:kombucha-disgust: Last time I checked most pedos end up being hyper-religious conservatives or libertarians. Am I wrong?
Seems like chuds are projecting yet again. Imagine being the side of underage anime avatars and having the balls to accuse the left of "grooming"
The Pizza Gate, then Q Anon adjacent movement turned into "save the children" from trafficking, which is an ostensibly good cause except that they don't seek out actual traffickers or predators, they merely weaponize the accusations against their political and cultural opponents. Who could disagree with stopping child abuse after all, it's a powerful rhetorical bludgeon when people aren't really following what's going on. Epstein stuff definitely added fuel to the fire too
I don't think you should underestimate how much Covid has united cranks and reactionaries of all sorts against the corrupt and incompetent Democrats and the liberal and sadly progressive signifiers they hide behind. Formerly apolitical young people have been swept up in it, anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine, Q-anon, anti-groomer, homophobia, transphobia is all at a fever pitch and forming a political coalition.
Their narrative is that the liberals are making all the kids trans and/or gay to sexually abuse and traffic them, hence the "grooming" accusations. Like you say, most predators and abusers are on the right and in power, whereas actual progressives have basically no power whatsoever.
Annoyingly there’s a key part they’re right about: There is a cabal of rich elite pedophiles that are in large part responsible for our collective misery. They’re just (somewhat intentionally) wrong about the who, where, and why, and instead of blaming the actual rich elite pedophiles they mostly defend those people and go after LGBTQ+ people instead.
It’s almost like this is a strategy fascists have used to justify mass murder in the past and they’re doing it again… :thinking-about-it:
And they will use things like teachers acknowledging a kid's pronouns or drag queens reading books to kids as evidence of this.