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(CW: Child Abuse) Are we living through a moral panic about pedophilia? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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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?

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[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm being hyperbolic.

However, people in power have greater leverage to exploit children via their institutions, from Epstein to the Catholic church. It's really no wonder we associate the two because this is the kind of shit we hear about most.