Conservative host Megyn Kelly suggested that she did not initially believe Jeffrey Epstein was an "actual pedophile" because he reportedly victimized girls aged 15 and older.Kelly spoke to journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon about Epstein on Wednesday after Democrats released emails suggesting President D...
  • KnitWit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?

    She should not be able to walk down the street without constant reminder of making this statement about victims of sex trafficking. Absolute monster of a person.

    • Semester3383@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Eh. Mostly right. Given that pedophilia is, by definition, sexual attraction to prepubescent children, and given that any sexual contact with a prepubescent child is sexual assault, a pedophile sexually assaulting a child is probably about sexual attraction. But not necessarily.

      But yeah, most child molesters aren’t pedophiles per se, but are assaulting children because they’re vulnerable. I don’t think that we can make any absolute claims about most pedos not assaulting children, simply because we don’t have a good grasp on how many people are pedos. I’ve heard that up to 25% of men (!!!) might have some level of sexual attraction to children, which is disturbing as fuck. (And no, I couldn’t give you a citation for that, I’m sorry. Just a weird claim that stuck in my head.)

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It is so predictable that conservatives would end up in “Pedophilia isn’t that bad” once it became undeniable that Great Leader raped little girls.

    • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s a few pedos in every group, also pedo haters. JD Delay is not a Trumper but he’s conservative and always advocates for the woodchipper for pedophiles, but he’s been mostly pointing out pedophiles on the left. That said, he would advocate the woodchipper for any and all of them. His merch includes "“Make Pedophiles Scared Again” shirts and “Woodchipper for President '28” hats.

    • droopy4096@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      funny that QAnon stuff circled around Dems having pedo-leanings and that was an OUTRAGE yet now it turns out to be OK, Humane even… wtf? Their morals exist only to stick it to anyone opposing them and they evaporate the second one of their own is caught doing exact thing

        • someguy3@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I read somewhere that people like conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense that they know secret information that others don’t know.

            • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 months ago

              There is also a kind of reverse virtue signaling to each other about how “edgy” they are when it comes to being steeped in/buying into what they think is insider knowledge…

              For example, the ones that claim they are flat-earthers - I honestly think many of them might not really believe it, but use it as a way to play the kid skipping science class and smoking out behind the school, basically as a way to raise up their middle finger to annoy the people they think are just being schoolmarms: “you’re not going to tell ME what to believe, I did my own research!”

              The reality is, anyone they think of as a schoolmarm (“normie”) just mostly would rather ignore these asshats, and just roll our eyes at their juvenile and backward ways. Sadly, what these idiots do in large groups ends up harming everyone - e.g., not vaccinating, being terrible at reasoning skills, basic numeracy and literacy, while at the same time being able to vote for the Republicans.

            • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Yep, this pretty much nails it.

              The conspiracy makes them feel a sense of importance that they can’t get in any other aspects of their lives. It is sad, these people cause real harm to those around them with these fantasy worlds they buy into.

              Telling them they are wrong, often just feeds the delusion; because you don’t know the secrete, this makes them feel more of the same, feeding the conspiracy further.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      But they’re still probably gonna push to prosecute lgbtq people as pedophiles. They should at least have to pretend to be consistent.

  • zigglesbarlow@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    I got banned from reddit for commenting “woodchipper” on this article next to posts openly supporting violence against young girls. Pretty cool platform to be thrown out of.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    So trafficking is ok if they have pubes? What a heinous piece of work this crank is.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    It’s only paedophilia if it comes from the pedophile region of Alabama. Otherwise it’s just sparkling ephebophilia.