A few weeks ago on Discord Max linked an article from an alt-right news site which claimed "Pizzagate" was real and almost every article was accusing some opponent of being a pedophile. That was the first time I noticed that the alt-right seemed kind of obsessed with branding its opponents pedophiles.
Then we had a member associated with the alt-right leave after we refused to concede that Hollywood had a gay pedophile problem. At the time, I took it as a reiteration of the old libel about gay men being sexual predators, but now I wonder if it's not actually the new libel about liberals being pedophiles.
And just a few days ago, DP shared this article on Discord. (One thing it demonstrates is that the alt-right's love of false flags has reached truly insane levels. They're not just posing as antifa members now, they're posing as antifa NAMBLA members.) The article discusses how a certain faction of the alt-right is obsessed with the idea that liberals are pedophiles. The explanation given is "it's revenge for calling us Nazis but it's also kind of true."
And I'm pretty sure that it's true only in the sense that child molesters are part of every group of any size; I see no evidence that it's a bigger problem with liberals in this regard. All the evidence is anecdotal (and if you want to play at that game: Dennis Hastert molested young boys, Roy Moore assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl, and Joe Arpaio refused to investigate sex crimes against minors while having at least two deputies who committed such crimes on his payroll), and I know of no data one way or the other. As such, a reasonable prior is that it's equally common across the political spectrum; if anything I would expect it to be more common in communities that encourage shame and silence around sex.
DP has said repeatedly that it's projection, and I think for a lot of them it probably is. The alt-right has its roots on 4chan, where the sharing of child porn apparently used to be a big thing, based on articles I've read on "Pizzagate." And a lot of alt-right types do seem to be kind of creepily into girls. And then others are clearly running a smear campaign. But I think some people on the alt-right are genuinely convinced that the left has a pedophile problem, and unfortunately we recently lost the one member of TCS best suited to shed light on why they think this.
Still, I thought I'd start a thread on this; at the very least the alt-right's obsession with smearing its opponents as pedophiles merits calling out.