Languages evolve in weird ways. Pedophile comes from “pedo” child and “phile” for love. It could just be a mother or father, someone who loves children. But, it has been used to describe people who love children, but in the wrong way. Similarly, homophobe has been used for people who hate gays, but the “phobe” part is about fear not hate. Also, “homo” isn’t necessarily homosexual, it could be homogeniety. Homophobes could be people who are afraid of people of their own race, but instead we’ve decided it’s the term to use for people who hate or are angry at homosexuality.
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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I just want to say that our language use has now been so poisoned by a child predator being called “pedophiles” because “pedo” is greek for child that we attribute just the word to a child predator. IMO pedofile is a bad word because there is zero love involved, they are child predators.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 days ago
It’s a more inclusive term because “child predator” and “child rapist” all require since verifiable action on the person’s part. It’s a person who is sexually attracted to children and just looks at like AI generated CSM not audio a pedophile, despite not actually directly harming children?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
CSM
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Why we dragging the Terminator into this?
blinfabian@feddit.nl 2 days ago
the term “child rapist” is also fair