Wondering about the GOP obsession with pedophilia?
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It's about BLOOD LIBEL. Below is a link to a post by the Institute of Policy Studies and is a good, succinct explanation about its history - over 900 years old. It's steeped in anti-Semitism and it's what QAnon is based on. Putin has always used charges of pedophilia to attack enemies; it dehumanizes them and tends to tarnish those accused forever. The links between the "alt-right" (aka Nazi sympathizers), PizzaGate and Russia are clear. The GOP, Trumpism and Putinism are in many ways indistinguishable.
Everything the right screams about is focused on their unholy crusade to "protect the children" and it's why they're trying to destroy the public school system. Whether it's bathroom bills or anti-trans/Don't Say Gay legislation, anti-abortion, anti-CRT, or any other way they purport to want to save the children we know it's bullshit because they propose nothing to truly support the well-being of all children, certainly nothing that involves economic support.
Christian Dominionism, white supremacy, nationalism and patriarchy are a toxic brew, and they all use charges of evildoers harming children as their tactic to dehumanize anyone who gets in their way.
What we're seeing isn't new but, like everything nowadays, it's greatly amplified -- especially with entire media networks and a political party using this heinous tactic -- and spreads like wildfire. EDIT TO ADD: I absolutely agree projection is at play. I wanted to impress that there's a longstanding strategy behind it, and I do believe projection has always been embedded in this strategy.
https://fpif.org/the-global-right-wings-bizarre-obsession-with-pedophilia/
Nearly 900 years ago, William of Norwich was found dead outside the English town of Norwich. The 12-year-old boy was an apprentice tanner from a family connected to the local cathedral. His death was an unsolved mystery, and the authorities didn’t charge anyone with murder.
But five years after the discovery of the body, a bishop defending a man accused of killing a Jewish moneylender in Norwich made the extraordinary claim that the victim had been responsible for killing young William. The bishop argued that the Jewish community of Norwich had chosen the boy for the purposes of ritual murder, an outrageous defense that successfully deflected attention from the murderer of the moneylender.
And thus was born the “blood libel.” According to this early conspiracy theory, Jews killed children to extract their blood for use in religious rituals or even such mundane tasks as baking matzoh. It has been a particularly durable myth, appearing throughout the Middle Ages, during the Nazi period, and even among modern anti-Semites.
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