The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.

They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.

They raped them.

Sex implies consent.

The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

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  1. Why are they treating the girls like they’re bad people & did these bad things because they wanted to do them? I don’t like men who are fine with doing bad things to protect themselves at the expense of their victims! It’s a cowardly act to blame their victims! This whole thing has been mishandled!

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  2. The MEN in the Epstein Files RAPED 5-6th grade CHILDREN.

    Regardless of political affiliation, they must all be exposed and prosecuted, beginning with Trump.

    How many have daughters? How many are Republican White Supremacist Conservatives hiding behind bibles? How many are educated liberals?

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  3. Wondering these hotels + the devil's private island have a silent investor whom the old man is trying to protect!#Release the relevant files

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  4. Were you expecting cowed and complicit paedophile apologists to use honest language to describe the behaviour of the people who own them?

    Asking for a friend.

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  5. R*pe is a trigger word for some people. So they avoid saying it. Ppl should be aware that you can't 'have sex with underage girls', anyway. 'Minors' is a better word than children, btw, at least for me.

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  6. Statutory rape is a fucking FELONY. Period. Only MAGA Christians excuse this horrible behavior, because at least abortion is banned.

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  7. With the new revelation that a former New York Times reporter could’ve had access to photos of Trump with underage girls in their underwear but chose not to expose him says it all about the so-called soft language that the media are continuing to use. Fuck that shit.

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  8. Average people who have been acclimated to Trump’s sexism and abuse need to be shocked - every news story about this should need a trigger warning. Language that minimizes the horrors of his actions protects him more than it protects media consumers’ sensibilities.

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  9. Agree 💯

    Also, it doesn’t matter if they were 5 or 15

    If they fought it or came back or took money or posed for pictures

    A child cannot consent to sex with an adult, full stop

    Legally and developmentally, they cannot

    That’s why we have laws based on data from science that studies the brain

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  10. All. Of. Them.

    I don’t care if they’re Democrats, Independents, or Republicans!

    Out, arrest, prosecute, jail, shame, and make them pay for what they did to these children.

    Children! Teens are children. They were not prostitutes or consenting adults! It is and should remain a crime to rape them.

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  11. Also people need to understand that coercion of young/vulnerable people is still not informed consent, just because they may not have been screaming no or stop and return to their abuser it does not equal consent.

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  12. #TrumpGuiltyAsFuck #TrumpRapedChildren #TrumpBelongsInPrison #TrumpDOJFBIcoverUp #TrumpIsAPedophile #TrumpIsPartnerInEpsteinFiles #TrumpForPrison #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ExposeThemAll #LockThemAllUp #Epstein #CrimesAgainstHumanity #SerialChildRapist #ChildSexTrafficking #EpsteinsBFF #Epstein

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  13. Many platforms won't allow you to say the words, or will ban you if you do.

    Rapist. Nazi. Terrorist.

    Maybe it is just a coincidence that the three words are a ven diagram label for maga.

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  14. "The dog that didn't bark."

    "Our little secret."

    "Age is an Enigma."

    "I hear he likes them on the younger side."

    "I wish her well!"

    Republicans know Trump was raping kids with Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell. They just don't care. 😡

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  15. You notice how the right exaggerates everything? ‘Clinton was part of a pedophile ring that drank children’s blood to remain immortal’

    Now receipts show Dolt 45 was involved in pedophilia and now it’s all ‘sexual indiscretions’

    🤣 deeply unserious people only concerned w terrorizing Americans

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  16. The msm & Fox crowd are steadily trying to frame the trafficking of children as “having sex” with precocious 14-15 year olds…bc, of course, it’s hard to rationalize a business that sold 5-10 year olds to rich pedophiles & then used the videos to blackmail them…see this disgrace for wtf it was-see it

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  17. Men always get a PASS!

    Women are discarded, diminished, & reminded we are disposable.

    EPSTEIN is the narrative, headline, & story while the female victims are forgotten!

    I’m so sick of this shit playing out over & over again!!!

    I’m fucking angry at this misogynistic storyline.

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  18. The amount of money laundered is staggering. (Most likely from blackmail.) But you know they had to have abused a lot of children who are not speaking out. 1000+

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  19. Part of the abuse is telling girls that if they walked themselves into that situation it was different from forcible abduction and therefore they were complicit in their own abuse. Which is why these girls commit suicide at higher rates...as their abusers desire.

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  20. By describing Epstein‘s victims as underage women, that reduces their value to simply being old enough to consent to sex.

    Think about it. When was the last time you heard of a teenage boy described as an underage male?

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  21. there’s not a republican alive who cares even slightly about victims of systemic rape

    if anything they’re righteously pissed that you keep telling them they can’t buy & sell & breed 13-year-old girls like the patriarchs do in their favorite stone age human trafficking manual

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  22. Children can’t consent

    You will start to hear a lot about teen prostitutes or teen sex workers

    They don’t exist They are children who are repeatedly raped, & fed so they can be raped again. That’s not a profession that survival

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  23. One of the worst forms of rape, men with superior power and influence raping children who had neither, promising them something, kids who would not likely be believed. Victims reported they and family were threatened if they spoke of what was done to them. Varying degrees of vile, this is very low.

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  24. Also, it’s not just important that underage girls were raped. Women were also trafficked and raped by Epstein and Ghislaine. I don’t want some of these guys to get a pass because it can’t be proved he was given a girl. Hardly any of the women on his properties were there doing upfront sex work.

