I really don’t get it. So many people that are zealous about protecting kids have some really weird things to say about 12 year old boys being raped by a teacher 3x their age but hate trans people for “grooming kids”. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen these people say really, really questionable things about age of consent and find it perfectly fine to have sex with a 16 year old because it’s legal. Even if someone if someone is 60 and has sex with someone that young. Sneako, Matt Walsh, and even our president have said really weird shit.
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Know the phrase from Hamlet, ‘Thou dost protest too much’? I think this explains it, I’ve seen it time and time again.
My theory, people hate how they feel inside so they try to deflect any suspicion from themselves but by doing so, ironically puts the spotlight on them.
Same with any hate group, take homophobes for example, I bet the majority are closeted as has been proven many times. Looking at you JD Vance.
Edit: maybe not ‘hate themselves’ but rather are afraid of getting caught, and also, not my theory but Shakespeare’s lol
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The uncomfortable truth is just that there seems to be an unfortunate amount of pedophiles around. The stats of TCAP stings are insane
Projection, for one, and deflection of suspicion for another.
Right wing ideology in summary is just self-projection. You functionally stop being right-wing the moment you can agree “pedo” queers or zealous Muslims or violent black people also include pedo straights, zealous Christiansand extremely hyper-violent white people.
I am more right leaning.
It seems to be the hillbilly, hunting-loving, sports-loving, beer-loving type of Republicans are often pedophiles. I was a victim of one, my own stepdad for 10 years of my childhood, and all the men in his family were the same way- including his child who grew up to be one, and some of his friends are. my boyfriend works blue-collar jobs and we often come across a few pedophiles there as well. I don’t usually see it with the suit wearing, white collar, woman-hater, alpha male type of republicans (though it does happen).
But, there’s also a large amount of liberals who are pedophiles (look at all of Hollywood and famous youtubers). I live in a liberal college town and I’ve had to drop multiple friends, liberals, because they turned out to be pedophiles. also, at the jobs I work nearby there have been quite a few pedophiles. i’m talking at least five at every job.
And when I mean, pedophile, I mean hard-core proof, such as flirting with minors in front of my eyes, dating minors, and getting in trouble with the law for interacting with minors in such ways.
I don’t think it’s exactly a political thing, I think there’s just so many pedophiles in this world that it’s just now being brought to light the more it’s becoming frowned upon and recognized politically with both sides calling each other pedophiles.
Projection. That’s it, really.
Probably the same reason all the anti-LGBTQ+ people are also secretly huge fans of Grindr and have same sex secret affairs.
Projection.
Every accusation is a confession.
Anytime someone preaches “family values”, you know they are doing very sinister things in secret.
Tbh I’ve met and seen a pretty equal amount of people on both sides to the point that I don’t think the question should be “Why are so many ____ Pedophiles?” As much as it should be “why are there so many pedophiles?”
It boggles my mind how the majority of people see pedophilia as a sin worthy of death and literally unforgivable while there’s a ton of people who see it is normal. Maybe it’s just because I’m one of the “it’s worthy of death” types but I literally cannot comprehend in my mind how so many people just don’t see the problem with it.
Deflection.
Accuse others of doing something bad to hide the fact that you are doing something bad.
Republicans and right wingers are particularly adapt at so that it’s almost a cliche to point out that with right wingers, every accusation is a confession.
because “protect the children” has never really been about children—it’s about control, fear, and projection
the louder someone screams about morality, the more you should check what they’re hiding in their closet
they don’t care about consent—they care about power
and that’s why they’ll excuse abuse when it fits their narrative and demonize harmless people who don’t
it’s not hypocrisy
it’s strategy
and it’s always been disgusting
We hate most in others what we hate most in ourselves.
Humans.
Projection.
That’s not true. Stop inventing shit just to push a skewed political agenda
Because for many bullies and abusers, accusations are confessions.
They know, consciously or unconsciously, that they are sexually deviant and would or do hurt children, so they assume that anyone they perceive as also being sexually deviant would also hurt children. It’s pure projection.
Disclaimer: Homosexuality is not deviant and is part of the normal range of human sexual behavior.
When it comes to republicans you have to remember: every accusation is a confession. Everything they accuse democrats/ trans/ villain of the week of doing is something that they are actively doing.
Pedophilia should be automatic, mandatory capital punishment. The only possible exception I’d make is when a kid does it, because they are probably acting out what’s done to them and are too young to realize it’s wrong, yet. When you’re old enough to know the difference, then death row.
I briefly knew a self-described “non-offending pedophile” who hated gay people because their sexualities were becoming publicly accepted, and his wasn’t
i didn’t bother explaining consent or anything, just never spoke to him ever again.
Ready to get downvoted into oblivion but pedophilia is just as common in homosexuals as it is in heterosexuals. Freund et al. (1992) conducted a study and found that the ratio of heterosexual pedophiles to homosexual pedophiles is 11:1. Obviously there are more heterosexual pedophiles in the world because there are more heterosexual people in the world. Considering the ratio of heterosexuals to homosexuals in the world is about 20:1, if we are looking at straight data it would seem that overall a homosexual is actually more likely to be a pedophile that a heterosexual.
