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?

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    And now in the 20s, more children are expressing autonomy through the internet. You can’t control who your kid is in contact with anymore or what they’re reading.

    It's interesting that the way conservatives have latched onto this is by trying to dismantle libraries and public education. Like, phones seem like a much more obvious and direct "vector" for the Spooky Satanic Leftist Agenda or whatever, and yet they refuse to acknowledge it. Funny, considering how much those same groups of people like to complain about this and that new-fanged whatever.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Well it's important to recognize that the conservatives are just as addicted to social media as everyone else is. They can target TikTok for a ban because kids are the only ones using it - but the only legislation they might ever force onto Facebook will be to force them to unban everyone who got banned for racial slurs.