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OK, so I'm going to explain my exact position on antis here, because I'm noticing "people who want to prevent child sexual abuse" and "people who want to be the Fandom Police" both falling under that name. So let's be 10000% clear. Explanation of WHY I have these views under the cut.
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If you help to expose people who groom children for abuse, and you do your best to protect kids and teens from those predators, then I wholeheartedly support you in that endeavor. Those people are disgusting and should be kept far away from children and from the more child-heavy social media platforms of Tumblr and Twitter.
BUT,
If you believe that depicting abuse (of whatever kind) of FICTIONAL characters in FICTION is exactly as bad as hurting real-life people who can actually suffer real-world physical and psychological damage from abuse? Then you are part of the problem, and you are making it harder to stop the actual predators. If this is your viewpoint, then I absolutely do not support you.
Because things that are Not Pedophilia, and often aren't even remotely related to pedophilia, are being called "pedophilia," people are being conditioned to IGNORE POSTS that start with "Hey, XYZ is a pedophile." That is a dangerous trend, and it hurts children. The only things you should be calling "pedophilia," instead of "depictions of pedophilia," "depictions of abuse," or "fiction that makes me feel bad," are the actual, real-life grooming or abuse of actual, real-life minors. Don't muddy the rhetorical waters.
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If you help to expose people who groom children for abuse, and you do your best to protect kids and teens from those predators, then I wholeheartedly support you in that endeavor. Those people are disgusting and should be kept far away from children and from the more child-heavy social media platforms of Tumblr and Twitter.
BUT,
If you believe that depicting abuse (of whatever kind) of FICTIONAL characters in FICTION is exactly as bad as hurting real-life people who can actually suffer real-world physical and psychological damage from abuse? Then you are part of the problem, and you are making it harder to stop the actual predators. If this is your viewpoint, then I absolutely do not support you.
Because things that are Not Pedophilia, and often aren't even remotely related to pedophilia, are being called "pedophilia," people are being conditioned to IGNORE POSTS that start with "Hey, XYZ is a pedophile." That is a dangerous trend, and it hurts children. The only things you should be calling "pedophilia," instead of "depictions of pedophilia," "depictions of abuse," or "fiction that makes me feel bad," are the actual, real-life grooming or abuse of actual, real-life minors. Don't muddy the rhetorical waters.
