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Why Republicans Are Smearing Everyone As Pedophiles Now

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"Not long ago, the notion that American politics was oriented around a dispute over the merits of child sexual exploitation was viewed as so loopy that not even Donald Trump could take it seriously. It is now becoming the Republican Party’s most energetic idea. The two most prominent theaters of partisan combat of the moment, the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation and Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, have both seen a growing swath of conservatives embrace charges of pedophilia as their central theme.

Two years ago, the pedophilia charge was confined almost entirely to QAnon, a sprawling web of far-right conspiracy theories that operated around the fringes of conservative politics. And while some of the details produced by its theories would find their way into the minds of Trump and his inner circle (especially with conspiracy theories centering on the “stolen election”), the broader narrative that American politics was a fight over pedophilia remained marginal.

The pretext for injecting the theme into the Jackson hearings was that, as a judge, she supposedly failed to sentence child predators sufficiently punitively. This conveniently allowed Republicans to waft the allegation of pedophilia under cover of questioning her tough-on-crime qualifications. ...The pedophilia charge has worked in Florida as a way for DeSantis to smear his critics and demonstrate dominance to the right-wing base. ...One irony of this debate is that if Democrats wanted to turn the issue against the Republicans, they would have a much richer fact pattern available to them. Trump, still the party’s effective leader, has been accused by five witnesses of walking in on undressed teenagers. The party’s former Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, engaged in horrific sexual abuse of minors. Representative Jim Jordan helped cover up a sex-abuse scandal in college. More recently, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was credibly accused of sexuallly assaulting minors.


...The spread of this “issue” says nothing about the parties’ comparative permissiveness about sexual assault. It only reveals the existence within one of them of an openness to conspiracy theories and a network of operatives unprincipled enough to exploit it."

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The Republican Party is shamelessly grotesque and demagogic. They are treading in very dangerous territory.
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
It isn't the leftists fault that Catholic priests can't keep their hands to themselves.
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
You'd rather they look to Gen. Westmoreland?
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
The problem with Republicans is that they take a few legitimately horrible, shocking stories and blow them way out of proportion and pretend that they are a giant national threat, and assume that Democrats are in favor of these sick and twisted stories; Some abusive parent somewhere who identifies as a liberal tries to forcibly change their child's gender identity, and it becomes ALL liberals are doing it. Some bigoted person who identifies as a liberal and who doesn't understand history or sociology says that all white people are bigoted against black people, claims it is CRT, and suddenly all schools are teaching this. A book depicting human sexuality is found in some primary school somewhere, and suddenly all Democrats want to sexualize children. Some illegal immigrant drug dealer rapes a white woman and suddenly ALL illegal immigrants are drug dealing rapists from shithole countries. (though some, I assume, are probably good people... haha...) :rolleyes:

The reason it works is because Republicans tend to be uneducated, sheltered, and narrow-minded. Too many are simple-minded cowards who are easily frightened by someone repeating the same few terrible stories to them over and over again, and are easily convinced that these stories represent reality, and that the Republican Party is somehow capable of protecting them from this country full of "raging twisted leftists specifically targeting children and indoctrinating them with a bunch of sick and twisted ideas."
 
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It isn't the leftists fault that Catholic priests can't keep their hands to themselves.
SO...you think 2 generations of kids that are so ****ed up they have no idea what they are are all victims of Catholic priests? Hey...dont get me wrong...**** those people...they should burn in hell...but you REALLY think you are any better than them while you are advocating for targeting children in schools?
 

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Not long ago topics like these were taboo. It's not that children didn't suffer from this stuff back then it's just that they suffered in silence because they weren't allowed to talk about it.
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Bullshit. This lunacy has nothing to do with CHILDREN and its lunacy to believe that for the planets existence there were children everywhere yearning to be any of an ever growing number of ****ed up, made up 'genders'? No...these kids are ****ed up because of people like YOU advocating for them to be targeted as children
 

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You'd rather they look to Gen. Westmoreland?
A lifetime of children around the globe, and you think their options for role models should be Westmoreland or a bunch of ****ed up sick leftist twists promoting gender confusion?
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
How are children being targeted? Trans people know what their gender is, and they also know what gender dysphoria is, unlike you.


