One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now
Victim testimony is viewed as inherently less credible than people saying the word “pizza” or “steak” is code for “child sex slave” based on nothing but their desire for there to be a conspiracy
There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy around what Epstein was saying in these emails because the reality is that sexual violence is enabled at every level of society, so he had no reason to hide what he was doing. The government, the powerful, even many in the media knew the truth
There’s nothing to conspire about when it comes to sexual abuse, particularly of young women like many of Epstein’s victims were. Nothing happens to perpetrators the overwhelming majority of the time. It’s almost legal in practice
In fact I think a lot of these conspiracies are driven by a desire for Epstein to have done “worse” things, because sexual abuse of girls and young women is so normalized and prevalent that people don’t view it as bad or strange enough to care. So they hope it’s secretly about eating babies
Feb 3, 2026 15:18
