History Main / AbominationAccusationAttack

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* One activist who got an essay published in a Swedish newspaper argued the point that all white men who are in relationships with Asian women are actually pedophiles. Because Asians are smaller then western women, or something like that. The author was, of course, a male Asian. And he later got arrested for stalking and arson against his (white) Swedish ex-girlfriend. Classy.

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* In the ''DiagnosisMurder'' episode "An Education in Murder" when Mark Sloan confronts the killer in the high school hallway and accidentally rips the sleeve off her shirt she threatens to report him for sexual assault if he doesn't drop the investigation.

* After the Infamous chris-chan was kicked out of his favorite game store for being all-around creepy, He accused the owner of being a child molester. Fortunately, no one believed him.

* In ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'', [[WellIntentionedExtremist Thaddeus]] does this a lot, whether he's arguing that gay men are [[HeteronormativeCrusader too sex-obsessed]] to think straight, that a refugee belongs to a "particularly pernicious cult" (it's actually pretty benign), or that ''all'' refugees from an oppressive regime should be assumed to be spies-in-waiting (when, in fact, he is himself a former refugee from said oppressive regime. Unfortunately, dissuading him is pretty much impossible, since he sincerely believes all of it, despite the fact that pretty much everyone else thinks he's cuckoo.

* When Madoka starts to ask questions about the whole MagicalGirl schtick in ''MedukaMeguca'', Mami's response is to accuse her of smoking, with Sayaka going along with it for whatever the reason. By Episode 3, they've ramped it up to accusing her of doing hard drugs like heroin and meth.

* In a Red Skelton movie he is fooled into thinking that carnival barker/huckster Walter Slezak is a psychiatrist. When he spots Slezak making his spiel he slowwwwwly begins to put it together. Before Skelton can say anything Slezak points at him and yells "Arrest that man. He insulted the American flag." Cops immediately grab Skelton and drag his off as he protests that he never did that.

Please note that [[FalseRapeAccusation false accusations of actual rape]] or child sexual abuse is {{Frameup}} rather than this trope. Same goes for non-sexual examples, such as accusing someone of ''eating'' children in a literal non-metaphorical way: It's this trope if the accusation is that he ''will'' eat your children, or has eaten children in general. If it's trying to pin the disappearance of the local missing kid on him, then it's {{Frameup}} instead. Of course, honest & sane accusations have nothing at all to do with this trope: Just like {{Frameup}}, it's entirely about the malicious kind.

* When suffering through an intervention to find out why she hates ''TheLittleMermaid'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick at one point ends up pointing a finger at her friends and calling them "Disney zealots".

* ''NotAlwaysRight'' has [[http://notalwaysright.com/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-embarrassments/13072 one episode]] with a woman going totally overboard with this trope as she visits the movies and decides that she owns the place and has the right to deny random strangers the seats they have bought, all in the name of ThinkOfTheChildren - accusing two random young women of being potential child molesters and thus disqualified from being treated with basic human respect.
* At least one IRC chat channel, probably many, used to have as its policy to publish a little message to everyone in the channel every time a banned person tried to enter the channel and get auto-kicked: a message explaining that the user is a pedophile and that such people are not welcome here - and this procedure applied to everyone, no matter why they were banned. People could get banned for things such as being AFK when an admin wanted to chat, and would invariably be casually branded "pedophile" for it.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel Blood libel]] is the term for the practice of accusing social, ethnic, or religious groups of ritualistic crimes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, or well poisoning.

* ''TheWizard'' features a trio of children who basically run away from home so that one of them can join a video game tournament on the other side of the country. They're chased by a [[DesignatedVillain truant officer with shades of bounty hunter]]. When he finally corners them, the girl of the trio shouts out "HE TOUCHED MY BREAST!" It's PlayedForLaughs, but then the FridgeHorror hits for what this will probably do to the man for the rest of his life, [[HeroAntagonist just for doing his job]] and unintentionally looking a little creepy while doing it.

