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Australia's most senior Catholic jailed for sexual abuse
Original: those bloody trans peeps, eh? such a disgusting dangerous dire public menace!!! https://www. smh.com.au/national/western
A senior Catholic figure in Western Australia has been convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to more than six years in prison. The post sharing the news uses heavy sarcasm, mocking rhetoric that paints transgender people as a public danger by contrasting it with the church leader's conviction. Commenters are highlighting the irony of abuse within religious institutions while minorities are targeted as threats.
Why now: The sentencing revives debate over institutional abuse in the Catholic Church and rhetoric that shifts moral panic onto transgender people.
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- those bloody trans peeps, eh? such a disgusting dangerous dire public menace!!! https://www. smh.com.au/national/western-au stralia/australia-s-senior-most-catholic-convicted-of-sexual-abuse-jailed-for-more-than-six-years-20261007-p613c7.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rs… · MsDropbear42@infosec.space · 8
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