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Ask yourself who benefits from equating "being mentioned in a file" and "having evidence this person is a pedophile"

• thaumasiotes 16d ago
  The answer appears to be "people who spend more time on offense than defense". Not to say that tilting things in their direction is a good idea, but that's a pretty wide class of beneficiaries.
  • d0mine 15d ago
    To be clear: the implied answer is "pedophiles". Pedophiles benefit the most from "being mentioned" == pedophile Because obviously, there are many people mentioned in different contexts and it is unclear how many of them are pedophiles. There are people who may disagree, but I'm from the generation who considers molesting children a serious crime--much much more serious than being mentioned in some email. Ask yourself why nobody is being prosecuted.
    • thaumasiotes 13d ago
      In the same way that the primary beneficiaries of witch hunts are... witches?
      • d0mine 11d ago
        no, unless you think [evil] witches are real. If they were real then muddying the water by implicating as much people as possible benefits witches because it creates the impression witches are not that bad, not so evil, no need to burn each and everyone of them at the stake to immediately.