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StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I monitor far-right groups pretty intensively and a good chunk of Paedophile Hunters are key organisers of said groups.

Its also not uncommon for far-right groups to be family operations where the adults will groom their teenage children into organizing and encourage their children to date other, often older, fascist organisers.

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TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Look at how much conspiracy content especially after 2016 focused on pedophilia. A lot of it. That carried over into this

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FermionWrangler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Unsurprising as most of the “pedophile hunters” are extremist by nature, so it makes sense why they would also subscribe to extremist ideologies like Nazism and queerphobia.

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