But you see, this is where it gets complicated.
He went to court to suppress images that were “characterized” by NOTW as Nazi-themed, and were never intended to see the light of day.
I have a brother, an immediate relation by blood, who regularly spouts thinly-veiled racist crap about African-Americans and President Obama in mixed company. I thoroughly loathe him and his ideals, and have disowned him.
Due to the question of the links to Mosley’s father’s past – does the fact that I have dated a couple of African-American women necessarily have to have any specific relation to my issues with my brother, whether seemingly submissively sympathetic or apologist? I think not. I cared for these women outright, not due to some suppressed guilt or obsession with their culture.
If it’s simply an issue of “face value” images, why aren’t films like The Night Porter or Salo (the 120 Days of Sodom) still banned?
What about adult couples who engage in Teacher/Student or Parent/Child sex play? Does this necessarily make them pedophiles? They are not actively engaging in pedophilia, so how is it our place to say they are pedophiles without explicit evidence? Does this mean because Mosley was engaged in sex play that impersonated Nazi incarceration (again, never intended for public consumption), he truly believed in what the Nazis stood for? We may never know.
I’m not passing a verdict on whether Mosley is guilty or not. I’m simply saying that we’re often as bad, and need to stop with the “sanctimonious” act that we internet sleuths seem so bent on portraying, because we’re heading into the territory of thoughtcrime.
