• deathbird@mander.xyz
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    The obsession with pedos has long struck me as an excuse to generate violence against a target group by naming them as the most unambiguously vile people. It’s the core of blood libel, pizza gate, anti-drag laws, etc. I don’t think the turnaround of “you know who the real pedos are?” is all that effective. I think we need a revulsion to vigilantism that is even stronger than revulsion to any crime, so claims of crime or harm cannot be used to lend support to vigilante violence.

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      They used to be able to do it with gay people and be lauded by the public and had indifference to their violence by governments. They’ve just moved groups, same shitty people.

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      They’re pedophile hunters in the same way Saul Goodman is a criminal lawyer.

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        I feel like there should be some sort of obscure punctuation to make this clear: A hunter who is a pedophile or a hunter of pedophiles.
        Maybe a semi-comma or something.

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          semi-comma

          Would a semi-comma be a space in the same sense that a semicolon is just before colon?

          In 1644, in Richard Hodges’ The English Primrose, it is written:

          At a comma, stop a little; […] At a semi-colon, somewhat more; […] At a colon, a little more than the former; […] At a period, make a full stop;

          Source.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      it make sense to know how to detect and hunt pedos, one has to be a pedo themselves, they know how they think and operate.

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      Is there truth to this? I get projection, but I haven’t heard anything about this before

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        I mean in this group they were talking about not only beating someone but shoving a dildo in their ass. I think they want to commit sex crimes.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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        Anecdotal evidence based on past witch hunts by the right like gay panic, adultery/porn problems - panic based mobs are haunted by the people they hunt.

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          I believe the research suggests that homophobes (to give one example) are no more likely to be homosexual than the average population. … though not much less either.

          Just because some are projecting doesn’t mean all/most of them are.

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          Normal people without the expertise don’t go around playing vigilante.

          I get it if their close relative or friend was abused/murdered and then they go on to enact their vengence against criminals, but normal people aren’t gonna have the motivation to do it, especislly not hanging out in online chatrooms with creepy unsettling vibes, like how the f would you even sleep at night, I got creeped out reading at SCP, how do you hang out in a pedo chatroom regularly and not feel disgusted by it? The only people I can think of that would voluntarily “hunt pedofiles” are those that are comfortable with being around pedophiles (like hanging out in those chatrooms), and I suspect many of these are probably pedophiles themselves.

          My point is: unless you are law enforcement, a trained private investigator, know someone close that was abused/murdered, or otherwise authorized by an authority to do such investigations; everyone else doing “pedophile hunting” is likely a pedophila themselves.

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    Oh NO! Once they hear about how Jeffrey Epstein’s BEST FRIEND is Disappearing CHILDREN using ICE while PROTECTING the World’s most POWERFUL Pedophiles they’re going to GO Crazy!

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    Vigilantes are pretty much always odd in applying their “justice”.

    Which is why we have police, y’know

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      The most vile among them are at best ambivalent towards Trump. They’ll say he’s part of the same [Jewish/communist] cabal as the rest of the globalist NWO government and would be glad to put him to the torch as long as they get to put everyone else to the torch. He doesn’t go far enough quick enough, basically.