• dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    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.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      39·
      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.comEnglish
      38·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      13 days ago

      “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.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        26·
        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.

    • engelsaxons [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      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

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    64·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • porcupine@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    39·
    13 days ago

    “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.

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    13 days ago

    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.