Meaning of paedophile-phobia | Babel Free

Definitions

Commonwealth form of pedophilophobia.

Commonwealth, alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“Leadership gurus, self-help manuals, management consultants, thinktanks, alternative medicine, postmodernist academics who say all truth is relative, creation science, horoscopes, Holocaust-deniers, "trickledown" economists, paranoid Yankee imperialists, paranoid anti-Americans, al Qaeda and its Western fellow-travellers, The Third Way, globalisers and anti-globalisers, apocalyptic world-history trendspotters, therapy-addicts, Di-mania, Bible Code crackers, New Agers, paedophile-phobia, people who think they've been abducted by aliens, the National Lottery, the dotcom bubble — these are just some of the manifestations of the crazy irrationality that, [Francis] Wheen reveals, has run rampage over the modern world.”

“When did child abduction become a spectator sport? Who benefits from seeing daily pictures of Madeleine McCann’s distraught mother clutching her missing child’s toy? And why are many experts and authorities preying on our fears to promote their own agenda? We have witnessed two different operations around the abduction of the three-year-old girl from an Algarve holiday apartment. There has been the secretive Portuguese investigation, apparently marred by infighting between police organisations. And then there has been the public “who’s to blame?” inquiry, where campaigners and pundits vie to use the case as a vehicle for point-scoring and finger-pointing. Some crusaders blame the Portuguese for not sharing Britain’s heightened state of paedophile-phobia.”

“But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived. I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London. These days, paedophile-phobia has robbed children of these ancient freedoms.”

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