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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Thesis up-front: "All X target demographic are also Y scapegoat demographic" is at root the Ecological Inference Fallacy at best, a Hasty Generalisation at worst, and is the kind of intellectual GIGO-algorithm that once you accept or normalise it in one demographic, you accept it for any demographic
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The bigoted right wing, at root, rely on popular acceptance of the Hasty Generalisation / EIF in order for their politics to work.
So when embraces e.g "All pitbulls are babykillers", or "All Catholic priests are pederasts", or "all LGBTQ are groomers", that person is susceptible to the others
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This fallacious posthoc justification way of thinking allows them to carry on their lives believing horrible things while also believing that they are right and are in the majority and that the people who think and live differently are in the minority and wicked, without cognitive dissonance
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This also allows them to reach further, into such areas as "we counted X number of votes in this county, we can then infer that the Y uncounted votes break down consistently with what's already been counted, no need to count them",
Which is … bad …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This particular mode of intellectual bankruptcy, the EIF, is core and endemic to their theory of knowledge, and we know that people become radicalised by accepting this mode of thought.
So it is irresponsible to normalise it — it provides oxygen of amplification for it — to accept it anywhere.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is also why the corollary ("… once this point has been reached, further productive discussion is impossible.") to Godwin's Law is true — because for ~25 years of the existence of the Internet, "You're a Nazi" was a derailing, hyperbolic Hasty Generalisation.
… was
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The other reason why Democratic politicians and the press aren't pushing LibertarianCon Theory is because there is an actual, documented, ethical way to deal with "This person victimises children sexually", and that's to indict, try, and convict the person while
Protecting Victims
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Moral Panics (and LibertarianCon Theory is a Moral Panic) about the sexual exploitation of children, especially when they're EIFs / Hasty Generalisations, materially harm the victims, inavoidably.
They divert resources from investigations, from rescues, from efforts to repair their lives. For witchhunts.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One of the things that White Identity Extremists & right wing media manipulator groups did on Reddit was set up "Reddit hosts child s*x exploitation groups and we're doing exposés on them" subreddits, which served many purposes, but worst of all amplified the abuse of the children.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They kept abusers abreast of where to go and who to follow to find CSAM / CSEM, which also interfered with law enforcement efforts, and also provided abusers with ways for them to inject themselves into the witchhunts, to portray themselves as rescuers.
Obviously — unacceptable.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If American society reaches the point at which people who believed in and upheld the Rule of Law & the proper institutions and processes for helping victims of child s*x abuse, instead turn to vigilantism —
At that point, I would like to be in Europe, eating one bowl of rice once a day, thanks.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's clear that vast swaths of Musk / Trump's base of support handwave away the s*x abuse scandals that crop up regularly. They don't think of it as "the political system I believe in normalises child s*x exploitation". They have a whole set of cognitive adaptations that let them hold their noses.
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