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[–] driftwood@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

Yes and he was convicted before he was in some of the stuff you might know him from iirc 🤢

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[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Not really. He had a prolific career before the scandal broke in 2002 and he's been in maybe six projects in the decades since. Ferris Bueller, Beetlejuice, and Amadeus were all before the scandal.

Just to provide context, he paid a 14-year-old to pose for photos. There were no allegations of physical contact and the victim was not a prepubescent child (as implied by the term pedophile). Still inappropriate, criminal, and all-around fucked up.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What’s the phrase? Something like it’s hard to explain the difference between a pedophile and a phebophile without sounding like a pedophile.

An arbitrary distinction when it colloquially means, attracted to children/minors.

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[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

People's minds go to the worst possible scenario when you say "convicted pedophile," or at least mine did. I don't think the distinction between diddling elementary schoolers and taking pictures of a high schooler is arbitrary.

I'm not defending Jones, he can go to hell. I'm just adding context to a thread that contained misinformation.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 4 hours ago

He's a child predator. Most child predators aren't even attracted to children under 16 (16 and 17 year olds look like adults)