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[feotakahari]

 You know, there was a really long time when abuse survivors were theoretically immune to “pedophile” allegations. In practice, people just said that they were lying about being abused, but no one ever came out and said that abuse survivors are pedophiles. Yet at the same time, I found it completely unsurprising when someone finally posted that you’re a pedophile whether you’re an abuse survivor or not.

There’s always been this thing where people qualify their accusations of white bigotry with “not you.” You’re not a white bigot because you’re disabled. You’re not a white bigot because you’re gay. But when I finally saw a post about how you’re a bigot regardless of whatever other boxes you can be thrown in, I couldn’t find it at all surprising. The damage had long since been done.

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[wingedcatgirl]

Once I put together that "survivors are ~allowed~ to like problematic things if it's to cope" and "survivors should never be obligated to disclose that they're survivors" could only be met simultaneously by discarding the idea that liking problematic things is bad in the first place, I immediately realized that most people would not do that.