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  25. Another feature of these rapes which is being understated is that of age difference. The girls were too young; the men, mostly, were TOO OLD. Creepily old. Men like Dershowitz and Giuliani are really repulsive. No woman, unless she (for some reason) was fond of them, could tolerate their proximity.

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  26. A long pattern of behavior — offering respect & padded language for corrupt, criminal people & actions, while tearing down people who have fought for justice & worked for decades to help everyone.

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  27. This applies also to the women: when you are trafficked, conned, held captive under blackmail ad well as financial and psychological pressure, it's rape. Rape doesn't hurt any less just because you are "of age".

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  28. Correct. But it’s called Statutory rape not just rape which is the crime of sex with a minor when the sex is agreed to by both parties, not forced. The reason why it is considered rape is because the minor is considered to be too young to legally consent to have sex or sexual contact.

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  29. They didn’t just rape them. They drugged them. They plied them with alcohol. They forced them to perform perverted sex acts. They beat them. They starved them. The worst crimes imaginable.

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  30. Amazing the mind-distortion field MAGAs experience when anyone comes near their power fetishes & shibboleths.

    Rape magically isn’t rape anymore and perpetrators are admired as culture-war heroes.

    Sick & sickening.

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  31. What’s an “underage girl”. Aren’t all “girls” under the age of consent “underage”? So just “girls”. They sold girls for sex.

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  32. "These men incl Trump" are depraved sex offenders raping children with impunity.

    Each time it's denied is a fresh act of rape on those girls, now women.

    This is not going away.!!!!! It cannot.

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  33. I agree. If a minor engages in sex with another, it is considered rape even if the minor gave consent. A minor cannot give informed consent.

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  34. I agree completely. On FB, someone quoted Mike Johnson saying calling a Trump a pedophile was disrespectful. I said, "how does child rapist sound, better?" And two ppl jumped in my shit, told me to grow up and get off the thread. I was astounded!

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  35. This is so prevalent in the news media and is so annoying. It's evidence of a male dominated sphere that the actions of the men are given primacy over the trauma of the girls. These are rape victims being denied existence by the very people you would hope would report it.

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  36. I'll help you out. Powerful misogynistic cruel sadistic weak pathetic men serially raped children as young as 12 years old & tortured them as they raped them. They trafficked them to other men. Ghislane Maxwell participated in threesomes as they raped the children. They abused & ruined their lives.

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  37. Its because they are rich they are given that ease of wording. This case is as much about poverty and its exploitation by the wealthy as it is about rape. Make no mistake there are 2 justice systems in the USA one for the poor and one for the rich. We are viewing that to technicolor right now.

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  38. Fuck Donald Trump and all those who are involved. I just can’t eat properly because someone broke me in half. I never support the GOPneckians and never will. I will go to Japan instead, never will I ever witnessed a second heartbreak worse than the first one!

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  39. Get ready for the Megyn Kelly angle.

    “I just wonder how many of these young women knew exactly what they were doing. Wannabe models, no one actually forced them to show up at his glamorous events. Maybe that’s why AG Bondi and FBI Dir. Patel did not find them credible and closed the investigation.”

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  40. People maybe need to be reminded that Ghislaine and Epstein gave sedatives to the girls, recruited some of them from other countries and then took their passports so they couldn't leave the island, and gave them birth control pills.

    Even if there are photos of them smiling, they were being abused.

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  41. There's no line in the sand or low bar for any of these richie riches ..... are any of these minors missing?

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  42. As a survivor of sex trafficking from a very young age (4 to 7), language matters. The reason I couldn't say anything at the time, though I considered telling my parents who I hoped would be able to help me, was because I realized I didn't have the language to describe the torture which I endured.

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  43. An INNOCENT man would have released the files by now, especially after literally CAMPAIGNING on doing just that! Instead we paid a THOUSAND FBI agents around the clock for weeks to cover his name! What part aren't we understanding exactly! He's not innocent! He is a PEDOPHILE!

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  44. Not underage women or girls. Just girls. Children. A longtime pet peeve of mine. language matters.

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  45. To them consent is implied because they weren't kicking and screaming 'no'.

    (The girls being too scared to death to fight them off doesn't make any difference to them.)

    These males aren't men. They are the farthest thing from it.

    Frontal lobotomy and castration is the best thing to happen.

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  46. You are absolutely right.

    This isn't a matter of semantics; it's a matter of truth and justice. The language used to describe these crimes is critically important.

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  47. No consent no sex, simpel, very simpel! If you are an adult women. But, when you'r a young girl, maybe drugged, you'r in no position to say no! So rape, under those circumstances is even worse when the man is a grown-up like trump and epstein

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  48. Agree.

    And if I see “underage women” one more time…

    They’re teenagers; they’re underaged girls; you could even, technically, call them “children.”

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  49. Agree!! Even when reporting there was no consent, there’s way too much use of “molestation” when rape is the word. Grooming, raping, trafficking, raping, molesting, raping

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  50. Many were at risk girls or from families who did not have the resources to to go after Epstein. This was discerned by Monster Maxwell. Preyed on the least among us. Children with little to no safety net.

    In VG's book..it was beating, sodomy, rape. NOT A FREAKING HOLIDAY! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

    A new book tells the story of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of many victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year. Her posthumous memoir explores her resilience ...

    Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir exposes abuse by powerful men

    A new book tells the story of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of many victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year. Her posthumous memoir explores her resilience ...

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  51. It's with everything. Occupation is a dispute. CNN actually called the Palestinian the settlers. Corporate media outlets are re-writing history through this bullshit.

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  52. A rapist who is in the habit of raping little girls, wouldn't stop when he had daughters or granddaughters. What say you, Ivanka?

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