• dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    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.

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      13 days ago

      “If you ignore the definition of a word and change the definition to something else entirely, then it’s not the meaning of the word.”

      I hate these fucking “Ummm ackshully…” debatelord libertarians. Him and the thousand people who liked his post need to be lined up against a wall and shot. I mean that literally, FBI agent reading this. Fuck these snakes.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If you feel the need to point out the difference between pedophilia and hebephilia you’re probably a pedophile.

      If you do it because you just confessed to being a hebephile, you’re definitely a pedophile.

      Teens are kids, you can’t change my mind.

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      Even without seeing that my first guess was dead on: they think it’s a vice, like just a little crime that special good boy rich white patriarchs can do as a treat, and are very, very invested in insisting that it’s not disordered and it doesn’t make them other and weird. Crimes against people they see as beneath them are just fun little treats that rich guys get to do as long as they don’t piss off the wrong people, but having something wrong with them? The very notion of it is deeply offensive to their fragile little egos.

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      “Well I’m not technically wrong” yeah but you’re still arguing for something nobody should approve of so fuck off?

      Yeah its not the textbook definition of “pedophile” but the cultural definition says its “pedophilia” and is condemned as imbalanced and immoral.

      Ask this person if they are capable of understanding why they don’t call cigarettes “f*ggots” despite it being “tEcHnIcALlY tRuE.”

      Because you have a cultural, socially determined definition, Pete. You fucking pedantic dweeb.

      We all know what you are doing. You know what you are doing.

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        13 days ago

        Linguistic prescriptivising one’s way into a prison cell would be pretty funny if a cop would do something productive for once and arrest this sex pervert.

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      Also gonna hit him on the semantic part here because why not but I remember seeing a documentary a long time ago about a rural village in an impoverished nation where girls were constantly developing incontinence issues and other long-term injuries because they were often giving birth at 14-15 and some anglo documentarian was saying how even waiting until they were 16 would have greatly reduced these rates because their bodies were too small and undeveloped (yikes ). So no Peter, 14-17 is not fucking “developed sexually” doomer