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[–] jakwithoutac@feddit.uk 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Oh ffs is anybody on TV not a paedo?!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Attenborough, I'd wager. That's about the only one I'd be confident of. Probably Brian Blessed as well.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tony Hart, although I hear Morph has a tell-all autobiography in the pipeline...

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to hear anything bad about Tony Hart, Johnny Morris, Johnny Ball, or Brian Cant. Oh, or John Noakes. All the others are a bit sus though.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t want to hear anything bad about ... Johnny Ball

How bad is "bad" here?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A quick wikipediaing suggests climate change denial which is disappointing but I can live with it. Plus something about Strictly and accusing a dancer of faking an injury. Is that it?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's mainly the climate change denial that annoys me as a lot of kids got their love of science and maths from him. However, I find the complaining about CRB checks to be a concern - I can't see any reason why he'd object to them.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The main pain with CRB checks is having to go through it for every thing. You can't just apply once and get the certificate and I don't think the organisation your applying from makes a material difference to the checks that are done.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 3 months ago

There are also good cops 🤡

[–] Mex@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not yet convicted, so don't jump to conclusions, but it's not looking good for him.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago

Obviously "innocent until proven guilty" but as it is for manufacturing child abuse images then they must have some pretty damning evidence.

[–] jakwithoutac@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Normally I’d whole heartedly agree, but to be accused of anything even close to CSAM means he is likely one of:

  • guilty, and not smart enough to hide it
  • innocent, and incredibly stupid (considering his position in media)
  • the victim of a very dark Wile E. Cayote frame up job

Guess we’ll all find out soon enough.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

faie point on the invidividual level but let's be real...

Catholic Church, Hollywood, YouTube celebs, politicians, police, prisons...

There is a pattern in there. It is getting tiring of normies denying it

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Huw Edwards a Presbyterian, though?

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no idea... it aint like other religions are any different, Catholics just got a world wide pedophile protection racket going so it is easy to point to them.

but all religions are like this, mohamed was a pedo according their own writings lol

southern baptists in southern US keep getting caught raping children...

religion is cancer that enables access and cover.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure rape exists outside of religious institutions... Such as schools... Which enable both access and cover 🙄 does this make education a cancer? What about hospitals? Or media corporations? Or governments? Or even families?

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes exactly until these failed institutions start acting in good faith... ie hold perps accountable instead of covering for them, they should treated as cancer that they are.

Hospitals are notorious for misconduct, albeit not child rape. Just generic corpo trash behavior extracting money while people die.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

There are also plenty of churches which do hold people accountable. Those just don't make the headlines or hit the atheist talkshows.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

Timmy Mallett.

Because if you were on Operation Yewtree, you'd for sure have had a look at his history. The fact that they've found nothing indicates the man is clean.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Chris Morris is presumably on some weird shit we don't even have words for. Just a whole other wavelength.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Only fools and horses would believe that