We have courts instead of mob justice in civilized societies for good reasons. One of those reasons is that mobs rarely follow due process. Once you create a class of people it is okay to enact mob violence against, all you need to do is start rumors to take out the anyone you don’t like. People of particular political persuasions. People of particular sexualities. People of particular races. “Oh Jim? Yeah, I heard he’s a pedo - lets run him out of town! (plus then he wont be able to open that donut shop that would have competed with mine…)”
Pedophiles should be prosecuted in a court of law.
Also, The Bad Place’s shitposting used this as an angle to recruit dummies into the right. Start with a popular statement and then link pedos to LGBT people etc. How subtle the rhetoric is varies, it frequently wasn’t very.
Letting Lemmy develop the same self-righteous and performative circle jerk just isn’t a great idea… Not that’s it stopped any of the other circle jerking.
ANYWHERE with several thousand users will statistically have more pedos than that. It is something that afflicts around 1-5 percent of the population. Just imagine the person most closest to you being a non offending pedo. They might be, no way to find out.
We managed to call it CSAM, why not call the people Childabusers if thats what we call out? After all there are enough people abusing children sexually without having pedophilia.
Who are these 64 people downvoting
We have courts instead of mob justice in civilized societies for good reasons. One of those reasons is that mobs rarely follow due process. Once you create a class of people it is okay to enact mob violence against, all you need to do is start rumors to take out the anyone you don’t like. People of particular political persuasions. People of particular sexualities. People of particular races. “Oh Jim? Yeah, I heard he’s a pedo - lets run him out of town! (plus then he wont be able to open that donut shop that would have competed with mine…)”
TIL there are 64 pedos in lemmy
Pedophiles should be prosecuted in a court of law.
Also, The Bad Place’s shitposting used this as an angle to recruit dummies into the right. Start with a popular statement and then link pedos to LGBT people etc. How subtle the rhetoric is varies, it frequently wasn’t very.
Letting Lemmy develop the same self-righteous and performative circle jerk just isn’t a great idea… Not that’s it stopped any of the other circle jerking.
So, after the first line i totally agree with you
But about that girst line: a lot of pedophiles either are, or are above, the law. So they can’t be meaningfulky prosecuted.
Then beat the heirarchy to death first and go from there.
That is the law though. Law is hierarchy, hierarchy is law.
You take the hierarchy and out; it becomes unrecognizable, it becomes something else.
ANYWHERE with several thousand users will statistically have more pedos than that. It is something that afflicts around 1-5 percent of the population. Just imagine the person most closest to you being a non offending pedo. They might be, no way to find out.
We managed to call it CSAM, why not call the people Childabusers if thats what we call out? After all there are enough people abusing children sexually without having pedophilia.
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