• SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Well yeah. Just because something makes you really uncomfortable doesn’t make it a crime. A crime has a victim.

      Also, the vast majority of children are victimized because of the US’ culture of authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. That’s why far and away children are victimized by either a relative or in a church. But y’all ain’t ready to have that conversation.

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        7 months ago

        That thing over there being wrong doesn’t mean we can’t discuss this thing over here also being wrong.

        So perhaps pipe down with your dumb whataboutism.

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          It’s not whataboutism, he’s being persecuted because of the idea that he’s hurting children all the while law enforcement refuses to truly persecute actual institutions victimizing children and are often colluding with traffickers. For instance LE throughout the country were well aware of the scale of the Catholic church’s crimes for generations.

          How is this whataboutism.

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            Just to be clear here, he’s not actually persecuted for generating such imagery like the headline implies.

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            Because it’s two different things.

            We should absolutely go after the Catholic church for the crimes committed.

            But here we are talking about the creation of child porn.

            If you cannot understand this very simple premise, then we have nothing else to discuss.

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              They’re not two different things. They’re both supposedly acts of pedophilia except one would take actual courage to prosecute (churches) and the other which doesn’t have any actual victims is easy and is a PR get because certain people find it really icky.

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        7 months ago

        First of all, it’s absolutely crazy to link to a 6 month old thread just to complain that you go downvoted in it. You’re pretty clearly letting this site get under your skin if you’re still hanging onto these downvotes.

        No, I just… Remembered the thread? Wasn’t difficult to remember it. Took me a minute to find it.

        This may surprise you but CP isn’t something I discuss very often.

        I don’t lose sleep over people defending CP as “art”, nor did it get under my skin. I just think these are fucking idiots and are for some baffling reason trying to defend the indefensible and go about my day. I’m not going to do anything about it, but I’m sure glad I don’t have such dumb comments linked to a public account with my IP address logged somewhere…

        I just raised it to make my point.

        I didn’t bother reading the rest of your essay. Its pretty clear from the first paragraph where you’re going to land.