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Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty
(www.rawstory.com)
Stockholm syndrome, perhaps? 🤔
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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These people would literally in every sense of the word, drag our entire civilization back to a dark age of brutality and horror and despair and abuse of innocence just to preserve their own twisted self-delusion of being the "good guys."
Remember people: this is the REAL face of evil, it's when normal humans make excuses for harm to others. It's when someone like you or me makes the choice to tell themselves a story for why they aren't bad. This is how every atrocity has ever been facilitated.
If we allow these narratives to stand, we are going to experience an age of modern atrocity.
Don't you love religion
I got banned from reddit for commenting "woodchipper" on this article next to posts openly supporting violence against young girls. Pretty cool platform to be thrown out of.
I'm a scale between trump and Netanyahu, how much you love children
This was the very first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. I literally thought to myself “oh so she sounds like a pedophile.”
I remember a description of a photo from Epstein’s house where there was an unclothed toddler in the background and barely dressed tweens in the foreground. The 15 year olds are not ok, but it wasn’t just them.
I mean, technically correct?
People use the term wrong, but people who are ruled by emotion and not facts hate to think things through rationally. Which is the majority of everyone.
The term as used might not be consistent with a specific definition, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't about "technically, that isn't the correct term to denounce his sexual abuse of minors with" so much as shifting the goalposts for what counts as sexual abuse of minors in the first place. It's a shorthand, and both parties agree what it's short for, it's just that they draw the lines for that thing differently.
So no, it's not that people "hate to think things through rationally", because rationally thinking things through makes it clear that the context isn't a scientific one, but a moral and legal one. It's not wrong, you're just emotionally attached to a specific meaning.
I'd add that pedophilia could be the genera and ephebophile the species.
Or whatever the corresponding trinomial nomenclature is.
A teenager is still a kid. Legally, ethically, morally.
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Wow, but somehow they can't conceive the notion that people who have cooters or dicks don't have to be dudes or gals? ???