Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• uienia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not it. The right will lie about anything. If we change our beliefs to prevent the right from lying about us we would never have to stop changing our beliefs.

  This is more about right wing militias hunting lqtb+ people under the guise of pedophilia.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, I think this is it. This is the media doing what media does

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Solid argument 10/10 on the gymnastics routine.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Poorly regulated pedo hunters that can end up ruining genuine law enforcement efforts at catching pedos aren’t good.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually Leo don’t do shit about pedophelia, because it usually involves powerful people

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  • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The bigger problem is that genuine law enforcement efforts are discouraged from actually catching pedophiles because they often end up being constituents of those same cops, either politically or socially. It’s either a priest, a super PAC donor, or another cop on the other end of that investigation.

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  • ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Genuine law enforcement efforts?

    Like their efforts to protect rapists? Or the genuine efforts to vote for a rapist and pedo for POTUS? And their genuine effort to provide cover for their pastor pedo?

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• Kbibble@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Perhaps it’s best to make the distinction that this is creating a new type of predator, Violence Predators. Because that’s what the problem is. Right now they are going after the targets no one cares about, when they run low on those targets, either because the need for “content/violence” outpaces the supply of easy targets, they will find new ones while using the old label to mask what they are doing.

  So make that distinction, because it’s not about the people hunting pedophiles, it’s about the people hunting for violence. If there’s an overlap that doesn’t need to be the focus of the argument, because that’s the red herring.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems like a lot of these pedo hunters end up being pedos themselves

  Lots of projection going on here

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