chapotraphouse

The context of this tweet makes it even worse. The tweet you posted is part of a tweet thread where Peter tries to argue that Epstein was not a pedophile.

When i was in college I Killed and Ate people. That doesn't make me a cannibal!

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

It gets worse (CW: CSA)

In a just society, this tweet would have prompted an arrest. Openly admitting to this kind of crime, so brazen.

What the fuck did I just read

I'd say it's wild how reactionaries are so insistent on trying to draw a line between pedophilia (the predatory crime) and pedophilia (the disorder), but it really makes perfect sense: they revel in hurting others, they revel in having power over others and abusing that power, and they don't care about consent in the first place, but they will be absolutely livid if you suggest there's something wrong with them that makes them weird and bad.

There's also the extreme normalization of teenage girls as "acceptable" targets for adult men that all these fascists grew up immersed in, and which realistically has only started breaking down bit by bit in the past 20-30 years. To them preying on teenage girls is a socially acceptable vice like day drinking or doing rich guy drugs, because the world revolves around their own libertine treat lust and they perceive themselves as the sole arbiters of what is "normal", which makes them confused and angry when someone starts telling them that preying on their choice victims is not only bad but it makes them weird and other. It's one big mess of misogyny and libertine sociopathy and toxic masculine posturing/fragility.

“People often use the term ‘pedophile’ in a commonly understood way that is semantically incorrect,” and “I, Peter Schiff, am probably guilty of felony statutory rape,” may both be true statements, but one of them is considerably more newsworthy than the other, and I think he’s pretty dramatically mistaken about which one that is.

I want some kind of emoji or something to use as a response to this type of comment that flags it as like... the moment when a Fallout NPC says something that makes you open V.A.T.S. and target their head as soon as the dialog finishes.

who's this pedo and what makes him important enough to not be immediately arrested?

that's exactly what that means tho

It’s sad honestly because anyone with two brain cells can figure out that only a pedo would start a semanic argument about the word “pedophile.”

It’s a pretty simple concept that applies to pretty much any pseudo intellectual trying to escape a negative label.

With the finite time one has on this planet, I can't imagine spending any of it correcting someone on the technical definition of harm to a minor.

Western "values" folks

Oh god the ephebophile argument rises once again

Doesn't it though? Doesn't it make him a pedophile morally, linguistically and legally?

actually it does

Aristocrats joke voice: the Libertarian economists!

I'll call you a pedophile to your face for sex with an 18-year-old just to make you argue for legality in public

We need to add an asterisk to the Sartre quote:

Never believe that [right-wingers] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words*.

* With the exception of 'pedophile'. For some reason they take that one REAL seriously

I guess if you're eighteen and they're seventeen, then sure? But also if you're in college it'd be kinda weird to be with a high school student like that. Maybe on some technicality, but let's err on the side of don't do that.

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