Pedoparanoia

Categorism focused on targeting people with accusations of being a pedophile, a child-molester, or some kind of unspecified-yet-serious danger to children. Baseless accusations of epidemic Child Sex Abuse has been compared to the “red scare” of the fifties and to the witchhunts of the sixteenhundreds.

Note the difference between condemning actual child-molesters for their actual crimes, and to assign such criminal status to people who do not do such things: Unlike the supernatural harm attributed to witches (see “witchparanoia”), the harm of Child Sex Abuse is a very real problem. (In Swedish: pedoparanoia)

Pedopatanoia is often an Foci_of_categorism#Intersectional_foci_of_categorism|intersectional focus of categorism]], where various minority groups gets conflated with pedophiles.

Homophobic Pedoparanoia

Constructing consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex as if it would somehow be the same thing as molesting a child, or claiming/implying that being attracted to people of the same sex would mean to also be attracted to children.

Kinkophobic Pedoparanoia

Constructing consensual sexual relations between adults who are into kink as if it would somehow be the same thing as molesting a child, or claiming/implying that being attracted to people in for example a sadomasochistic dynamic would mean to also be attracted to children.