"We are in an era of obsessive, odd, and sprawling fear of pedophilia—one where QAnon’s paranoid thinking is no longer bound to the political fringes of middle-aged posters and boomers terminally lost in the cyber world." https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/how-q-became-everything-big-feature-wayfair-balenciaga/
@reportbywilson When you catch accounts engaged in creepy ped activity on the bird Maga, qanon, militias, white nationalists, and everyone telling us "its the gays" is fine with it. Also when people have legitimate bandwagons they usually talk about it BEFORE it becomes a political talking point which many of them never cared before. This shows they don't really care about pedophiles.
@reportbywilson Pedophilia is the perfect emotional hot-button issue for politicians. It strikes at the emotional core of all parents.
It matters not that most of the claims are total fucking nonsense. All that is needed is an intro containing the phrases "safety" and "your children", and you have a hooked audience. They don't realize it, they just had their deepest fears activated, so rational analysis disappeared out of the window. They have been captured by a frame.
@reportbywilson and yet, those same people with the obsessive fear of pedophilia are just fine with a 40 year old man marrying a 14 year old child