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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  13 to 19 are teenagers. You can dislike him all you want, it still doesn’t make him a pedophile.

  psychiatric diagnostic criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So if they instead said “known ephebophile Matt Gaetz”, you’d just be like “well done, carry on”?

    Add this comment to the huge list of shit I would never expect to ever say or type.

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, he’d still be an alleged one since he hasn’t been convicted, but yeah, there would be nothing else I’d take issue with in that. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the guy before, so I’ve got no partisan motivation here. “Pedophile,” like “Nazi,” is just such an extreme accusation to make against someone that I immediately assume people are being dishonest when applying these labels, and that turned out to be the case here as well. He’s already been suspected of sex trafficking minors, or at least being involved with it. I don’t see the need to lie about additional charges.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you really out here “um akshully ephebophile”-ing? I hope kids stay away from you.

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All I care about is the truth. Not liking someone doesn’t justify spreading misinformation.

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