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On today’s episode of “it’s always the ones you suspect most”: Robert John May, a South Carolina lawmaker and co-founder of the state’s Freedom Caucus, just got indicted on TEN counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. One of the loudest voices against “threats to children” is accused of being the threat. According to federal investigators, May allegedly used the app Kik to send and receive hundreds of files of child p*rnography, some involving kids as young as six. They traced the activity back to his home Wi-Fi and devices and there’s even evidence he planned trips to Colombia to exploit underage girls. He’s been arrested and denied bail.
Here’s the obvious: It’s never the people they villainize. It’s always the ones pointing the fingers, the ones screaming the loudest about “protecting the children.” That’s why we call them gaslighters. They demonize drag queens and the LGBTQIA+ community. Meanwhile, they’re the ones doing the most harm behind closed doors. Remember Dennis Hastert, the former GOP House Speaker who went to prison for sexually abusing [ [link removed] ] teenage boys while railing against same-sex marriage? Or Josh Duggar, the Christian family-values reality star turned [ [link removed] ] child porn convict? Or Ralph Shortey, a former Republican state senator who campaigned on “family values” and was later convicted [ [link removed] ] of child sex trafficking? And of course there’s Trump himself, who claimed he would "protect children” and labeled queer educators as threats, even as he was credibly accused of raping more than 20 women and was found liable in court for sexual abusing E. Jean Carroll.
Every time a story like this breaks, it’s a reminder that the real danger isn’t who they tell you to fear. It’s the people doing the finger-pointing. The louder the outrage, the more we should be checking their hard drives.
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