i cannot stress enough how terrifying qanon is and how many of you need to be exceedingly careful when you engage in conversations or controversies around csa and child abuse or sex trafficking. like you dont need to be a MAGAer to fall for their rhetoric. a lot of stuff around it is incredibly guilt tripping if you even slightly question the implications (“you’re a pedophile??? you want kids to be abused???”) so way too many people just follow blindly without thinking of who benefits in these wild theories of large pedophilic elites and infiltration in media or massive sex trafficking rings. neither is it protecting kids when once again, this takes attention away from where most csa takes place–the home, religious spaces, school. and it’s also led people to harass csa survivors or attack charities who themselves have expressed caution. please please think carefully before you engage with these people and these posts, think about who’s most likely to be accused of csa from this pov versus who ACTUALLY commits it. im seeing way too many leftists engage in flat out blood libel and homophobic witch hunts at this point, and even reblog/retweet shit from qanon folk because they hide their batshit racist conspiracy theories under “saving children”.
please please please ask yourself where this is going. even if you dont go full Q, ask yourself if the hysterical posts about sex trafficking are truly anchored in reality and who posts them, and what people are callinh for. ask yourselves why it’s easier to imagine a sinister group infiltrating children’s media or authorities to traffic and groom kids than it is to think of your family or next door’s neighbours casually enabling and hiding csa. ask yourself why whenever somebody urges caution, including csa victims themselves, the immediate urge is to call them a pedophile and attack them. ask yourself who tends to be seen as suspect versus how csa actually happens and to whom. ask yourself why so many republicans are jumping on the wagon of Concern For Children when they’ve been letting sexual abuse of migrant children happen in their camps. ask yourself why now every pride people screech rumors about gay men having sex in front of kids and pass around videos of events that are actually 18+. ask yourself, are people actually appealing to your sense of compassion and responsibility, or to your sense of visceral disgust and group punishment?
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