* In ''MonkeyDust'', the Paedofinder General is universally feared for his ability to call anyone a paedophile (and then get the randomly accused person killed.) For example, he kills the fiddler in FiddlerOnTheRoof for fiddling on the roof, implying that it must be an euphemism for paedophilia.

* In ''{{Exiern}}'', Tiffany despise Theresa, among other things because Theresa is happy with having been magically turned into a woman. In one very public argument, with the population of Theresa's home city as audience, Tiffany talks as if it was a fact and common knowledge that Theresa is a PedophilePriest child-molester. Of course, this smear has no basis other than Tiffany's own malice - and she eventually [[HeelRealization realize what a bitch she has been]].

* ''NotAlwaysRight'' has [[http://notalwaysright.com/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-embarrassments/13072 one episode]] with a woman going totally overboard with this trope as she visit the movies and decide that she own the place and have the right to deny random strangers the seats they have bought, all in the name of ThinkOfTheChildren - accusing two random young women of being potential child molesters and thus disqualified from being treated with basic human respect.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel Blood libel]] is the term for the practice of accusing social or religious groups of ritualistic crimes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, or well poisoning.

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* In a Red Skelton movie he is fooled into thinking that carnival barker/huckster Walter Slezak is a psychiatrist. When he spots Slezak making his spiel he slowwwwwly begins to put it together. Before Skelton can say anything Slezak points at him and yells "Arrest that man. He insulted the American flag." Cops immediately grab Skelton and drag his off as he protests that he never did that.

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* In ''{{Exiern}}'', Tiffany despise Theresa, among other things because Theresa is happy with having been magically turned into a woman. In one very public argument, with the population of Theresa's home city as audience, Tiffany talks as if it was a fact and common knowledge that Theresa is a PedophilePriest child-molester. Of course, this smear has no basis other than Tiffany's own malice - and she eventually [[HeelRealization realize what a bitch she has been]].
* ''Single Asian Female'' (written by a single Asian male) spreads the message that if a white man shows interest in an adult Asian woman, it means he's actually a pedophile.

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* ''NotAlwaysRight'' has [[http://notalwaysright.com/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-embarrassments/13072 one episode]] with a woman going totally overboard with this trope as she visit the movies and decide that she own the place and have the right to deny random strangers the seats they have bought, all in the name of ThinkOfTheChildren - accusing two random young women of being potential child molesters and thus disqualified from being treated with basic human respect.

* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston doesn't believe that the Beast even exists. When Belle proves him wrong, he changes his position to accusing him of eating children - never mind that the beast has been around for a long time and the only person who had been missing was Belle herself!
** Or that the villagers believed Gaston over Belle despite that Gaston was proven wrong immediately beforehand.

* One activist who got an essay published in a swedish newspaper argued the point that all white men who are in relationships with Asian women are actually pedophiles. Because Asians are smaller then western women, or something like that. The author was, of course, a male Asian. And he later got arrested for stalking and arson against his (white) Swedish ex-girlfriend. Classy.

* In the first issue of ''{{Lucifer}}'', a young woman gets angry with the protagonist when he doesn't stop her from touching some wet paint, explaining only afterwards that it's actually blood. In retaliation, she threaten to call the cops and claim that he's a pedophile who has kidnapped her.

* One activist who got an essay published in a swedish newspaper argued the point that all white men who are in relationships with Asian women are actually pedophiles. Because Asians are smaller then western women, or something like that. The author was, of course, a male Asian. And he later got arrested for stalking and arson against his (white) swedish ex-girlfriend. Classy.

* At least one IRC chat channel, probably many, used to have as it's policy to publish a little message to everyone in the channel every time a banned person tried to enter the channel and get auto-kicked: A message explaining that the user is a pedophile and that such people are not welcome here - and this procedure applied to everyone, no matter why they was banned. People could get banned for things such as being AFK when an admin wanted to chat, and would invariably be casually branded "pedophile" for it.