There is a certain level of what I'd call 'pedophile hysteria' where even making a cogent, coherent point about some of the shit these guys do making it harder to prosecute cases, you'll be shot down as a pedophile apologist, yourself a pedophile, whatever the fuck. It's pretty tiresome - as is people using the word itself to describe shit that isn't remotely close. That word should hold some fucking weight because it's one of the most deplorable, heinous things someone can carry out, ergo it oughtn't be tossed around lightly or wantonly. Gen Z [and probably the older cohort of Alpha, as well] seem to be the worst about it, especially Redditoids, they will unironically refer to a 27 year old man dating a 19 year old woman as 'grooming' and 'pedophile-adjacent' - it's odd because many of them are quite degenerate, but when it comes to this single issue, they have a mile-wide puritan streak.
But yeah, it's pretty much: disagree with their methods? criticize some of the stupider shit they do? "YOU MUST BE A KIDDIE FIDDLER YOURSELF, FUCKING COMMIT SELF-ROPE ALREADY, PEDOPHILE!"
In many cases you can't really have an actual fucking discussion about any of this shit, you're instantly running cover for or engaging in apologia for pedophiles, even if much of the criticism is correct. I mean, for fuck's sake, people have been trying to warn Rosen that his approach can [and eventually will] get him shot. Letting suspects go back into their house for 'water' or whatever the fuck, who's to say they aren't going to reappear in the front doorway with a fucking AR and just smoke his entire crew? There was one egregious example where Alex let this guy go back into his fucking house unsupervised like 3-4 times for a drink, cigarettes, etc, and this was after he'd already said shit about not going back to prison and that he might as well just off himself. When you have someone cornered like that, particularly given how life-destroying said crimes are, it's hard to tell what the fuck they might do when they decide that the only way out is to go through you. But if you try to say: "yo Alex, that's a stupid fucking thing to do", somehow you're an apologist for the guy in question.