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I wasn't active on social media at the time smartschoolboy9 blew up, but I remember having many thoughts, and with it resurfacing over the last few months, I thought I could write them down, and maybe share them.

Who is smartschoolboy9?

Smartschoolboy9, who's name is largely believed to be David, is a man who keeps multiple facebook and instagram account posting as school-aged children. You can see him dressing up, roleplaying, and even singing, along with collages that very much fall in a weirdcore aesthetic.

What's going on?

Now, I will go ahead and get this out of the way: taking people's pictures to modify them for collages without their permission or even knowledge is bad, especially when said people are teenagers or children.

Outside of that, though, a lot of people point out videos of school classrooms and children, saying he took them. Thing is, when i first saw these, i thought it was pretty obvious that these were not taken by him. There are very few occasions I can think of in which he's have had the opportunity to film schools, and if the videos of children were taken by him, the cops would've been called way sooner (thinking specifically of the one running after a kid).plus, considering the editing and the fact he shows himself in all other videos, I think it's poretty safe to say these are just stolen as well.

Now, outside of that, people all over are alledging knowing him or seeing him around schools. Turns out, none of these claims have been successfully verified. The police, after multiple schools and parents panicked and were scared of sending their kids to school, issued a statement to watch over your children. A while later, they confirmed no investigation would be taking place.

Now, the police is mostly useless unless you're in the government, but you can't seriously tell me they wouldn't jump at the occasion of going after a black man. Though this is more common in America, it certainly is still prevalent in other western countries. I eprsonallybelieve that if smartschoolboy9 was lurking around school and playing with children in the streets, they would have at least looked into it (if not because it's their job, because the parents would have kept reporting it).

Now, he might be talking to kids on socials, but we don't know that for certain, and even if that ever was the case: - If you've ever talked online, chances are you've chatted publicly or privately with a minor - The chats could be innapropriate, but they could also be assinine - Teens under a certain age and children should not be on socials (watching youtube on their parents account is very different to having an instagram account). And if/when they do, they should be educated! Now either way, kids getting hurt over internet is not the kids' faults. What I'm saying is: please educate your kids on internet safety!

The only facts we are are: - he roleplays and dresses up as a school kid - police said no investigation will be taking place

My theory

So, what do I think could be going on? If we're very cynical, we could still believe in a predator, slick and hiden from view. However, with how slick he's being both on his personal account and with his alts, I have my doubts.

I personally believe otherwise.

I think smartschoolboy9 is a transage (possibly transrace or others as well) paraphile.

Now, don't read that last word and run back to the word predatior just yet. Words are becoming more and more conflated. We are losing 16 to 17% of our vocabulary over each generation. And why does that matter, you may ask. Well illiteracy and lack of proper education is one of the leading techniaues of fascism. Oh but Ika, why the hell are you talking about fascism in a post about smartschoolboy9? I know but let me cook. We're loosing language, loosing the abaility to express thoughts acurately and connumicate, meanwhile America is on red alter for genocide, the far right is rising in Europe, wars are background noises, nukes have become unlimited, and celebrities, millionaires and politicians are flaunting their child trafficking abuse ring in out faces without retributions. But I'm sure these aren't correlated and will have no consequences whatsoever. Point is, language is important.

Predator is defined as "one who injures or exploits others for personal gain or profit" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

A paraphilia is "a pattern of recurring sexually arousing mental imagery or behavior that involves unusual and especially socially unacceptable sexual practices (such as sadism or pedophilia)" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

There are a few key differences: - Predators aren't always paraphiles. A lot act out of a need for control, or anger, not sexual motives. - A predator acts or has acted, meanwhile paraphilia doesn't always include actions: they can be limited to thoughts. - If action is involved: a predator acts on others, a paraphilia can lead one to act on others but can also just be reading about said topics (masochists reading BDSM erotica for example) or with others for some (once again, BDSM).

In short, while the two terms can be linked, they aren't synonyms. While a paraphile can be a predator, not all predators are paraphiles and vice-versa.

Now, back to my "smartschoolboy9 is a transage paraphile" theory.

He roleplays as a school kid, and seems to genuinely immerse himself in said roleplay often, if not all the time. Doesn't this sound like transition OtY to any other rqdqueer or flaeuraison?

Same thing with the school thing: he's probably transschoolboy, transoccupation to going to school.

The face paint makes me think of atypical dysphoria as well, transwhite or maybe transdead (as people have pointed out his make-up looks like the pale skin and inflated forms of a corpse).

Then why am I saying he's a paraphile? The boots and some other reoccuring details make me think his identities are very linked to his sexuality. Leather boots especially are often associated to kink wear. Now there's nothing wrong with that ! Your identity and sexuality interacting and overtlapping makes a lot of sense, after all identity is who and what you are, and affects all aspects of one's life.

Adding on, I believe that his calling out of predators, seeing how self-aware he is, stems from a fetish for being discovered or being considered a weirdo. He might also be attracted to the idea of himself being groomed.

As for the suggestive edits he does, I believe he is an autopedophile, or someone attracted to themselves as a child. Now, I do believe he is also a pedophile period, however let's remember that paraphilia doesn't equal action, and so far, we have nothing concrete leading us to the conclusion of child abuse.

The public outrage, to me, is misdirected. Not the one at the individuals involved and redacted when they had no right to be, not the one at the people covering it up, no. The one directed against pedophilia.

Let's break this down before you brun me at the stake yeah?

What is pedophilia?

First off, pedophilia is a paraphilia, so let's define that.

