LOL WUTThe word "Groomer" is violence against LGBTQ+

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[–]Horror-Swordfish 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The annoying thing is that these people aren't wrong, per se - misusing that term devalues it in the same way that calling everything racist devalues the word and makes people not believe it when some actual racism takes place. I'm sure I'll get crap for this, but it's wrong to imply that every LGB person is a sexual predator or a child groomer. But when you're calling someone a groomer when they're actually grooming someone... well, it's more harmful to the children to not be able to point that to anyone.

Edit: Also, it's Twitter. Get off your damn phone for like, ten minutes or something.

[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said.

The problem here is that most people involved on this debate don't actually give a shit about child abuse, but only how to use the subject to "own" the opposition.

Case in point: when Epstein was caught, the utmost priority for some was to draw conections between the man and prominent right/left wing politicians in order to point fingers to political enemies, even though is very well know he had conections with big figures on both parties.

This is all part of the political game and conservatives are all too happy to have found their own little outrage-generating word to spam.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're quite right about the consequences for misusing it. It's unfortunate that misuse is what's already happening, because the smoothbrains on the right are thrilled to finally have a word that they can sling about freely. And it's also irritating that most of the people complaining about "groomer" are so fucking blind to the fact that they paved the road to slapping labels on everyone like this with their own casual abuse of terms like "racist" and "fascist."

[–]proc0 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Always blacklisting words. These people are so Disney.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is going to make the backlash against gay people even worse. As a gay man I will never stop saying groomer.

[–]iamonlyoneman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're now one degree removed from the critical connection of dots here.

They are ignoring that connection as hard as possible. I hope the story gets onto the news and peaks a few sleepers.

[–]kingc-way245The Blackface of White Supremacy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that they came to to the conclusion that the word “groomer” “attacks LGBT people” really shows how they actually feel about them

[–]t_deaf 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So sorry, Ari - but language evolves!