit-piece targeting anti-child-trafficking film âSound of Freedomâ was penned by LGBT activist who opposed stigmatizing pedophiles
Joseph Mackinnon â The Blaze July 17, 2023
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The author of Bloombergâs Saturday smear of the massively successful anti-child-trafficking film âSound of Freedomâ was penned by a radical LGBT activist who has argued in favor of destigmatizing pedophilia.
Noah Berlatskyâs apparent eagerness to brand the filmâs popularity as âominousâ has prompted others online to both consider his possible motivations and review his past writ on the subject of pedophilia.
The critique
In his July 15 Bloomberg article, entitled âQAnon and âSound of Freedomâ Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes,â which has since been republished by the Washington Post, Berlatsky suggested that the film âhas been embraced by the far right and Christiansâ in part because the âfar right is motivated by myths of corrupted innocence and corruption avenged.â
Berlatsky rehashed claims advanced in a similar hit-piece by a senior writer at Rolling Stone, intimating that the filmâs presentation of trafficking is âmisleading.â
As if to reassure, Berlatsky claimed that the majority of children sexually trafficked are actually between the ages of 15 and 17, adding that âin 41% of the cases, a family member was involved. Behind those numbers are often stories of addiction, disowned LGBTQ+ people and trading sex on the street to survive.â
âThatâs why experts worry that Sound of Freedomâs stranger danger narrative, and the way it centers on victims who are as innocent and as sympathetic as possible, may make it more difficult to organize help for less perfect victims when they are targeted by those close to them,â he continued.
Just as the depiction of victims as innocent or sympathetic are allegedly problematic, so too are the Hollywood depictions of good and bad â where the âbad guys are unremittingly evil, and the good guys are sensitive and unfailingly virtuous.â
âIs Sound of Freedom a QAnon dog whistle, or is it just another thriller? The answer is that â whatever the filmmakerâs intentions â it functions as both,â wrote Berlatsky. âThese narratives do little to help victims. But they can create coalitions of feeling, disgust and righteous rage that connect conservative conspiracy theorists with the mainstream. Thatâs why Trumpâs screening it. And thatâs why its popularity is ominous.â
The critic
Noah Berlatsky of the âEverything Is Horribleâ Substack is a prolific writer of LGBT agitprop and leftist screeds, often finding âfascismâ lurking behind opinions he doesnât like.
TheBlaze previously reported that Berlatsky made a fuss earlier this year about his âqueer familyâ after his wife came out as âbisexual and nonbinaryâ and his son determined that he was a lesbian transgender.
In addition to writing âWonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism,â advocating for pandemic school shutdowns, and smearing then-student Nick Sandmann in 2019, Berlatsky has written a number of articles for the Protasia Foundation.
The Protasia Foundation touts itself as a âchild protection organizationâ that allegedly seeks novel ways of curbing child sexual abuse, while admittedly working with pedophiles. It also differentiates on its website between âpedophileâ and âminor-attracted person,â claiming that ânot everyone who experiences attractions to minors is a pedophile.â
The organizationâs values include âsex positivityâ and âkink awareness.â
In a Dec. 13, 2021, article for Protasia, Berlatsky argued that âtreating pedophiles as monsters who are chiefly responsible for abuse actually makes it more difficult to recognize and combat [child sexual abuse].â
âStigmatizing pedophiles or MAPs makes it harder for pedophiles to seek help, which puts children at risk. And it distracts our attention from the most prevalent forms of child abuse and child sexual abuse, which also puts children at risk,â wrote Berlatsky. âAs long as we are focused on stigmatizing pedophiles, we will fail to sufficiently recognize and condemn the actions which harm children.â
In an April 4, 2021, article, Berlatsky compares the historic curtailment of womenâs voting rights to prohibitions now on childrenâs ability to do certain things, claiming, âIf we refuse to let young people advocate for themselves, or refuse to grant them bodily autonomy, it is not because there is something wrong with their decision-making capacity. Itâs because there is something wrong with ours.â
Writing for the blog LiberalCurrents in 2021, Berlatsky denounced the âtyranny of parentsâ and suggested ways the state can help âliberate childrenâ from parental care.
In a July 2021 interview, he discussed one feministâs exposure to pornography at the age of eight and characterized it as a âpositive experience.â
Andy NgĂ´, senior editor at the Post Millennial, noted that in 2017, Berlatsky wrote, âPedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group. Certain people get designated as deviants, people hate them.â
âSound of Freedom,â the popularity of which Berlatsky characterized as âominous,â has demonstrated that Americans still donât mind the âstigmatizationâ of pedophiles. After all, the film has sold over 7 million tickets, exceeding 300% of Angel Studiosâ stated goal. It has a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with well over 10,000 verified ratings.
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