• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Holy shit I had a conversation the other day with a dude who said, “democrats just want to touch children and change their genitalia”

    He went off about how democrats want to change pedophile name and be more accepting. I told him people don’t say that. Only pedophiles do. He went off about how democrats are pedophiles.

    He went off about how schools, doctors, and liberal agenda is allowing the mutilation of children’s genitalia.

    Taking something he says is fact and blowing into the massive majority of all Democrat fundamentals.

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      11 months ago

      ask him what he thinks of circumcion without consent at young age and I bet he will defend that without hesitation

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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      11 months ago

      In that situation, the best thing to do is agree with them and then start telling them about how voting is a way for the goverment to track you and/or … plant … fucking alien brocolli seeds in your brain or something, so never ever vote

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      11 months ago

      Tell him there are more convicted Christian & Republican paedophiles than Democrats.

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      11 months ago

      BTW, the justification for using different names for pedophiles - like minor attracted person - isn’t to normalize child abuse.

      Rather its to get people to seek and accepted help.

      The real goal for us should be protecting kids. Not punishing people with dirty thoughts.

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        11 months ago

        I think that’s a good cause, but isn’t the definition of a pedophile meaning one who likes young aged people? Minor attracted person is the same thing with extra steps. Same stigma, same thoughts, same people.

        Get the help but unfortunately it may be one of the things that shouldn’t be vocalized in a normal setting as most people are too narrow minded to help.

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      11 months ago

      These kinds of conversations are why I quit my last job. I couldn’t take it anymore.

      I’d get whole tirades like that and just be like…

      “Ok…uh…sure…so…welcome to the library, did you want to print something or…?”

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      11 months ago

      Some times it’s difficult to tell if a person like that is serious or just seriously trolling you. However, I have met people who say some of the wildest things about wikipedia, vaccines, police, governments etc. and they seemed very serious to me.

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        11 months ago

        it’s literally doublethink (literally 1984!!!) as it’s both. They seriously adopt a facetious position to troll and believe it wholeheartedly should be policy and law.

        Yes, it doesn’t make any sense. That’s deliberate too.