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Old 05-25-2023, 08:46 AM   #252
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Originally Posted by Sliver View Post
He's probably not wrong, though lol. Being accused of pedophilia - for most people - is totally preposterous and pretty easy to brush off. Being accused of racism? That's much more plausible and you'd react pretty fast to defend yourself.

So as ridiculous as it is, I actually don't think he's wrong.
I don't think the comparison was based on the ridiculousness of calling someone a pedo (therefore not taking it serious)

There seems to be this idea floating around (among conservatives) that pedophilia is now acceptable because some random professor said we should ditch the term "pedophile" in favour of “Minor Attracted Persons” in order to destigmatize the term

https://torontosun.com/news/world/wo...tracted-person
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