I've been trying to impart this to people for so long but they're not having it. They want the most fantastical, sensationalist Liam Neeson movie version of events.
I sincerely doubt billionaires, including Epstein, were keeping children in cages. I doubt there was much violence involved. Billionaires don't have to use that kind of coercion on kids. What Epstein did was promise modeling jobs and lucrative connections. They used social pressure and the promise of wealth, fame, and a career. Most people I've met seem uncomfortable to admit those factors are just as coercive as direct violence.
Most people would rather believe billionaires have squads of goons in balaclavas picking kids out of Wal-Mart parking lots.
I think being rich makes people less empathetic and less likely to be charged for any crimes, but I kind of hate the obsession with RICH = PEDOPHILE thoughts nowadays, both on the left and qanon areas. As someone who was sexually abused as a child by many different people, I feel it ends up distracting from the ways poverty enables abuse, how families/friends are most likely to abuse you, etc etc. Not that both things cannot be talked about at once, but that people tend to focus on rich people as abusers and never the fact that abuse is about power, regardless of how much money you have. I don't know if this makes any sense mostly just a rant I have been thinking on.
I agree with what you're saying- the idea that 'insert group here' are automatically evil is super lame. I prefer judging these lunatics on their actions, of which there's much evidence they are awful.
And as you said, sexual abuse is unfortunately class-less.
I've been trying to impart this to people for so long but they're not having it. They want the most fantastical, sensationalist Liam Neeson movie version of events.
I sincerely doubt billionaires, including Epstein, were keeping children in cages. I doubt there was much violence involved. Billionaires don't have to use that kind of coercion on kids. What Epstein did was promise modeling jobs and lucrative connections. They used social pressure and the promise of wealth, fame, and a career. Most people I've met seem uncomfortable to admit those factors are just as coercive as direct violence.
Most people would rather believe billionaires have squads of goons in balaclavas picking kids out of Wal-Mart parking lots.
I think being rich makes people less empathetic and less likely to be charged for any crimes, but I kind of hate the obsession with RICH = PEDOPHILE thoughts nowadays, both on the left and qanon areas. As someone who was sexually abused as a child by many different people, I feel it ends up distracting from the ways poverty enables abuse, how families/friends are most likely to abuse you, etc etc. Not that both things cannot be talked about at once, but that people tend to focus on rich people as abusers and never the fact that abuse is about power, regardless of how much money you have. I don't know if this makes any sense mostly just a rant I have been thinking on.
Hope you're going ok <3.
I agree with what you're saying- the idea that 'insert group here' are automatically evil is super lame. I prefer judging these lunatics on their actions, of which there's much evidence they are awful. And as you said, sexual abuse is unfortunately class-less.
thank you, i’m doing alright<33! i appreciate that
Agreed. Organized abuse (organized done intentionally by multiple parties) exists in all social classes.
This is how people view health insurance companies too -- cabals of shadowy boards laughing over denying cancer treatment to uninsured children.
It's just a bunch of PMC's all trying to make sure their own lines go up so their boss doesn't bitch at them the next day.