Former Texas Democratic Congressional candidate Dayton Steele has sparked worldwide condemnation after suggesting internment of ‘white supremacists’ and that their children be ‘molested’ and ‘starved’. Doubtless Steele did not mean it literally and intended for her political opponents to put themselves in the place of refugees and their children, but such excuses do not make her vile words acceptable. Whilst it is inevitable her crass comments will be condemned by many, it is important to understand the way that some elements of the left make light of child rape and worse, the many sinister groups on the left which engage in more serious and sustained attempts to legitimise paedophilia.
On 16 August 2019 Dayton Steele posted the following on Twitter (archive) – “What if we rounded up all suspected white domestic supremacist terrorists and took their kids from them and put them in camps and molested and starved them? Just curious.”
It would by no means be the first time a vile follower of the left had called for children to be preyed on by paedophiles. In June 2018, Peter Fonda apologised for tweeting calling for Barron Trump to be taken from, “his mother’s arms and put in a cage with pedophiles” (archive).