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Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty
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No, it's that he was a hebephile instead of a pedophile.
There is a distinction between the two, they are both still fucking bad.
You're a pedophile defender.
No, I'm not — I was disgusted to hear Megan Kelly try to draw some kind of positive distinction between "barely legal types" and "children".
Personally I don't consider the distinction between terms to be meaningful beyond human need to categorize. A 12 to 16 year old is still a fucking child, a 17 year old is still a child. There are plenty of arguments to make about whether 18 year olds are adults.
That being said, nothing about my comment suggests that I support the message they're trying to portray. Maybe read the entire comment before calling me a conservative next time, ok?
the more they try to come up with new terminology to excuse it away, the more I just put them in the bucket labelled 'kid fuckers'.
I think that putting enough thought to categorize between hebephile and pedophile is already and upsetting amount of my brain power spent on people who hurt kids.
I have a better thing to call them — castrated. Or dead, I don't care — whatever prevents this from happening to other children.
I too dream of a day when consequences are a thing for shitty people. keep hope alive.
Some would say that holds true until well into people's 20s
It's the same old defense heard from conservatives everywhere. He's not a pedophile, he's a hebephile. Whatever
Are you drunk?
You need to read and reread what I've said. Good god.
... And this, my friends, is a perfect example of Poe's Law.
No they are ust saying there is a difference. That's why there are two different words.