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Real enough that Utah passed a law to deal with it (i.e. "no, the state is not going to be used to abduct your children while they're walking home from the park
by qball 5y ago
Real enough that Utah passed a law to deal with it (i.e. "no, the state is not going to be used to abduct your children while they're walking home from the park, no matter how many times Karen calls us about uNsUpErViSeD cHiLdReN").
Is it that far-fetched to be wary of concern trolls given that the state allows itself to be used as their weapon?
- ctrlp 5y agoAnd even more so when those trolls are government bureaucrats and policy makers, doing the bidding of those who are profiting from child exploitation.
- germinalphrase 5y ago“doing the bidding of those who are profiting from child exploitation.” We recently had a politician arrested for grooming/abusing girls up here in Minnesota. Is this what you mean or are you referring to something else?
- ctrlp 5y agoI'm not surprised by that but that's just private exploitation. I mean the industries that have grown like a cancer on state and federal government. They have found it is very profitable to medicalize, sexualize, indoctrinate, and otherwise commercialize children. The only thing standing in the way are those pesky parents who want to protect them. The obvious strategy is to use their power to promote laws that give the state more authority over children or to give impressionable children more autonomy from their parents. The state acting in loco parentis implements the marketplace these industries profit within. To get back to your example, there is a disturbing overrepresentation if pedophiles aiding and abetting this process. I guess they are opportunistic and see only benefits for themselves.