This was just something that came to mind when I was reading over those posts (which I do plan on making something else later, as some other things came to mind that I wanna address later), but to keep to the title of the post, I do honestly feel like we're just throwing the word loli at anyone under the age of 18 in an anime when that has never been the case.
Kanna Kamui, from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, is a loli.
Anya Forger, from SPY X FAMILY, is a loli.
Eri, from My Hero Academia, is a loli.
Genshin Impact specifically has a 'short female' model, which nine playable characters have, and eight of them would be lolis, using the actual definition pre-'New Right' era (Diona, Kachina, Klee, Nahida, Qiqi, Sayu, Sigewinne and Yaoyao).
Why am I going through these examples? Mostly because I want to show people what characters fit under the classical definition used before the past few years of the anti-anime movement trying to use 'language creep' to muddle the definition.
I don't care which side of the argument you're on, I just wish that people would at the very least use the actual definitions of words because saying that Satsuki Kiryuin, Ryuko Matoi, Marin Kitagawa, among many other 'under 18 but visibly not like the kids I mentioned above' characters are lolis is rather bullshit and only serves to work against the right.
Just my two cents on the topic, but overall, whether or not things become legal or illegal, I am hoping that people are at least able to actually work with the true definitions of words rather than abusing language to get whatever they want. Attempts to ban Eastern media isn't going to make people suddenly love current Western media, it's going to make people further check out of society.
One big part of why this sort of content is being pushed so hard, in my opinion, is to deliberately conflate as many things as possible with what Epstein and those like him have been doing. To get as many people as possible on the left because they feel persecuted by the right's crusade, and as many people as possible on the right shooting their mouths so as to build the perception of broad and indiscriminate persecution.
And pay attention to this exact same formula being used for other subjects as well.
Indeed, you're saying the truth here. I think there was another thread explaining why the "Anime Right" (as they put it) is considered by them to be superior to the "Tradcon Right" and generally more willing to take action against bullshit, and I feel they might agree with a fair number of your points. As much as people might consider them losers, I certainly don't.
Remember - the same people who called Epstein's Island a "far-right conspiracy theory" are now calling people who enjoy anime and manga ''Epstein" for crossing their puritanical "waah her organs" world-views.
"Epstein? Wasn't that the guy who ran an anime club for rich people or something? I remember something in the news about him, he did cosplay with a president or something like that?" -> How they're trying to make you remember him.