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"Sex-Trafficking Champion" in title is very unclear and implies the opposite of possible intent. (He claims to fight sex-trafficing, not to be really good at sex-trafficing.)
Sorry, we aren't supposed to change headlines. Honestly, the important thing here is that this guy was a conservative icon and his movie was touted as being "suppressed" by the "woke."
I did not mean to diss you. My insult was fully intended for the original editor that titled the story. Sorry for not being clear.
Thank you for following the posting rules, and for spreading this news.
No worries.
But the headline in the article is “ ‘Sound of Freedom’ Hero Resigned From Own Organization Over Shocking Sexual Misconduct Allegations: Report” so you changed it?
No. I clicked the automatic headline thingy when I submitted the article and that's what came up.
Oh ok. I haven’t submitted an article on Lemmy yet, so I wasn’t aware of how that works.
Who the hell thinks that's what Champion means? Figure-skating Champion, Hot Dog Eating Champion, Heavyweight Champion. This another AI article?
Champion of the people is also an accepted use of the word. As in, championing a cause.
Its just used that way to make it less wordy. Like when people say "Raising money for cancer" instead of "raising money for cancer research". I always find it mildly humorous but the intent is obvious.
Champion can technically also refer to a notable advocate for something, like a "champion of human rights," or even as a verb in the same way, "we champion diversity here at Tech Corp Z" etc.
It definitely feels like an AI article. Humans don't write things like " he became a known quantity" in this context..
If you defeat the world's greatest sex trafficker you inherit the championship. I don't make the rules.
It's always the people you most suspect. Also, how is that not an Onion headline?
Something tells me none of the clowns who were pushing that movie on Facebook are ever going to hear about this.
Weird, the guy with a savior complex turned out to be a narcissistic sex pest?
Who could have seen this coming?
Also, didn't one of the financiers of the movie get charged recently with kidnapping a child?
Yeah, but it was basically crowd-funded so there were a lot of “financiers.” Probably only like 30% of the contributors are sex perverts.
Basically an article reporting that another journalist reported and investigated this, but yeah this org is sketchy and universally criticized by orgs that do real work. Their methods are basically to go buy kids under the guise of rescuing them, but they're basically there creating a market demand for more kids to be captured. They have a bunch of issues with what happens to the kids after being "rescued" and in one instance had to let them go because they didn't have capacity to support the kids they rescued.
Let them go?
Yeah like they couldn't provide for the amount of kids they rescued so they just let them run free, or I dunno how these trafficking rings handle returns. I think it's still referenced on their public wikipedia page, there were some articles about it a few years ago back when a journalist first looked in to the org.
With the right, it’s. Always. Projection.
Terrible rewording of the headline.
Ballard is facing other accusations of dishonesty; he also seemingly fabricated a relationship with an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, President M. Russell Ballard, which earned him a rebuke from the Church that called his behavior “morally unacceptable.” Ballard spoke to a small crowd that was caught on camera denying that the rebuke from the church never happened.
I think this meant to say "ever happened." People are terrible at prose these days.
"It didn't never happen!"
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