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?

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    2 years ago

    Both and neither.

    I think pedophilia is definitely more widespread than some people might think. I think there are some groups of elite's and other connected pedos engaging in sexual abuse of children, on top of just normal not powerful people also abusing children. Epstein, the Catholic Church, there's all sorts of proven, large networks.

    I also think this (and the trans obsession) is basically the latest "satanic panic". Matt Christmas in the Hell on Earth podcast made a point about witch burnings in Scotland during and after the English Civil War that I think there are a lot of parallels to. IIRC, he described the witch trials as the Scottish being unable to psychologically deal with the collapse of the Scottish Kirk and loss to the English and looking for someone to blame that I think have some interesting parallels.

    So I would say don't go crazy about trying to resolve the contradictions. The threats are both real and imagined.