• Ideology [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I have a bad feeling that the "groomer" campaign is going to go way better than the "well we tried" campaign.

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Conservatives have taken to calling lgbt people "groomers". It's like QAnon pedo conspiracies but applied to regular people.

        • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          That shit again? God, how many times do they have to be proven wrong before that stereotype dies? Aren't pedos disproportionately rich, straight, religious white dudes?

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Pretty much yeah and especially among GOP members and their family/friends (i.e. exploitative pedophilia and pedophilia involving many minors is common among wealthy and usually white individuals).

            • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              I have colleagues who have gotten accused of "grooming" for signing emails to students with their first names. Parent said it was "suspiciously familiar."

              • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Honestly would love if we started turning that back on people with straight faced questions of "oh so for you any form of kindness or sympathy is how you extract sexual favors from those you love!?" and "so the only reason you've ever been kind or familiar with anyone is because you want to fuck them". Just start and go fucking wilding on these fucking freaks with "no you are the freak because you are the one wanting sexual favors for kindness!".

                • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yeah, this was basically my first thought as well. Way to tell on yourself about the fact that you're unwilling to show any interpersonal warmth to someone you're not trying to fuck.

          • bombshell [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            "Libs of TikTok" has unfortunately done a lot of damage with those videos scraped from TikTok of well-meaning people who want to educate children in sexuality and queer theory from a young age, so they'll grow up having a choice of gender identities and sexualities. To the untrained eye it looks like pedophiles grooming children, yet it is anything but.