Paraphilias are persistent and recurrent sexual interests, urges, fantasies, or behaviors of marked intensity involving objects, activities, or even situations that are atypical in nature. (National Library of Medecine)

Pedophilia is defined as a sexual attraction to children. (National Library of Medecine)

Let's keep this in mind and go over 2 more useful definitions.

An abuser is defined as someone who treats another person in a violent, cruel or unfair way. (Cambridge Disctionary)

A predator (person) is defined as someone who injures or exploits others for personal gain or profit. (Merriam-Webster Disctionary)

What do we know about the perpetrators?

We know that a number of people figured in these files have sexually abused children, made girls carry pergnancies to term and give birth, and tortured children (as well as exchanging videos of it and possibly canibilising them), all very obviously non-consensually.

We know some of these people's identities (only a few, asx their names were more redacted—and still are!—than the victims'infornation and the CSAM).

We have no idea of any of these people are pedophiles. Them abusing childen isn't proof—pedophilia is defined by attraction, not action. So while it may very well be possible that some of these people are pedophile, we have no idea if any of them actually are.

What we know from their horrible actions is that they are predators and abusers.

Why does this matter?

It is not news that anti-intellectualism is gaining traction as an ideology and even spreadin g to people who don't realise it.

Anti-intellectualism is a social and cultural attitude characterized by skepticism, mistrust, or outright hostility toward intellectual pursuits. (EBSCO)

This is not only bad (for culture amongst other things), but also dangerous. The less people know, the less they're able to question authorities, and the more said authorities have power over them.

This is actually one of the main tactics of fascim. A people that cannot question also cannot revolt. (Medium).

Conflating words leads to them meaning the same thing, instead of two different things, and thus strips us of some more nuance to explain things. Less words and nuance makes it harder to think and communicate clearly.

The more muddied thought is, the less easy it is to form into something more, something actionable—like revolt.

Conclusion

It is, by definition, nearly always far right, as authoritarianism and nationalism are right values. That does not mean terrible things don't happen under the left, but these aren't by definition fascism.

Recognising fascism is important to avoid letting it rise to power and repeating history. Thankfully, there are signs.

Note: these alone do not make fascism, they are tactics we can recognise to be used by fascism and signs that can warn us. Only when multiple of these coagulate, we are, if not in fascism, at least bordering on it or going towards it.

1 - A Mythical Past

All nationalism is rooted in a mythical past. A regular nationalist mythic past is based on how good things are/were when we are united as a nation.

Fascist mythic pasts however, presents itself as a greatness brought by military strenght, when the superior people ruled over everything. It presents this past to have been taken from the people by the opposing group, aka the left.

2 - Propaganda

Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic spread of information—often biased, misleading, or emotional—to influence opinions, attitudes, and behaviors toward a specific cause, ideology, or agenda

Every party uses propaganda. Even advertisement is a kind of propaganda. But there are some defining qualities belonging to fascist propaganda specifically.

Fascist propaganda bases itself on a friend vs ennemy dichotomy where the ennemy is a dangerous threat to your very existence, where the ennemy is fundamentaly opposed to the nation and therefore to you.

3 - Anti-Intellectualism

"Science is only useful so far as it strenghtens the nation" - Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

Fascism is a cult of the leader. In such systems, the one setting the rules, the one deciding what is truth and what is lie, is the leader; not science.

Any institution teaching multiple perspectives or nuance is a threat to the leader's truth, and therefore to his nation.

4 - Unreality

You are not free if you've been lied to, as then you cannot make your own, independant decision based on your critical thinking skills, as the information you're basing your decisions off of is false or has been tempered with.

Who would say the citizens of North korea are free? DO they really vote freely for their leader if all they have to go off of to make decision is his narrative?

A fascist regime will not, for example, throw a president out of office for lying to their citizens; meanwhile a democracy would.

5 - Hierarchy & Victimhood

No group of people is inherently better than another.

The big lie at the center of fascism is that there is, in fact, a group of superior people.

Racism, for example, is one of such lies. It is the lie that one group of people is better than another. So is the patriarchal belief that men are the stronger gender.

If you convince people they are justifiably higher than others in this hierarchy, you can then make them come to the reasonable conclusion that they are oppressed by equality, and therefore victims of those trying to fight for it.

6 - Law and Order

The members of the 'lesser" group that accept this place are considered law-abiding while the members of the dominant group are considered law-abiding by nature.

The leader is the one controlling law and order, and is therefore above it.

Law and order doesn't mean equality or even justice. It serves as a structure to separate who's legitimate and who's not.

7 - Queer Fear-Mongering

The rethoric that women and children are under threat and need strong men to protect them serves as the launching pad to make people afraid of queer people. This is where the "transgender women are just men going into bathroom to rape women" and "the gays are pedophiles" rhetorics stem from. The aim is to make people adhere to the belief that these aren't people just trying to live their lives, but instead people trying to destroy your life.

8 - Rural-Urban Divide

Fascist systems usually rest on an urban-rural divide. In the cities there is decadence, criminality. The pure, hardworking people are in the country-side, working real and useful jobs.

9 - "Work Shall Make You Free"

This phrase was written on the gates of Auswitch. The idea behind it is that the minority group is lazy by nature and need to be made to work. Work should not be easy; hard work is a virtue. Unions are all run by communists trying to make the work easier and bastardize this virtue.

Disabled people who can't work, or would have to work differently, in a manner then considered "lesser", are deemed lazy and of little to no value.

While there are the main amd most widely used tactics across fascist regimes, others can tack on and vary. These 9 are already a good starting point into recoignising fascism when it arises in order to stop it.

Sources

Wikipedia - Fascism

Wikipedia - Propaganda