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My editor trashed my inquiry into child sexual abuse. Now I know why.
- neovialogistics 3y ago[flagged]
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- jvanderbot 3y agoRight, the "obvious" link between government power and pedophiles sounds like UK's version of Qanon. Are there pedophiles in power? Almost certainly. Is everyone in power a pedophile? No.
- datavirtue 3y agoSo I've heard.
- c420 3y agoThey might be, at least until they find another source of adrenochrome.
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- sjducb 3y agoThe goal of Russian propaganda is to spread doubt and distrust. The aim is to get people to believe that objective truth doesn’t exist, and that ALL elites are corrupt.
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- xNeil 3y agoYou're either reading Russian propaganda or American Propaganda. If you live in the US, which one will affect you more? (Genuinely asking)
- ithkuil 3y agoAll except "the right person who you can trust for some reason"
- sjducb 3y agoActually no. Pre war Russian propaganda was 100% sowing doubt, even internally. However now that they need to motivate ppl to fight it has started to move back to Soviet style propaganda which promotes a consistent false narrative. Basically ppl who don’t believe anything won’t rebel against you. They also won’t fight for you.
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- toyg 3y agoThere seems to be something peculiarly British about child abuse. Probably as a result of the enduring popularity of boarding schools, judging from media reports, the number of convicted pedophiles and sex offenders seems, to me, so much higher than in other countries. Does anyone have any stats confirming or disproving my gut feeling?
- kranke155 3y agoEton, where upper class boys are sent for a good part of their early life, has a strong connection to temporary homosexual connections, at least from the books I’ve read about the place. There’s been arrests by teachers at Eton for the same reason. Child sexual abuse. That’s all I know
- isykt 3y agoThe idea that homosexuality (or heterosexuality, for that matter) is a permanent state the persists through everyone’s life not only ignores the existence of bisexuals but is also ahistorical and probably an artifact of certain societies needs for categorizing people. I suspect capitalism has something to do with it.
- omscs99 3y agoMaybe it’s permanent for some and not for others? Either way, if you make the argument that it’s temporary, then people will push for stuff like conversion therapy So ig because conversion therapy is harmful people make this premature conclusion that it’s permanent
- isykt 3y agoPeople have all kinds of sex for all kinds of complex reasons, and have throughout history. You’re right that the repression of same sex attraction / expression / intercourse has led us to a place where “Born This Way!” Is the safest way to pose it. I have met men who didn’t find other men attractive in any substantial way under their wives died. I have met gay men who married women because they fell in love with a certain woman, and sexual attraction resulted. Prisons, gender segregated societies, and single gender schools are places where homosexual acts happen. It doesn’t really say much about the people themselves. For some people, maybe most, attraction is “stable,” but whether that has something to do with their innate being or the conditions they live in, it’s hard to say. As this point, personally, I see sexuality as less an identity or state and more of just an expression of what a person happens to desire over a certain period of time. Sexual desire isn’t all that different from hunger (the ASL signs for these are almost identical). A person could spend years of their life really into a certain set of foods, and then discover they’re into others. I used to hate mushrooms, now I love them. Hormones, environment, society… all of these impact “sexuality.”
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