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by dfxm12 on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:19PM
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Accusations of pedophilia are extremely commonplace on the right
Every accusation is an admission.
I don't know how anyone takes American (and probably other) conservatives seriously on this topic when they are constantly trying to block laws that will make it harder to marry children [0], [1], or defending the practice in general [2].
0 - https://apnews.com/article/child-marriage-west-virginia-bill...
1 - https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
2 - https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-lawmaker-defends-...
Child sex abuse is more common that it ever should be, but it is not the epidemic of child abuse that the right characterizes it to be. Accusations of pedophilia are extremely commonplace on the right, even when there is absolutely no evidence, largely because it is the most horrifying thing you can accuse another person of doing, and because the moral panic you can instill in your supporters if you convince them is a highly effective political weapon.
If anything, the people who scream about pedophila the loudest are the ones showing their apathy towards actual real-world child sex abuse, because they are doing so in bad faith, not to protect actual children, but to score political points through slander. If anything that helps obfuscate and enable child abusers, since the focus is now on conspiracy theories and targeted defamation.