“You’d have to be pretty willfully ignorant not to realize that part of the revenues that went into your check on a weekly basis were derived, at least in part, from marketing for prostitution.”
Which included child sex trafficking.
Marketing for prostitution means pimping.
http://citypages.com/news/mike-lacey-backpagecom-and-the-mystery-of-the-5000-checks/396646721
You would have to be very willfully ignorant not to be able to figure this out for yourself, just by understanding the structure of Village Voice – Backpage.
Are some people around here being willfully ignorant? You betcha! Another word for being “willfully ignorant” would simply be, “apologist“.
a·pol·o·gist – a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial.
Synonyms: defender, supporter, upholder, advocate, proponent, exponent, propagandist, champion, campaigner.
Are there child sex trafficking apologists out there? You betcha! They are defenders and supporters of child sex slavery/trafficking.
I am not one of them. Profiting off of the misery of homeless children, that is as unholy as it gets.