The GOP are projecting their own ideas about children as sex objects.


A lifetime of children around the globe, and you think their options for role models should be Westmoreland or a bunch of ****ed up sick leftist twists promoting gender confusion?
You can not promote gender confusion when a person's ordination or gender identity is fixed at birth. If reparative or conversation can not change an LGBT person into CIS and hetero then hetero and CIS kids cannot be made LGBT by story hour. Your problem is ignorance and your solution is to unleash rage at anything that you do not understand.
 
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A lifetime of children around the globe, and you think their options for role models should be Westmoreland or a bunch of ****ed up sick leftist twists promoting gender confusion?
Isn't that Westmoreland in your avatar?
 

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It's a convenient slur that evokes an emotional reaction in their constituents. It's basically how a lot of people instantly default to "racist" or "Nazi". The right has clamped onto it and will charge forward painting anyone to the left of them as pedos. Of course it's not true. But they'll hammer away at it because the slack jawed morons on the right (who are the ones more likely diddling kids) will eat it up.
 

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It's pretty simple when you understand that it's simply calling the opponents any bad thing you can find. It's why you see the right's gibberish calling Democrats socialist fascists and such.
 

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SO...you think 2 generations of kids that are so ****ed up they have no idea what they are are all victims of Catholic priests?

Not all.

Hey...dont get me wrong...**** those people...they should burn in hell...but you REALLY think you are any better than them while you are advocating for targeting children in schools?
When did I make this claim?
 

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What do you know of Roy Benavidez?
Let me guess. A war hero that gave the final measure of devotion his country in a military conflict that wasn't a war and that Westmoreland and America presidents lied to him and the rest of us about.

The question was is that or is that not Gen Westmoreland?
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
I am sure that Speaker of the House Hastert was protecting them back then....
 

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Not long ago, our children in this country weren't ****ed up by a bunch of raging leftists that specifically targeted them. Not long ago, instances of gender dysphoria in children was extremely rare. Not long ago, our children weren't indoctrinated by a bunch of sick twisted ****s that have gone out of the r way to model gender confusion. Not long ago, even our adults weren't so ****ing twisted they didn't know what gender they were or at least what ****ing species they were.

Then your lot came along.
Not long ago? Yeah, right. They pull this shit everytime they lose the white house. This particular time they sunk to a new low.
 

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Bullshit. This lunacy has nothing to do with CHILDREN and its lunacy to believe that for the planets existence there were children everywhere yearning to be any of an ever growing number of ****ed up, made up 'genders'? No...these kids are ****ed up because of people like YOU advocating for them to be targeted as children
Do I believe gender dysphoria existed before people talked about it or even really knew what is was? Yes I do. And I think people who suffer from it are a lot better off now that they are able to express what they feel.
 

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Do I believe gender dysphoria existed before people talked about it or even really knew what is was? Yes I do. And I think people who suffer from it are a lot better off now that they are able to express what they feel.
Trans people have always existed. Previously they lived in the shadows but now they can be open and proud about who they are. They didn't choose to be gay, they did nothing wrong and they arent going away.


Lou Reed wrote a song about them, in 1973,






 

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I don't think that Republicans believe that these attacks actually convince people that their opponents are pedophiles. I don't think that's why they make these outrageous, slanderous claims. Rather, it is to rile up their rabid base, to give them a cause to go out and fight a war against people they regard as subhuman. Look at VanceMack's posts as an example. Do you think he regards any of you as a person just like him? No, he thinks you're subhuman scum and he takes to message boards to make that point clear. He doesn't think you're literally a pedophile, but he thinks that you're on the same level for believing that gays should have the right to marry and that transgendered people shouldn't get the shit kicked out of them.
 
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