Minimization as Complicity: How Epstein Is Still Being Enabled (2/7/26)

There is nothing unclear about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, and anyone pretending otherwise is not confused, they are cowardly. The files are explicit and repetitive, documenting a system of abuse built on recruitment, payment, silence, and protection, not isolated misconduct. Minimization does not require denial, only dilution: urging people to “move on,” reframing accountability as obsession, or shaming anger as irrational. That behavior slows momentum, protects power, and preserves the same structures that shielded Epstein for decades. Many doing this now once demanded transparency and justice, but their courage vanished when accountability threatened their own political tribe. The facts did not change; their loyalties did. This is surrender disguised as restraint, and it actively enables a predator’s legacy.

What makes this especially vile is the erasure of victims in real time. Former advocates don’t dispute the evidence; they simply stop amplifying it, redirect attention, and fall silent when pressure appears. That silence is tactical, and it mirrors the discretion Epstein relied on to operate. Anger and disgust are not excess here—they are the appropriate response to industrialized abuse and institutional failure. Claims that continued scrutiny “helps Epstein” invert reality; silence, deference, and respectability helped him, while exposure damaged him. Ending scrutiny protects enablers, not survivors. This moment is a moral sorting: comfort versus courage, tribe versus truth. Those minimizing the record are not being nuanced—they are enabling abuse, even now, even after death.



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