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I understand why people try to change terms in order to make them sound more positive or palatable, but I don't understand how it can possibly work. When language is uttered, I will experience an idea or mental image of something.
Like here, supposedly "minor-attracted persons" is a more positive term than "pedophile." Why? "Pedo-" refers to children, "-phile" refers to something you have an affinity for or are attracted to. So "pedophile" is referring to the fact that you are attracted to children. To me, the term "minor-attracted persons" is more immediately descriptive of what you are. It sounds even worse to me.
I read something from a poster here today that mentioned the term "person of color" or "POC." As the poster mentioned, calling someone a "colored person" is now racist but the newly accepted term is "POC," which is almost literally the same term, just in reverse!
"Normal" is sometimes frowned upon, and assumed to be derogatory, when in actuality is referring to being in the range of what most people/things are.
"Retarded" is not accepted, when it merely refers to being limited in some way. It changed to "handicapped" and now, unless I'm behind the times, is referred to as "challenged," which all mean the same thing. I mean, "fire-retardant" simply means that fire is limited as far as it can burn.
I understand and agree with the fact that people want to avoid being cruel, but words are there to describe something, and no matter how hard you try, you have to describe what the facts are, if you're going to be honest, anyway.
They are called pedophiles. I refuse to use this bs new labeling to make it seem less disgusting than it is.
They just "wanted to be left alone". It "sounded reasonable" each baby step towards this, and as long as it "didn't affect" them, they went along with allowing it to happen.
Now the older ones are in shock at how perverted our society is.
Sorry to say the people who just want to be left alone have been subject to the whims of people who dislike how things or are simply power hungry and ambitious throughout history. There are lots of powerful institutions that don't require an elected vote, assuming you even got a vote in your society.
In most cases these people don't have the will to fight back...see China, ccp, covid lockdowns as examples.
To think what helpless children would be subjected to if this were an accepted thing...
It's been stated more and more that many abusers of any sort will gravitate to jobs that will enable them to abuse; teachers, nannies, elder care, pet groomers, coaches...
(Of COURSE I'm not vilifying these professions, per se, but just the abusers.)
They should be, they are creeps, I'd do everything in my power to get one of these genetic freaks out of my neighborhoods.
I can't trust that they won't act on their impulses.
I like a woman with a big ass and a big rack, at some point I'm going to act on it, no different than these people.
Exactly why I have a problem with Kansas allowing pedos to live by the schools and other places where children congregate! Kansas is recruiting these pedos, and is #10 of the states as far as pedo population.
These people are sick, and it is not as much sexual (if at all) as it is abusive. It is abnormal, and "like a rose that would smell sweet by any other name", these people are sick, and by any other name at all, they are still sick. They can seek help, and for those dedicated, I understand that they can make some progress toward at least controlling it, sadly, most of them get such a high from it, that they have no interest in controlling their sick urges. For the worst of them, this is not like a natural sexual drive, but directed at children, it is an obsession, an addiction that they have no intention of giving up.
We must be vigilant against any effort to normalize these people!
Exactly why I have a problem with Kansas allowing pedos to live by the schools and other places where children congregate! Kansas is recruiting these pedos, and is #10 of the states as far as pedo population.
These people are sick, and it is not as much sexual (if at all) as it is abusive. It is abnormal, and "like a rose that would smell sweet by any other name", these people are sick, and by any other name at all, they are still sick. They can seek help, and for those dedicated, I understand that they can make some progress toward at least controlling it, sadly, most of them get such a high from it, that they have no interest in controlling their sick urges. For the worst of them, this is not like a natural sexual drive, but directed at children, it is an obsession, an addiction that they have no intention of giving up.
We must be vigilant against any effort to normalize these people!
On a human level I feel bad for these people, they cant help geing born F'd up. It was the genetics lottery.
We can't take a chance on these people and they have to be monitored.
On a human level I feel bad for these people, they cant help geing born F'd up. It was the genetics lottery.
We can't take a chance on these people and they have to be monitored.
Sorry
The thing with genetics is that one can overcome a lot of that stuff if they try. We all have problems, but the REAL problem is when we allow one of these things to control us and say “I can’t help it, I was born this way.” Yeah no. Try harder.
A teacher in El Paso, Texas, is on administrative leave and facing termination after she told students to call pedophiles "minor attracted persons" in an incident that was captured on video and shared on social media, according to the city's school district.
In an 18-second clip, the Franklin High School teacher can be heard telling students to "stop calling them that. You're not allowed to label people like that."
"We're not gonna call them that," the teacher is heard saying in the video. "We're gonna call them MAPs, minor attracted persons. So don't judge people just because they wanna have sex with a 5-year-old."
I call said persons what they are: Pedophiles. They are disgusting people. This is my non-partisan take on it.
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MAP=" Minor Attracted Persons"?
