https://firstthings.com/a-loving-ambivalence/#:~:text=The%20settlers%20abandoned%20Las%20Casas,blamed%20for%20the%20rising%20tensions. A Loving Ambivalence HELEN ANDREWS OCTOBER 8, 2018 SHARE ARTICLE T he Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish Conquest. For six days straight, two men debated the morality of Spain’s treatment of the Indians in the New World. On one side was Bartolomé de las Casas, age sixty-five, then at the climax of a lifetime of humanitarian advocacy on behalf of the Indians. On the other was Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, former history tutor to the heir to the throne and a staunch defender of the conquistadors. Judging their arguments was a panel of Spain’s most distinguished minds, and behind them loomed the figure of Charles V, ruler of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. The emperor had put a moratorium on all new expeditions in America while the morality of the conquest was being settled. Whether that ...
The Broad Appeal Of Critical Pedo Theory The Left is eager to embrace this idea for its own cynical ends Scott Greer Feb 24, 2026
Critical Pedo Theory https://www.highly-respected.com/p/the-broad-appeal-of-critical-pedo?utm_source=publication-search The Broad Appeal Of Critical Pedo Theory The Left is eager to embrace this idea for its own cynical ends Scott Greer Feb 24, 2026 Last year, I introduced “ Critical Pedo Theory ” to the marketplace of ideas. I defined it as the Right’s answer to Critical Race Theory, which imagines America as beset with systemic racism. CPT, on the other hand, imagines: that the world is ruled by a pedophile cabal and “systemic pedophilia” is inherent to the current order. These elite pedos are evil by nature, which is why they use space lasers to cause forest fires and wield their weather machine against red states. The Right found it useful to counter the Left’s racism accusations. The only thing worse than a racist in American society is a pedophile, so conservatives saw fit to label their enemies as such. It also affirmed the Right’s conspiratorial populism and hostility towards t...