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I don’t dispute that their idea of art was highly suggestive and even offensive. The examples you offer were disturbing.

However, it is a leap to suggest pedophilia by so many people. Using this logic, adults who read anime comics and hentai comics might all be pedophiles. I am a parent with young children and trying to figure out what that stuff is about was an eye-opener.

However, we do not have the right to convict someone based on associations and art. Many on this site and certainly on the ones mentioned had pretty much convicted the man outside of an actual court of such offenses. In the end, it resulted in a deranged individual acting upon his belief with violence. This is a slippery slope absent of logic, reason, and true justice. I might not like anything the man promotes or believes. I might agree that much of what was linked to pizzagate struck me as bizarre and distasteful. However, I don’t know the real truth nor do you. If there is evidence of crimes against children by these persons it should be investigated and tried in a court of law. That is how justice works - it is not found on an anonymous web forum.

That persons would openly promote such vulgarity is disturbing and it says much about them and those who associate with them. I found that point to be powerful enough on its own - the same as I did when the NEA supported the artists who placed the crucifix in a jar of urine. However, this thing grew so far beyond that kind of disgust into some pretty wild narratives.

We all need to be careful about getting too carried away with suggested, but unsupported, narratives. That is what the left has done to Trump over the manufactured “Russia hacked it” narrative.