Comment on I'm doing my part

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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…)”

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL there are 64 pedos in lemmy

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then beat the heirarchy to death first and go from there.

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  • lowleekun@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

    Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.

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