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The full e-mail thread is at the bottom of this article, in an awfully-formatted little PDF viewer. I suggest full-screening.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...

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I read the full thread, and I didn't see anything that I would consider "defending rape". It seemed pretty clear that he thinks Epstein was a bad person and that what happened to Giuffre is not good. The closest thing to defending rape is him trying to give Minsky the benefit of the doubt (e.g. stating that Minksky may not have known Giuffre's age or situation, and IIRC in her deposition she was careful to avoid saying whether or not she actually had sex with Minsky, only that Epstein wanted her to).

See page 7, where he argues that sex with a minor should not be considered rape.

Are sexually mature underage people prepubescent children now? It's ridiculous that people continue to willfully conflate the two just because they want to continue to have the moral high ground.

Because it is not the definition of rape.

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