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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

I think this explains why so many politicians (especially conservative ones), billionaires who aren't politicians, religious leaders, and simps who idolize them all, so frequently turn out to be child-raping pedophiles or just rapists in general.

Statistics relentlessly attempt to claim that pedophilia has no political correlations.

I think these claims of 'no correlation' are failing to account for the more important question of how often an offender is CONVICTED of child sexual exploitation or abuse, because...

MEANS. MOTIVE. OPPORTUNITY.

Even IF it turned out to be empirically proven true that this particular underlying especially malignant and destructive paraphilic disorder did not have any other correlations, you know what DOES correlate to following through with raping someone...?

The difference between someone who is a predator and someone who isn't is that the predator attempts to pursue prey: predators actively LOOK for opportunities, and actively DEVELOP means, to appease their motives.

SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN A PERSON TRIES TO ESTABLISH THE MEANS TO GET AWAY WITH ACCESSING A VICTIM AND RAPING THEM?

Rhetorical; I'm going to tell you - it's AUTHORITY. Social trust. Political power. The money to buy both. Even if the same motives were to hypothetically exist across all demographics, you will see a disproportionate amount of OFFENDING among those specific demographics where means and opportunity exist.

This is why most rapists are related to their victims familially.
They are an elder in their family, which confers authority, power, and trust: MEANS.
The potential victim is right there in the house on a fairly regular basis: OPPORTUNITY.

This is also why people who have fewer hesitations regarding the acquisition and exploitation of authority are disproportionately represented... They believe that authority entitles them to the right to use or abuse people as they please. And THOSE beliefs align with...

... TRADITION.

AND

... CONSERVATISM.

There most certainly ARE leftists who are perverts, especially when they attain some degree of popularity - because POWER ENABLES RESISTANCE TO CONSEQUENCES. But usually when it happens in the left they are dog piled and eaten alive before they can form an international ring of child sex trafficking. Not so with so-called "centrists" who optimize for loose tolerance and "coalition building" with inhuman irredeemable scum sucking vermin in the way that mainstream Democrats were ALSO buddy buddy with Jeff Epstein.

It's always going to be a problem that paraphilic individuals with few scruples will ooze out from between the cracks of any societal structure and inflict harm. It's that some societal structure are more hospitable to their ilk than others. Societies that value resistance to concentrated power or authority, and prioritize mutual consent and egalitarianism, are at least SLIGHTLY less conducive with letting predatory exploitation fly.

THERE ARE OBJECTIVELY FAR MORE RIGHT WING GRIFTERS THAN LEFT WING ONES, AFTER ALL. when there's a grifter on the right, they are lauded as successful masters of their craft. When there's a grifter on the left, criticism calling them out is often the FIRST exposure you'll have to their very existence.