K, so as I've referenced and as I am sure you all can assume. My father was chin deep in the Pizzagate conspiracy the second it dropped in 2016. And because he has 0 filter I got to hear fucking ✨️everything✨️ and I have to tell you all. Almost everything bad that is happening now in the states ties back to this. This is where the general Trump worship, Q Anon and Satanic Panic revival came from. Which I think is commen knowledge but still. This is also largely where the "trans people are all pedophilic groomers trying to trans your children" came from.
However there was quite a few seeds this intitial conspiracy planted that thankfully died before they could grow.
The 2 main ones I remember:
- Attempting to paint the Hanky Code as a pedophilic flagging system.
- Trying to tie "Are you a friend or Dorthy?" and "Are you iver the rainbow?" to Oz Programming. For those who are unaware, these sayings where old ways for queer people to identify eachother. Essentially instead of asking if you where gay, they asked these things.
I am so happy this shit didn't stick. I am so happy these vital parts of American/Canadian queer history wasn't stained with this misinformation and filth. I may be wrong but I think they tried to wrap up the color Lavender (something used to flag mainly lesbains, but was used for gay men as well) however I do not remember what exactly they where trying to say Lavender symbolized.
Some other ""lovely"" things these scum tried to paint as pedophilic erotica and dog whistles was the work of various artists who where survivors of RAMCOA. Kim Noble was the main artist targeted. As I write this I cannot find her website that accredits pieces to the alter who created it, but I believe it was the work of Abi that was subject to the most scrutiny. Because her work depicted CSA and ritualistic abuse, because her work was explicitly about her trauma, and these degenerates ether couldn't handle raw expressions of unimaginable pain, or they got off on it and couldn't own up to being blemish upon the human race so they must accuse the already heavily victimized artist of being a temptress for predators.