SNP responds to our concern about Dr Colin Morrison

And , like Ash Sarkar, she is another who has the luxury of spouting that she was a Communist/ Marxist/ whatever , knowing she'll either (a) never be tested as to what living under such a regime would be like or (b) if it were to happen would have her nose in the trough at the top table.

Yes it is. Now I know I’m losing the plot. I could blame baby brain but it’s 20 years too late. Now I can go and read the stranger again.

‘In the 1970s number of famous thinkers and writers argued that the age of consent was about young people’s right to a sexual life...’

Colin doesn’t say anything about the age of consent but this is basically the rest of his argument.

I do not understand their failure to anticipate what this might be used to legitimise and the civil liberties wash that it gave to CSA and CSE.

Yeah, it’s the reason I refuse to read Satre any more either, much as I loved the stranger. I know this makes me as bad as the TRA for not separating the author from the work, but it’s just me,

Anyone can quote anyone. It depends what argument they use the quote to make. This guy is using Foucault to argue for more extensive ‘sex education’ for younger people, including (particularly) disabled people. He regards this as a ‘sexual right’. The language is in some respects ambiguous but I find the thesis as a whole very concerning.

Wow I didn’t know that Crcohetmonster

She signed the letter by Foucault advocating for the abolition of the age of consent laws. So she is just as pro pedophile as he is.

I have no problem quoting Foucault on certain subjects, but certainly not child safeguarding! Urgh

Think the point here is that the protection of children from premature exposure to sex is definitely part of a conservative agenda, but it should be part of every person’s agenda. To disregard concerns because the person communicating them is conservative is to muddle the issue.

I’ve read some of the thesis and the quotes are accurate.

You can find the thesis online. There’s a link in the Scottish Daily Express article.

Pluvia

If Donald Trump pointed out a fatal flaw on a plane you were about to board, that once pointed out was clear for all to see, would you ignore him and get on the plane?

(That doesn’t mean I’m confident this is accurate. But it is a serious allegation nevertheless.)

So suddenly we should ignore the appointment of someone who, based on his own PhD or other writings, seems to be pro-paedophilia to the body writing sex and relationship education in school - because we dislike the person who raised this?

WTF!

‘The Scottish Family Party website raised a number of red flags, so for the time being I'm not going to support anything they raise. If and when a feminist safeguarding expert reads that PhD and expresses concern, then I may question the appointment of Colin Morrison. Until then, I'd suggest we all walk around this with a peg on our noses.’

What? Put a peg on my nose and ignore paedophiles designing kids’ sex education?

No.

I don’t have to support him to understand that what he is saying is immediately concerning.

Isn’t that why we’re in this entire mess? People ignoring red flags because of who is waving them?

I see the OP hasn't come back. And they appear to be a one-post poster.
I think there's a bad whiff here.

The Scottish Family Party website raised a number of red flags, so for the time being I'm not going to support anything they raise. If and when a feminist safeguarding expert reads that PhD and expresses concern, then I may question the appointment of Colin Morrison. Until then, I'd suggest we all walk around this with a peg on our noses.

I didn't need Google to know the Scottish Family Party would be promoting the kind of socially conservative values I disagree with.

It would be wonderful if more socially liberal parties could stop behaving as if safeguarding is tool for oppressing paedophiles.

Until then we're stuck with incompatible allies.

It’s really depressing they have any support at all.

What a bloody shower ! More 🚩 🚩 from the SNP/ Greens
We women in Scotland are fighting back hard

Are you a member of the Scottish Family Party, OP? Just wondering.

Do you know anything about the SFP — its background and values? I'm in Wales, so I'd never heard if it until I just googled.

Did he really quote Foucault? The same Foucault who advocated for the age of consent to be removed in France. I give him the sane respect I would have for anyone quoting Simone de Beuvoir or Judith Butler. That’s none

He clearly is advocating for children to have “sexual rights”. And the SNP (if this is all accurate) are fine with that. Fucking hell.

If you read that thesis and still employed this man for the job then you have announced your agenda. I haven't read the whole thesis but have scrolled through it and almost every paragraph I randomly picked to read in full is problematic

No one quoting Foucault to support their argument should be allowed anywhere near sex ed for children.

It's never ending.