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Don’t care. Kimmel deserves any slander he gets. He’s probably a pedophile. He gives those vibes
There is no pedophile type. There’s plenty of guys who are “the type,” who would never harm a child. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of “Chads” and “Alpha Males” who harm children.
Also, there’s a pretty big distinction between the congenital mental Illness of pedophilia, which is some degree of sexual attraction to prepubescent children, and child sexual abuse. Many pedophiles never harm a child and many nonpedophiles sexually abuse children.
The sexual abuse of children is an act of dominance, aggression, and opportunism.
Wars, conquest, economic inequality, patriarchy, nationalism, really anything that causes power imbalances to exist among different types of people increases the chances of child sexual abuse.
At every turn, rightwing ideology increases the chances for non pedophiles to sexually abuse child.
The populist right’s bluster about wanting to do horrific vigilantism against “pedophiles” discourages people with an attraction to children to seek mental health treatment. Moreover, their whole culture of publicly professing their hatred of pedophiles has nothing to do with protecting children. They just happen to understand that publicly voicing a desire to murder other social enemies is not acceptable anymore. The CHUDs would rather say how badly they want to lynch black people but they can’t, so pedophilia acts as proxy for their fantasies of enforcing hierarchy with violence.
Oh, also, the right’s war on sexual education, that will make it harder for child who were sexually abused or who are in a situation where sexual abuse is likely to happen. These child will have no way of articulating the danger they are in or how and by whom they were abused.
The solution to the sexual abuse of children is pretty straightforward. Dismantle hierarchies, build a universal culture of consent, and establish systems of care and mutual assistance throughout society.
If you truly care about the welfare of children, fight like hell for the most marginalized and vulnerable children in the world.