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

• 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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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, if they ask for consent and receive it, then not a crime still

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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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