You, yes you specifically reading this, are a pedophile.
This news probably came as a surprise to you. After all, you havenât done anything pedophilic that you know of. Yet here you are, accused of being a pedophile.
It doesnât matter whether youâve been diagnosed with POCD or not, whether youâve sought out material or not, even if youâve been vocally opposed to pedophilia in the past. What matters right now is that YOU are a pedophile. Someone said it was true, and thatâs what matters to most people.
Donât worry, it happens to a lot of us, especially if youâre queer and ESPECIALLY if youâre transfemme. Hell, itâs happened to me before:
For some people, they become more vocally opposed to pedophiles to prove they arenât a pedophile. Others develop radical compassion.
This is gonna sound like an unhinged comparison at first, but hear me out.
This whole âdiscourseâ around ISFF has had me thinking over and over again about how Paul Robeson was blacklisted from being a prominent face of the civil rights campaign despite being possibly the most globally well known Black person from the US, bc he was a communist in a time it wasnât just unacceptable socially but legally dangerous and wouldâve brought even heavier crackdowns on the civil rights movement.
The result was an incomplete liberation because it was only uplifting the âacceptable onesâ within a capitalist framework rather than uplifting the baseline total rights regardless of belief/existence.
The point there being is that so long as there are categories of human we view as unacceptable we cannot achieve total liberation. All trannies and faggots are pedophiles, addicts, bums, rapists, whores, etc. to those who see it convenient to get rid of us, and refusing to address this issue will only result in an incomplete liberation because we cannot leave behind those who are seen the worst by society when we ARE them too by default.
âBut communist and pedophile is an unhinged comparisonâ theyâve been calling communists that, perverts, sexual deviants, etc. since McCarthyism anyway so.
We cannot be truly liberated until even those viewed as âthe worst of societyâ have the same basic rights and ability to survive in society as everyone else. As humans, they deserve that much. If you cannot accept that, consider that all any of the rest of us need to become one of them is to be accused of it. Proof doesnât matter. Reality doesnât matter. You are a pedophile. You will become a pedophile as soon as it is useful for someone to make you into one.
There is no option but acknowledging they are still human and cannot be simply removed from society, because as long as there are stigmatized demographics, we will be able to remove the basic rights of anyone.
I donât have a âsolutionâ and I will not answer requests for one, because Iâm not here to offer one, Iâm saying that humans remain human and we cannot achieve true liberation as long as we are willing to allow demographics of âacceptable ones to harmâ. We have to start here. Everything has to start from here.
Threatening violence against people who have harmed no one is unhinged behaviour btw. You donât need to belong to a group to recognise theyâre being treated unfairly - insinuating thatâs the case is Fascist behaviour. As long as there is a group of people whose mere existence renders them worthy of violence in the eyes of others you will be accused of belonging to said group in a (probably successful) attempt to smear you. Judge people by their actions not what minority group they belong to. Stop protecting abusers and helping them deflect attention from their actions.
You called it about accusing me of being a pedophile for this lmfao - like, Iâm a CSA victim who came around to this point of view after years of having at worst violent rhetoric towards them and at best still dehumanizing. I was wrong then and Iâm willing to say it.
Meanwhile seeing shit like this from former moots and comments on their posts now:
This is my point. Weâve been watching conservatives slander every trans person they can as a pedophile to try and remove us from public life, to justify harm to us, and this can only keep happening as long as theyâre a demographic this is acceptable to do this to. They did the same type of moral panic accusations to gay men, to communists, thereâs a rich fucking tradition of using pedophilia accusations to remove other âundesirablesâ regardless of whether they are or not.
Youâre scared. I understand that. I was too when I posted this and itâs already led to harassment, threats, and attention from the freaks that doxxed me a while back.
The fear of this weapon is why so many trans women are terrified of taking jobs in education, in child care, of HAVING THEIR OWN FUCKING CHILDREN WHILE OUT AS TRANSFEMME. Because we know that thereâs an invisible countdown clock until we get smeared as pedophiles for working in that role while transfemme.
The only way we can stop it from being a weapon is to stop enabling its use as a weapon. This does not mean to cease protecting children either, we must make sure that children have the knowledge and language necessary to not only protect themselves, but communicate when someone is trying to harm them.
I understand being afraid of this weapon. Of being smeared as a pedophile for choosing no longer to wield it as a weapon. I was fucking terrified of it too. But as fascism gets worse globally this weapon WILL be wielded against the marginalized more and more, and the only options are to blunt its effectiveness as a weapon, or to abandon every single person it is leveled against in the hopes it takes longer for it to be pointed at us.
It shouldnât take it happening to you for you to give up this weapon. We must make it so that it no longer happens to anyone, because thatâs the only way it stops happening to us.
i want to append tags from @womenintheirwebss
the issue must be understood as a systemic one. why is it so easy for other issues but impossible for csa. liberating youth, decaying the power of the parental figure, effectively addressing misogyny and patriarchy; these all are more effective for preventing csa than the treatment of pedophilia as an individual evil ever will be. embrace materialism, learn materialist analysis, discard idealism.
