Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat

mcbenavides85@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re pedophile hunters in the same way Saul Goodman is a criminal lawyer.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s not just a criminal lawyer, he’s a criminal lawyer.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is there truth to this? I get projection, but I haven’t heard anything about this before

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anecdotal evidence based on past witch hunts by the right like gay panic, adultery/porn problems - panic based mobs are haunted by the people they hunt.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I believe the research suggests that homophobes (to give one example) are no more likely to be homosexual than the average population. … though not much less either.

      Just because some are projecting doesn’t mean all/most of them are.

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  • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean in this group they were talking about not only beating someone but shoving a dildo in their ass. I think they want to commit sex crimes.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair, but that doesn’t make them pedophiles specifically.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shoving a dildo up their ass after beating someone doesn’t constitute a crime, it’s their own ass. Unless they do it publicly, there might be laws about that

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      • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Of the person they were talking about beating

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen any evidence for it.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Normal people without the expertise don’t go around playing vigilante.

      I get it if their close relative or friend was abused/murdered and then they go on to enact their vengence against criminals, but normal people aren’t gonna have the motivation to do it, especislly not hanging out in online chatrooms with creepy unsettling vibes, like how the f would you even sleep at night, I got creeped out reading at SCP, the only people I can think of that would voluntarily “hunt pedofiles” are those that are comfortable with being around pedophiles (like hanging out in those chatrooms), and I suspect many of these are probably pedophiles themselves.

      My point is: unless you are law enforcement, a trained private investigator, know someone close that was abused/murdered, or otherwise authorized by an authority to do such investigations; everyone else doing “pedophile hunting” is likely a pedophila themselves.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it make sense to know how to detect and hunt pedos, one has to be a pedo themselves, they know how they think and operate.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To catch the criminal, you should think like the criminal (that photo with Russian drug control service people sniffing something).

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Knew some people like that, they liked to talk about how there are some “good ones”, who save young girls from poverty, and even marry them later on. Also they really were jealous of young boys who were molested by hot women, and did not bother pursuing their case.

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