Apollo18 said:Yes, the anime community accepts pedophiolia, the same way as the furry scene accepts beastiality, and the far right accepts white supremacists-
Of course, members of all those groups will deny those associations... but with very few exceptions, the members of those groups who aren't actively into pedophilia/beastility/white supremacy, will happily turn a blind eye to all their peers who openly ARE into those things.
Where else except the anime scene could people openly buy, sell, and have whole businesses based on porn artwork of children having sex? (You'd get curb-stomped in 5 minutes if you set up a business like that at a record-collectors fair or a football game, yet those stalls are the norm at every anime convention.) Or, what other scene makes cutesie euphemisms like "lolis" and "lolicon", to avoiding offending pedos with the wild assumption that people who fantasize about sex with children, are "pedos"?
On this very website, there are multiple shows, a whole genre, about adults having sex with children, where the shows description specifies that the kid is 8 or 9 or 10 years old... Of course, (because the anime scene instinctively, actively protects pedos...), people will inevitably say "but they're just fictional- No REAL child is harmed!!" But so what? In normal society, if someone admitted "I fantasize about fuucking imaginary 8yo's", they'd get their head caved in, regardless of whether a real child had been harmed, yet, or not. Every single anime fan knows why these people want to watch hentai of an adult fuucking a 6yo, yet ask them "should we do something about the pedo problem in the anime fandom?" and they'll say "No, why would do that? There's no problem! Everything's fine!!" (But then 5 minutes later, when someone asks "Why do you think the anime scene has a reputation for pedophilia?" they'll act like they have no idea...)
The anime scene is an absolute safe-haven for pedos. The fandom actively, passionately defends pedos; People will openly admit to being pedos here (including in this very thread), and no-one will say a word... But if you start to CRITICISE pedos in the fandom, you'll get swarmed by people absuing you, calling you names, and defending the pedophiles.