You, yes you specifically reading this, are a pedophile.
This news probably came as a surprise to you. After all, you havenât done anything pedophilic that you know of. Yet here you are, accused of being a pedophile.
It doesnât matter whether youâve been diagnosed with POCD or not, whether youâve sought out material or not, even if youâve been vocally opposed to pedophilia in the past. What matters right now is that YOU are a pedophile. Someone said it was true, and thatâs what matters to most people.
Donât worry, it happens to a lot of us, especially if youâre queer and ESPECIALLY if youâre transfemme. Hell, itâs happened to me before:
For some people, they become more vocally opposed to pedophiles to prove they arenât a pedophile. Others develop radical compassion.
This is gonna sound like an unhinged comparison at first, but hear me out.
This whole âdiscourseâ around ISFF has had me thinking over and over again about how Paul Robeson was blacklisted from being a prominent face of the civil rights campaign despite being possibly the most globally well known Black person from the US, bc he was a communist in a time it wasnât just unacceptable socially but legally dangerous and wouldâve brought even heavier crackdowns on the civil rights movement.
The result was an incomplete liberation because it was only uplifting the âacceptable onesâ within a capitalist framework rather than uplifting the baseline total rights regardless of belief/existence.
The point there being is that so long as there are categories of human we view as unacceptable we cannot achieve total liberation. All trannies and faggots are pedophiles, addicts, bums, rapists, whores, etc. to those who see it convenient to get rid of us, and refusing to address this issue will only result in an incomplete liberation because we cannot leave behind those who are seen the worst by society when we ARE them too by default.
âBut communist and pedophile is an unhinged comparisonâ theyâve been calling communists that, perverts, sexual deviants, etc. since McCarthyism anyway so.
We cannot be truly liberated until even those viewed as âthe worst of societyâ have the same basic rights and ability to survive in society as everyone else. As humans, they deserve that much. If you cannot accept that, consider that all any of the rest of us need to become one of them is to be accused of it. Proof doesnât matter. Reality doesnât matter. You are a pedophile. You will become a pedophile as soon as it is useful for someone to make you into one.
There is no option but acknowledging they are still human and cannot be simply removed from society, because as long as there are stigmatized demographics, we will be able to remove the basic rights of anyone.
I donât have a âsolutionâ and I will not answer requests for one, because Iâm not here to offer one, Iâm saying that humans remain human and we cannot achieve true liberation as long as we are willing to allow demographics of âacceptable ones to harmâ. We have to start here. Everything has to start from here.