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)

This is a focus of categorism.