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False accusations of being a Nazi have on occasion led to successful libel claims, so I’m not sure it a whole lot less serious than a false accusation of child

• PathOfEclipse 4y ago
  To groom is to "prepare or train (someone) for a particular purpose or activity." It also has a more specific definition: "the act of deliberately establishing an emotional connection with a child to prepare the child for child abuse". Today, I think people are using the word to mean a hybrid of the above two definitions, namely, to train or indoctrinate a child into sexual deviancy, even if the person doing the grooming does not take part in it directly. I think some uses today are also just synonyms for indoctrination, which fits only within the more general definition of grooming.
• slg 4y ago
  >False accusations of being a Nazi have on occasion led to successful libel claims False accusations of child abuse have on occasion led to jail time for the false accuser.