Now of course, this data could be inaccurate, it is difficult to determine the exact ratio of homosexuals to heterosexuals, and of course, being gay doesn’t immediately make you a pedophile, only idiots would believe something like that. But you have attached a negative connotation to a group you don’t like. Claiming that “people who oppose LGBT people” (the group you don’t like) are pedophiles (the negative connotation). Are there people in that group who are? Yes, of course, but I think your perspective may be skewed because you have seen a few examples. Most of the world doesn’t approve of gay people. Are most of the world pedophiles?
There are certainly a ton of pedophiles out there. It’s an unfortunate reality. In some places, like the middle east, it is more acceptable to be one than to be gay. There also seem to be a disproportionate amount of pedophiles among people in power. My belief is that people who desire power over others are more likely to be pedophiles. I think there is a confounding variable here. You say it’s people who dislike LGBT are pedos, but the ones you have listed are people in power, you just labelled them as a group you dislike. People who dislike gay people are idiots, yes, but that doesn’t make them pedophiles. Though some certainly are, and there are way too many pedophiles in the world, in all groups. If you go across the fence they say the exact same thing about LGBT and the left. Everyone hates pedophiles, except for pedophiles, and there are a smattering of pedophiles in every group. Weaponizing that is common for both sides, when really both sides should be coming together to battle the sickness. But now, we had to elect a pedophile president.
This is exactly the same thing anti-lgbt people say about lgbt people. Maybe, and just maybe, that has nothing to do with it and some people are just sick?
Like being a kid I know we all heard the myth of a gay couple adopting a kid to rape him. Then you grow up and realize both theres examples of both gay and heterosexual couples doing it.
Your life most be boring for you to spend time thinking about this things.
There’s a guy who comes to our school board meetings that is always complaining about the “pornographic” books in the school libraries. He rattles off words like sodomy or felatio, and I’m always so thankful my kids aren’t present when he speaks. I always “joke” that everything he is saying is just a glimpse into his Google search history. My skin crawls just being in his presence.
And they’re only catching such a small number of these people, you can go on any teen chatroom and pretend to be a 13 year old you can find a Pedophile within 5-10 minutes
It’s a pernicious lie but an old one. Show me the statistical evidence..
Edit: I definitely misread the title.
I don’t feel it’s one group over another (lgbtq vs anti lgbtq). I’ve seen news about a lot of pedophiles on both sides. From Hollywood to politics to the common citizens. From red to blue. From men to women. If you’re going to split it in two groups it should be the pedophiles and non pedophiles. It’s often that you find a teacher got a thing for students (one of my old teachers was arrested) or a rich man got an island to do his deeds. The wealthy just have the money to get away with it. Unless you’re Epstein or Diddy. But even then, Epstein’s death is sus. The people around him all had the money to get rid of him and cover it up. I think if there’s something we all can get collectively behind, it’s that pedophiles need to be disposed up regardless of age, race, title, or political affiliation/beliefs.
And just a little side note: Catholic Church in particular but churches in general (not all but some). Pedophiles. They claim the Bible says lgbtq is sinful, yet they doing that kind of shit?! Nah man! I’d rather a drag queen read my toddler books than a catholic priest. I’m just saying
Well I use to be an HR manager and part of my job was running back ground checks and checking the sex offenders list. All I’ll tell you is in my city of 203k people, 16,000 of them are on the sex offenders list.
Which is actually wild as hell. But I also want to tell you that there is no correlation between someone’s political party/moral ideals and this stuff.
People on the left and right do it. And to better prove that point, my state is vastly red. The city I am referring to is the capital and the only blue area(along with northwest),
There are 16,000 +/- sex offenders in my city alone and there are 19.7k sex offenders in the state alone. So there are roughly 3.7k people on the sex offenders list across the state that are not located in the capital.
With that math, you could assume that people who identify or live in blue areas tend to be sex offenders. But we also understand that doesn’t make any sense
I don’t think they’re more likely to be paedophiles than anybody else. There are just a lot of paedophiles about, so they’re represented in every group.
That’s funny bc that’s the opposite
most anti lgbt mfs are chatterboxes that walk around with their nuts to the floor and end up deflecting so much beauty, harmony, and positive lifelight that they start having to forcefully take it whether that be playing tricks on naive, unsuspecting, and easily trusting kids to get r worded or for anybody that fits their type that are easy to vulture, scavenge and prey on. being an asshole and being a diddler are def in the middle part of the venn diagram when it comes to having a shitty life & shitty morals
Its piinting at someone else so they dont look at you.
Like they do with people of color.
Like they do with immigrants.
Wait im seeing a pattern
Don’t you mean the teachers who talk about sex and gender and read pornographic books to children are the pedophiles?
there’s a shocking amount of woke people involved in children’s learning that are child predators
People that are bigots generally want to seem superior to people. And rape is about power so having power over a kid that can’t fight back might be the constant between the two.
They’re projecting for one. They have these thoughts so they figure everyone else does too. Deflection does wonders to redirect attention as well.
Sex-negative and shame-based cultures create the conditions for predators to be protected and/or hidden.
None of it is about “protecting children”. If they did care about children they would be funding school programs and not sending trillions of dollars bombing children overseas. It’s a justification to discriminate against trans people and push their anti-“DEI” agenda onto the masses
Project and deflect
It’s because patriarchal misogyny (the root cause of most anti-LGBT bigotry) and sexual predation go hand in hand.
Internalized homophobia.
Hate for others is the result of someone hating themselves, which leads to a miserable life which leads to them not caring anymore for the consequences of their actions