Part 3: One more – really bad – emblem of progressive podcasts’ grotesque hate speech toward young people
Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| December 2025
On Tuesday, Saager Enjeti, the self-described “conservative” co-host on Tuesday’s Breaking Points podcast, declared that the “really sick” emails from Harvard University’s uber-economics professor Larry Summers showing “no moral standards,” seeking pedophilic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s advice on “exploiting his relationship” to win sex from a reluctant young female mentee, were “literally like teenage behavior.”
This is utterly appalling. If Breaking Points had any normal respect for stopping hate speech, Enjeti would be apologizing profusely to save his job. Hate is not acceptable simply because the group one attacks can’t fight back — some would consider that even more egregious, as evidenced by the Epstein case itself.
Yet, Enjeti got no pushback from co-host Krystal Ball. I can only assume that Enjeti and Ball must regard the teenagers they associate with in their personal lives as sick, depraved, exploitative sex criminals. They certainly couldn’t justify such bigotry with scientific research.
Summers, age 70, former Democratic U.S. Secretary of the Treasury serving President Bill Clinton (!), university president, and holder of a stellar Beltway-Eastern-elite resume, indeed was acting depraved, immoral, crude, pathetic, and criminal.
Not that Epstein wasn’t the ideal choice for such advice. At the time (March, 2019) of Summers’ buddy-buddy emails pleading for Epstein’s “wingman” counsel on how to exploit young women, Epstein’s own resume included a publicly known conviction for sex-trafficking middle-school girls and was continuing his depravities right up to his soon-to-arrive second arrest.
Summers’ execrable behavior was in no way “literally… teenage,” just as it was in no way “literally Jewish” (Summers’ ethnicity) or “literally Indian American” (Saager’s ethnicity) or “literally White suburban middle-aged” (Ball’s).
Imagine the enraged backlash if Enjeti had cited ethnicity rather than “teen” age as the demographic feature characterizing Summers’ and Epstein’s predations.
I worked with hundreds of teenagers over 15 years. What I saw is confirmed in studies, surveys, and statistics. Teenagers, like adults, act in all different ways – something media stereotypers can’t seem to get through their primitive, hate-driven cerebral cortexes.
Of course, there are small fractions of teens who are rapists and exploiters, just as there are fractions of every demographic group who use power and violence to leverage sexual advantage. The 17-year-old alpha richie cynically seducing an outcast 13 year-old, the billionaire “teen model” executive exploiting his older-male privilege to score middle-schoolers, the celebrity director and his casting couch, the 70-year-old topline professor forcing his institutional power on harassed mentees, the politician chasing interns… all are part of a long history of grotesque sexual predators wielding illegitimate personal power, not representatives of their demographic groups.
Why can’t the progressive brain, or the conservative brain on progressive podcasts, grasp this simple, scientific, egalitarian fact?
Note that Enjeti accords older ages individuality. He never stereotypes Epstein’s or Summers’ behaviors as typifying “old men.” To the contrary, he declared – even amid the large numbers of aging elites who participated in and/or continued associating with convicted pedophile Epstein – that it’s “weird” for older people to behave that way. Yet, he turns around and, citing the behavior of older men, mass-trashes all teenagers as depraved sex criminals. Whenever they and liberal-left colleagues don’t like an adult’s behavior, they transfer blame by calling it “juvenile,” “teenage,” etc.
It’s an irony that many men achieve pinnacles of power and prosperity in advanced age when (to paraphrase elder Kurt Vonnegut), “I look like an iguana.” But I think we can buck up and accept the compensating advantages without turning coercive.
You, Enjeti, are the sick one. Ball should be ashamed of her silence letting you get away with anti-youth hate speech day after day and indulging it herself. Why, progressives, do you hate young people – your staunch allies on the left – so relentlessly?