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Re:The Balenciaga Controversy by PuppyTailWags on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:08PM (#33794667)
It's not whataboutism, it's pointing out that you're making some suspected wild trajectory of child abuse when actual child abuse currently exists in a widespread, normalized fashion.

There's no need to invent gay people clandestinely abusing children as if straight people don't openly abuse children already. Like I said, marrying underage children is legal, and it certainly isn't the lgbtq people that put that law there.

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Re:The Balenciaga Controversy by incrudible on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:09PM (#33795629)
We're entering not-so-subtle whataboutism territory here. Which culture has normalized child marriage? Certainly not mainstream American culture. Even if it's technically legal under certain circumstances, it's exceptionally rare.
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Re:The Balenciaga Controversy by PuppyTailWags on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:26AM (#33797309)
It's not just technically legal under certain circumstances. It's explicitly legal. Only 7 states enforce adult marriage, with thousands of child marriages occurring each year. This certainly occurs more often than that viral thing you were too grossed out to google, and frankly attributing online unsubstantiated rumors about lgbtq people, when literal child marriages are happening in the thousands among straight people, is frankly the whataboutism here.
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