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It's not libertarians who rebranded and rehabilitated pedophilia as 'minor attracted persons'.
Comment by KingKhaion at 19/01/2025 at 20:07 UTC
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It almost certainly was libertarians who invented the term, as it says in the study below. The scientific community is running with it as a "value-neutral" way to refer to pedophiles as a way to encourage them to participate in studies so they can be understood and hopefully provided treatment and/or rehabilitation.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380241270028
What the pedophiles did in inventing the term is co-opt the language of social justice to throw a wrench into conversations.
The linguistic changes from "colored person" to "person of color", "disabled person" to "person with disabilities", etc. were implemented to emphasize the personhood of people who are affected by things outside of their direct control and to bring them into conversations about changing their material conditions (discrimination, inaccessibility).
What changes would affect the material conditions of pedophiles? Age of consent laws. What laws are so vocally disputed by libertarians? Age of consent laws.
Maybe not every rectangle is a square, but those squares are certainly rectangular
Comment by GutsAndBlackStufff at 19/01/2025 at 18:58 UTC
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It is however libertarians trying to lower the age of consent, and trying to distract from that by misrepresenting one study with no public policy position associated with it.
Comment by Murrabbit at 20/01/2025 at 03:24 UTC
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I've literally never seen anyone other than right-wing weirdos (libertarians among them) use that particular term.