MEGA-THREAD: "Groomer" and "Grooming Gang" homophobic and racial scratching post

[Artaxerxes II]

https://www.newsweek.com/karen-berg-pro ... or-1875024:

A Democratic state senator from Kentucky has suggested providing "child sex dolls" to pedophiles in a bid to reduce the chance of them abusing children.

Speaking at the Kentucky General Assembly on Thursday, Senator Karen Berg said there was research suggesting the dolls "actually decrease their proclivity to go out and attack children." The remarks sparked an angry backlash on social media with one prominent commentator accusing Berg of "sexualizing kids and defending pedophiles."

The Context

There is an ongoing debate involving academics and politicians over whether child sex dolls could help prevent assaults on children or whether they act as a gateway for potential abusers. Republican Representative Dan Donovan has twice introduced legislation in the House that would make the "importation or transportation of child sex dolls" illegal, while others have called for an outright ban.

What We Know

During her address in the Kentucky General Assembly, Berg said: "I was completely unfamiliar with child sex dolls, so I had of course to Google it last night...

"But there are what they call 'MAPS,' Minor Attracted Persons and the limited amount of research that's done on these dolls suggests that they actually, for people who are attracted to minors, that these dolls actually decrease their proclivity to go out and attack children.

"That it actually gives them a release that makes them less likely to go outside of their home and what was interesting is the research did not support the same conclusions for people who were adult attracted using dolls."

Footage of Berg's remarks was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Robby Starbuck, a conservative-leaning activist who produced the Elon Musk-endorsed documentary The War on Children. The clip has so far received more than 595,000 views and 3,100 reposts from other X users.

Newsweek reached out to Senator Karen Berg via email at 6:50 a.m. ET on Friday. This article will be updated if she wants to comment.

Views

Berg's proposal sparked an angry reaction on social media, though some academics have suggested the idea should be taken seriously. In addition to posting the video, Starbuck commented: "Democrats like Karen are sexualizing kids and defending pedophiles. Pure evil, criminally stupid or both."

Indiana-based attorney Aleks Djuricic, who has over 9,000 X followers, responded: "The right thing to do would be to immediately remove her from the building and from office."

Paul A. Szypula, an X user with 124,000 followers, wrote: "Sen. Karen Berg should really get expelled from the Kentucky Senate for what she said here. It's gross and abusive towards children. Berg shouldn't be allowed near them."

Robin O'Brien, a social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia, posted: "White liberal women are destroying the American family single-handedly. In mom social groups they advocate for gender fluidity, divorcing a husband you're frustrated with and cutting off the grandparents if they don't share your politics."

During a 2018 interview with NBC News Ron Arkin, a professor of robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who specializes in human-robot interactions, said it isn't clear whether child sex bots could reduce offending by pedophiles.

"We don't know the answers yet. But recidivism in child sex offenders is a major problem in society that needs to be addressed, and there's a possibility that technology may be able to help with that," Arkin said.

[Jim Burton]

https://reduxx.info/non-binary-star-per ... -onlyfans/

Authorities were first tipped off to Maxwell’s activities in 2021 after police became aware he was selling illegal content on OnlyFans and JustForFans, two subscription-based platforms known for having large pornography marketplaces. Maxwell had been creating abuse content with a 16-year-old boy from Overland Park, Kansas, and selling videos of the abuse. Police state that Maxwell admitted to making between $3,000 and $10,000 per month from the content, which was also advertised on X (formerly Twitter) using incest themes.

Pro-c mask-slip. Basically, a 25 y/o gay was making consensual sex videos with his twink BF. 20 years... what do the anti-c's think of this?

[Phossu]

I think it's incredibly stupid to produce these videos and sell them on onlyfans. Not sure what they expected to happen.

From the sounds of it this would be considered a normal thing to do if one of them wasn't 16. Getting 20 years in federal prison for this is ridiculous, and even I'm willing to believe the 16 yo was fully on board with everything (I don't know that, I just assume that is likely since they produced and sold videos on a mainstream platform for months).

Also, this source sucks ass. TERF website throwing in jabs about gender affirming care and "selling dick popsicles at pride" only serves to advance their opinions on unrelated issues. And the sperm donor comment, what does that have to do with anything? This site just wants to frame them as a "degenerate".

[Jim Burton]

What they are saying is that when these gays let the mask slip, we can see them for what they truly are. Running dogs of the patriarchy.

Reduxx really hates gay men as well as transgender.

