Putting his "jokes" aside, what he argues is completely indefensible. Vito has unironically advocated for empathy and sympathy for pedophiles. Full stop. Not as a joke or a comedic bit. He has argued in the face of harsh resistance that if even 1 out of 100 pedophiles are prevented from abusing a child because we empathized with them, then that's worth enabling the other 99 who will go on to abuse children.
Him being a self-described "best friend" of Max Karson, having gone to High School with Max Karson, and having previously lived as a roommate to Max Karson are all the more damning. He's best friends with a man sincerely arguing that child pornography should be decriminalized and that the solution to pedophilia is to sexually gratify the pedophiles in the hopes it'll satiate their appetite and they won't rape.
He doesn't even have arguments that posture as a metaphysical examination of the issue. It's "guys, I TOTALLY care about protecting children, and that's why we should sympathize with the people abusing them! Because if we're really nice to the pedophiles then they'll get treatment! I have studies I cannot and will not cite!" Brittany Venti kept pointing out how suspicious it was that he leans heavily towards the solution that causes the least harm to pedophiles.
Oh, and he used to use an anime child as a Vtuber model. Vito is an obvious pedophile.
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