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This article is pretty good, but I think it's missing a major piece of the picture here.
The rest of the picture is about sexual repression, religion, the concept of sin, self-hatred, and projection.
You know what other thing that isn't a crime that these people treat the same way, with a desire for retributive violence? That they also often put on the same pedestal as pedophilia, acting like it's just as evil?
Being any stripe of LGBTQ+. They have the same rage and violent tendencies towards them despite being any type of queer or trans not being dangerous to others and as such isn't a form of crime.
A little background story that's related. I have a trans friend, and she's been in an on-again/off-again relationship with a deeply Christian man for almost a decade. Every time they got close, they would eventually have sex, and then immediately after he would have a "come to Jesus" moment and stop talking to her and disappear and say he couldn't be her friend because she was a temptation toward sin and he couldn't support her "lifestyle." That he needed to repent. Then, eventually, he'd come back around and "temptation" would get him to do the same thing all over again.
This is the deep, deep problem here, in my estimation.
It's like how Grindr crashes when there's a Republican convention under the heavy load (heh) of traffic from closeted right wing men who want to hook up with each other while all in the same town. It's like how the most religious areas also have the highest rates of viewing transgender pornography.
It's about sexual repression, self-hate, viewing it as a "sin", and projecting that self-hate on to others, erroneously thinking that if the thing that causes "temptation" is removed entirely that they will no longer be tempted. So they want to violently remove the temptation (people) from society so they can be affirmed in their belief that they are good people and not broken sinners.
I'd argue that it's exactly the same with pedophilia. It's about the thing they hate within themselves that they want to project onto others and use as a weapon to wipe out the temptation. They think if they just kill all pedophiles it will stop, refusing to accept their own pedophilic tendencies which are driven by it being a sexual taboo, just as they see being queer or trans as a sexual taboo. It's really a gross and pathetic way to live.
I believe the article is right about it being a legitimizing tool for violence as well, but I also think it's deeply tied to sexual repression, self-hate, and rejecting their own problems, pretending only other people are the real problem. They're just tempted by sin, they're not evil, they just need the temptation to be stopped for things to be "fixed." When they make "mistakes" they want others to give them forgiveness and patience, not to be violently put down like they want for others who do the same things as them.
Exactly. We have to get to the root of the issue