[terminally_unique]

https://reduxx.info/non-binary-star-per ... -onlyfans/

Authorities were first tipped off to Maxwell’s activities in 2021 after police became aware he was selling illegal content on OnlyFans and JustForFans, two subscription-based platforms known for having large pornography marketplaces. Maxwell had been creating abuse content with a 16-year-old boy from Overland Park, Kansas, and selling videos of the abuse. Police state that Maxwell admitted to making between $3,000 and $10,000 per month from the content, which was also advertised on X (formerly Twitter) using incest themes.

Pro-c mask-slip. Basically, a 25 y/o gay was making consensual sex videos with his twink BF. 20 years... what do the anti-c's think of this?

Well, considering that 16 is the age of consent in most states and many countries around the world, the sentence clearly doesn’t fit the “crime”. It’s a grave miscarriage of justice? Where is the LGBTQ+ community when one of their own is a legitimate victim of discrimination?

I think most young people outside the MAP community don’t realize that producing and distributing CP is a federal offense, and in terms of punishment they don’t make much of a distinction between a 16-year-old and a 6-year-old. I think they also need to be taught to keep their sex lives private.

[Jim Burton]

https://www.them.us/story/kids-online-s ... tq-content

This June, Democratic lawmakers marched in Pride parades and spoke on stages, vowing to protect our community and fight back against legislative attacks on queer youth. But some of these same lawmakers are actively pushing federal legislation that would cut LGBTQ+ youth off from resources, information, and communities that can save their lives. Currently, 38 Democratic senators support the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that is vocally opposed by many queer and trans youth, along with a coalition of human rights and LGBTQ+ groups.

[Artaxerxes II]

Now that Musk is boosting up decades-old "grooming gang" scandals and shoring up support for British convict and arch-anti Tommy Robinson (likely to re-direct MAGA's anger at Elo's support for H1-B visas), a new expose is going to be released on May 2024, accusing Tommy and co. of being "groomers" themselves, both in the political and sexual sense, as illustrated by the case of Tommy Damano admitting to having a hook-up with an alleged "grooming victim" of Telford: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/22/spec ... loitation/

I don't want to hype it up, but as a developing case it's worth keeping an eye on.

[BLueRibbon]

That's going to be juicy!

[Artaxerxes II]

Alright, found that investigative series expose, which I'll post per article here. Ready, set...

Go!

[Artaxerxes II]

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/01/spec ... survivors/:

Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’

Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening

Survivors of child sexual exploitation are being exploited by groups linked to the far-right, taking advantage of a lack of support for these vulnerable individuals, to further an anti-Muslim agenda around grooming gangs, a five-month special investigation by Byline Times has found.
This newspaper has spoken to survivors of CSE who were promised paid-for therapy, and were aware of others offered food, televisions and new clothes, by groups with links to the far-right, which then pushed survivors to speak out about their experiences of abuse at rallies.

The practice was described as “grooming” by both survivors themselves and several leading academics Byline Times spoke to.
Members of one group in Hull, with links to multiple neo-Nazi organisations and campaigners, told one survivor that child sexual exploitation was being carried out by “p***s”. After leaving the group, she faced a litany of violent threats and intimidation from its members.

Despite evidence, produced by the Home Office itself, showing that individuals from no single background or religion are more likely than another to commit child sexual exploitation crimes each year, narratives around ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ have become normalised among politicians and media outlets on the right.

Nazir Afzal, a former Crown Prosecution Service lead on child sexual exploitation and the prosecutor in the Rochdale paedophile gang case, told Byline Times that this is part of a wider pattern of the far-right weaponising the issue of ‘grooming gangs’ to further its own aims – with the narrative being used to recruit growing numbers of members and justify anti-migrant and anti-Muslim protests.
This investigation has uncovered that the far-right has been able to exploit a lack of prolonged support for often ignored survivors of child sexual exploitation by government and charities – which helps to explain why survivors are susceptible to any support such groups claim to offer.

Grooming and Threats

Lara (not her real name) did not know what to expect when she was told to attend a meeting by United Hull.
Having attempted to access NHS mental health support for “years and years”, a friend and another survivor of child sexual exploitation had told her that the group would be able to get her “long-term therapy and justice”.
She was desperately in need of support to combat the depression and suicidal feelings that were the result of the trauma of her abuse – abuse she said was never properly addressed by the police or other local authorities.

Despite not knowing much about the group, Lara decided to go along.
“I remember when I was getting in the taxi, I was literally praying, because I was finally going to get some help,” she told Byline Times. “I got to this pub, went in, and there were just lots and lots of men. They were there with a big banner.”
One of the men eventually approached Lara, telling her how “brave” she was for attending the meeting. He said the group would be able to organise psychological support for her.

