"Keep children safe from David Letterman's mouth! He will rape them with his mouth! He is a child abuser; he is a verbal pedophile! Wake up!"—One of the protestors outside David Letterman's studio last night, who demonstrates her outrage at rape jokes by minimizing the gravity of sexual assault, without a trace of irony.
And that would be exactly the sort of thing that makes people question the veracity of conservatives' claims that this is about more than cynical partisanship. The primary reason to object to a rape joke is because it normalizes rape and obscures its brutality, but, of course, equating a rape joke with the actual rape of a child does precisely the same thing.
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