Why are you defending him if you don't know the true extent of his crimes?

I never defended him or any abusive people in this thread. My qualms have always been with your word-choice. Including labeling people as pedophiles or "pedophile defenders" as insults to dismiss them. It's hurtful and harmful. It's wrong to attack people like that and also to conflate "pedophile" with "child-predator" or "child-rapist". I refuse to hate people for immutable traits like that.

Yet I see that on fedi every time I browse it. It's been bothering me for weeks and today was the day I randomly decided to say something about it. Unlike my meme posts, I didn't make a structured post about it. It's hard to care what people think of me sometimes because I see so many of you as hateful to your core (at least that's what comes across to me). I've spent lots of time trying to be thoughtful in my responses to people in various threads, trying to get people to understand that bodyshaming is unhelpful and not nice, while trying not to seem like the stereotype they're bound to ignore. Ditto the topics discussed in my own threads about computer/tech stuff. I do tend to try to choose my words carefully and take my time responding to everything as thoughtfully as possible.

This thread was different, partially because I feel like I'm in the presence of people who should be more able to understand and be more likely to be agreeable than the one with the bodyshaming stuff, while knowing that it's likely to feel like shouting at a wall. People follow the numbers, what they perceive to be majority opinions, and most people don't care to rock the boat about things. My view of most people on this platform was already so low that I realized I lose nothing at all by saying whatever feels right in this moment. I'm kinda surprised anyone agreed with me at all, based on my own experiences and what I've seen of this place over the years.

It's not that I enjoy talking about these subjects

I think you do. I think you like to be provocative with what you say and how you say it because you want to get a rise out of people and stoke conversations about it whenever possible. That is what I see of you in this thread. Nothing I say has mattered to you at all. We both have mentioned that we do not value each other's opinions and yet you persist because you like to do so.