But the reality of United Hull’s political beliefs quickly became more apparent.
Lara said: “They were saying abuse by Asian men was an Islamic thing, and that it was an attack on our country and our British values.” As she had been abused repeatedly by men from a number of different backgrounds and ethnicities, the narrative did not sit well with her.

“I remember going out for a cigarette and texting my mate to say ‘I don’t know about this’. And this guy came out and said ‘you’re a survivor aren’t you?’ and I said ‘yes’. And he said ‘we all know it’s the p***s doing this’.”
Lara decided to cut ties with the group. But, in the months and years since, she told this newspaper that she has seen a growing number of child sexual exploitation survivors in the area join it in search of support, justice and validation. These women have had therapy sessions paid for, received financial support, and been gifted televisions, trainers, new tracksuits, and more. Several eventually spoke out about their experiences of abuse at rallies.

Since CSE survivors are afforded lifelong anonymity by the courts, in order to give them complete control over whether they speak out or not, several experts expressed serious concerns about the potential re-traumatising impact of survivors speaking out at these rallies.
Byline Times understands that some of the women left the group after becoming aware of its political leanings.
Last year, multiple members and a leader of United Hull attended a rally held in Hull by the far-right group Patriotic Alternative.
Videos of the event show United Hull members standing on the other side of a police cordon chanting about refugees being “invaders”. They also screamed abuse at a CSE survivor who attended a counter-protest. Videos show that she is called a “c***” and a “bitch” repeatedly, and subject to thinly-veiled threats about the men knowing who she is and telling her to step away from the protection of the police.

Despite being a survivor of child sexual exploitation, Lara said she was called a “paedophile sympathiser” by far-right organisers of the rally for vocally opposing the idea of paedophile rings being a Muslim-specific problem.
“I’m scared in the house, these men know where I live,” she said. “Every time I think I’m going to do something about it, I think ‘they know where I live’.”
United Hull did not respond to Byline Times’ questions. The group has previously denied having far-right leanings. This newspaper understands that at least one leader of the group who was at the Patriotic Alternative rally left after his attendance was revealed.

A Wider Pattern

The story of United Hull is not the only one Byline Times was told.
Nick Lowles, founder and director of anti-extremism charity Hope Not Hate, said this type of targeting is a pattern he had encountered all too frequently as the “far-right have repeatedly exploited survivors for their political and personal gain”.
“In Telford, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as ‘Tommy Robinson’, has made a small fortune recounting the stories of young women sexually abused in the town,” he told Byline Times, citing findings from the biography he wrote on Yaxley-Lennon, Tommy.
“No convictions have resulted from his exposés and several of the women have experienced severe trauma resulting from his films, with little or no support offered. Worse still, at least two of Lennon’s aides have had sexual relations with survivors in Telford, one becoming involved in a violent and abusive relationship.”

Representatives for Tommy Robinson did not respond to Byline Times.

Last year, Nigel Bromage, founder of far-right deradicalisation charity Exit Hate and a former neo-Nazi, said that many of the more than 600 people the charity had worked with had a history of being victims of abuse.
“A lot of these really young girls have gone to the far-right for protection – which they have got – but then they’ve simply been misused and abused themselves,” he told the Media Storm podcast.

John North, another former member of the far-right, told the podcast that it targeted people perceived as having “vulnerabilities that they can exploit” when trying to recruit members. That could go beyond survivors of sexual abuse to include those with neurodiversity, people who are socially outcast, come from broken homes, or have just been through a divorce.

“As much as you don’t want to give these guys credit, it is very, very, very dangerous to just stereotype [the far-right] as being a bunch of drunken idiots. They’ve looked into, researched, and studied ways of radicalising people,” he said.
Anti-fascist protestor Dr Louise Raw, a victim of childhood abuse, was called “a n*nce and rape apologist” and sent death threats by the far-right, for speaking out against its rallies.

When Yaxley-Lennon held a rally in Telford on grooming gangs, Raw was one of the counter-protestors. In a speech, she shared her experiences of abuse with the crowd. “I was just so angry about the far-right claiming to be the ones who care about victims and anti-fascists being labelled ‘paedophile protectors’,” she said.

Dr Raw told Byline Times that a friend who had been subject to “years of grooming” was contacted by several prominent far-right figures with promises to raise money for her to receive therapy. When their political persuasions became apparent, she tried to cut ties.
“At this point, these ‘caring’ and ‘victim-supporting’ people began to threaten her and say she should kill herself and that her children should be drowned,” Dr Raw recalled. “The far-right is cynically taking advantage of child sexual exploitation survivors. They are using victims to further their racist agendas.”