• pyre@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    based on how people use them, not ordained by the gods of language. people say pedophile to mean someone who rapes a minor.

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      2 hours ago

      I mean you can also say someone is a murderer of they eat cabbage, but you’d be wrong.

      Calling everyone you dislike a pedo is as lame as calling everyone you dislike a commie or Hitler.

      Seriously… having sex with or raping a 17 year old doesn’t make you a pedophile. It makes you a statutory rapist. That’s bad enough without having to make dumb shit up as an insult.

      I’m surprised and disappointed so many on lemmy are falling into that sort of weak bullshit but… here we are