LOL WUTThe word "Groomer" is violence against LGBTQ+

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[–]Horror-Swordfish 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The annoying thing is that these people aren't wrong, per se - misusing that term devalues it in the same way that calling everything racist devalues the word and makes people not believe it when some actual racism takes place. I'm sure I'll get crap for this, but it's wrong to imply that every LGB person is a sexual predator or a child groomer. But when you're calling someone a groomer when they're actually grooming someone... well, it's more harmful to the children to not be able to point that to anyone.

Edit: Also, it's Twitter. Get off your damn phone for like, ten minutes or something.

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said.

The problem here is that most people involved on this debate don't actually give a shit about child abuse, but only how to use the subject to "own" the opposition.

Case in point: when Epstein was caught, the utmost priority for some was to draw conections between the man and prominent right/left wing politicians in order to point fingers to political enemies, even though is very well know he had conections with big figures on both parties.

This is all part of the political game and conservatives are all too happy to have found their own little outrage-generating word to spam.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're quite right about the consequences for misusing it. It's unfortunate that misuse is what's already happening, because the smoothbrains on the right are thrilled to finally have a word that they can sling about freely. And it's also irritating that most of the people complaining about "groomer" are so fucking blind to the fact that they paved the road to slapping labels on everyone like this with their own casual abuse of terms like "racist" and "fascist."