Because being against raping kids is a far-right position.
The political compass is looking so lopsided.
Normally it’s real swell to be vindicated, but I wish I had been wrong.
The right: Hey uhhhhh raping children is bad
Media, academia and politicians:
Pizzagate and pedophile-smearing also have something in common
with the day care– and satanic-abuse hysterias of the ’80s and ’90s.
“Moral panics function somewhat like parables: They validate a group’s
anxieties in a dramatic way, they exonerate the anxious from
culpability, and they assign blame,” wrote Richard Beck, author of We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s,
of the relationship between Pizzagate and those earlier conspiracies.
Alt-right and men’s rights activists are nothing if not anxious—anxious
about falling white birth rates, the increasing prominence of
communities of color, the entrance of feminist rhetoric into mainstream
discourse, growing visibility and rights for LGBTQ people, the election
of a black president and the near-election of a female one, and mounting
pushback against people who say racist and sexist things in public. By
accusing progressives of pedophilia, men scared of losing power can
convince themselves and their like-minded peers that they have
legitimate reasons to orchestrate their opponents’ downfall.
!!!! Not to mention that the entire culture of “filthy gay shipper/sinner” is incredibly fucking demeaning to gay people who have been considered dirty and sinful for centuries
