I'm not talking about queer people getting called groomers. I know why that's happening. I'm referring more to a more general fear of pedophilia instead of just repackaged homophobia.

I feel like I'm hearing about it like every other week. For instance, parent bloggers noticing that their engagement skyrockets when they post their kids eating hotdogs or in swimwear. Another example is an increasing trend of people on Pinterest creating walls and albums labelled "hot kids."

I know that elite freaks are all pedos, but is pedophilia an actually growing problem among regular people? It seems to me like when suburbanites freak out about any other thing like BLM or immigrants marching through and razing their communities. Or the crime freakout in the 70s/80s.

Am I being naive and we actually need to be on high alert?

  • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    This made me reflect on the other moral panics I lived through. DND, Pokemon, Harry Potter. They were all based on the pretense of protecting children from demonic forces.

    • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      All traceable back to the Satanic panics of the 80s 😎

      I saw some footage from that time, and man it boggles the mind how these trained psychologists just bought into this thing and primed their patients into making up stuff with leading questions. Like kids were talking about (spoiler just in case, but understand there was an FBI investigation and none of the allegations were found to have any basis in reality)

      spoiler

      being forced to watch ritualistic sacrifices of humans and pets, repeatedly forcibly impregnated, and then receiving multiple abortions by the age of 16-18, seeing their siblings being sacrificed

      And it also begged the question, if satanic rituals were so widespread back then, how come none of them were brought to justice or even caught. Like listening to these moral panic psychologists you'd think the whole USA was just one big satanic cult.