Buzzwords are shortcuts to meaning; their obfuscatory nature makes them popular with those who would instead use them as cudgels than have a real conversation.
If we were to ask someone using either of those terms if they are trying to keep kids safe, their answer would be a wholehearted YES! Fantastic. We have the same goal; keeping kids safe.
The next obvious question is, where ought we focus our efforts on keeping kids safe? The answer is obvious, too: start with the worst offenders. Who does the evidence point to as the worst offenders? Public schools? Liberal elites (another buzzword)? Hollywood? Congress? Indoctrination/Grooming antagonists, would again shout YES!!! But is that where the evidence of the worst offenders points?
The truth, sadly, is the opposite. The world’s largest organizations giving safe harbor to pedophiles are none of those institutions. The reality is the largest organizations sexually harming children are bastions of conservatism: churches.
New Orleans archbishop: local Catholic institutions must help with cost of clergy abuse claims, September 9, 2023
Australian ex-priest has prison sentence extended to 40 years for molesting 72nd child victim, August 15, 2023
Netflix Trailer Exposes Boy Scouts Abuse Scandal: “This Is an Abomination”, (82k documented abuse claims) August 14, 2023
Sex Abuse Report Casts Shadow Over Pope’s Portugal Visit, July 29, 2023
More than 450 Catholic clergymen abused nearly 2,000 children in Illinois, state report says, May 23, 2023
Abuse victims set to sue Baltimore Archdiocese, May 9, 2023
Report details ‘staggering’ church sex abuse in Maryland, April 6, 2023
International Churches of Christ covers up sexual abuse of minors, March 1, 2023
Wave of child sexual abuse claims could bankrupt San Diego diocese, February 10, 2023
A new report finds decades of alleged sexual abuse by priests in Catholic churches in Kansas, January 15, 2023
FBI opens investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans, June 29, 2022
Sex abuse suits pouring in as [California]’s Catholic leaders seek relief from highest court, May 23, 2022
The global scale of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, October 5, 2021 (Victims: France, 216K, Australia: 4K, Germany: 3.6K, U.S.: 11K, Ireland: 15K)
The French Catholic church acknowledges a staggering pattern of sexual abuse: Hundreds of thousands were victimised over 70 years, October 9, 2021
Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy after sex abuse lawsuits 2,000 reported cases of abuse, February 18, 2020
Almost 1,700 priests and clergy accused of sex abuse are unsupervised, Oct 4, 2019
The Southern Baptist Convention … 380 allegations against church leaders spanning 20 states, February 11, 2019
The grand jury report about Catholic priest abuse in Pennsylvania shows the church is a criminal syndicate, August 15, 2018
And that’s just headlines in less than the past 6 years.
Cases of sexual abuse in the American film industry are non-hyperbolically a drop in the bucket. Misinformation campaigns by conservatives paint liberals as the sources of abuse rather than their own so-called virtuous institutions.