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After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

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Re: After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

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Post by aiiie »

timmytokyo wrote: post #23
d6e wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the current one is all the fear about transgender people. America seems to always need to be afraid of some group of people

And as you can see, even Hacker News is not immune to this latest moral panic. Sadly, once a moral panic starts, it's nearly impossible to stop. It has to destroy an egregious number of innocent lives before society finally comes to its senses, at which point the panic slowly fizzles out.

I'm a bit surprised at how often it seems to come up in random comment threads. The atmosphere here feels increasingly unwelcoming lately.

Or maybe people feel like they're just having abstract, hypothetical intellectual discussions. But when I read these threads, it just feels like signal after signal that I no longer fit in or have a place here.

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Post by beebeepka »

pigsty wrote: post #24
friend_and_foe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Transgender people have existed throughout history and on every corner of the earth. They’re documented in basically any society with written records. But for some reason, in 2023, people (mainly Americans) think it’s something new and they demand to be angry about it.

Just last week, when I was at a techno music gathering, a couple of my friends saw a guy in drag (it was more like over the top ball dress really) and were like "whoaa, did you see that".

I had to remind them that we used to have scores of trannies attending these events in the past and and no one cared. But now, after the latest round of propaganda, we, as a society, fear them again.

Re: After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

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Post by raffraffraff »

BigCryo wrote: post #12

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Well... Except that 685m+ people got covid and 6m+ people died from it, and uncounted numbers also died from preventable illnesses because hospitals didn't have capacity to carry out necessary procedures. Whereas satanic panic was just completely made up.

Re: After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

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Post by mrslave »

jgaa wrote: post #27

In Norway, this fire was lit by a high ranking police officer in the state criminal police, it's "FBI". Many people was hurt, falsely convicted and many lives was destroyed. In the police, and in the child abuse industry, money was made and careers built on these lies. The police officer who brought this mental pest to Norway was eventually arrested, naked, hiding behind a bush in his neighbors garden - spying on a l…

Link please?

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Post by lynx23 »

1letterunixname wrote: post #2

Other moral panics of thundering herds of dumb: - Salem witch trials - Know Nothing-Party - KKK - McCarthyism - Rock and roll - Banned books - Sex education - Heavy metal - Gay movement & HIV/AIDS - Video games - People who consume Fox News - People who consume US local news - Anti-immigrant hysteria Roughly 1500 innocent individuals have been executed in the US. 100k's of innocent individuals languished slowly and l…

Add Covid-19 and the resulting mandatory vaccination witch hunt to that list.

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Post by anilakar »

pigsty wrote: post #24
friend_and_foe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Transgender people have existed throughout history and on every corner of the earth. They’re documented in basically any society with written records. But for some reason, in 2023, people (mainly Americans) think it’s something new and they demand to be angry about it.

A vocal minority is visibly complaining about another vocal minority visibly complaining. Thank god we have social media that enabled this in the first place.

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Post by Timon3 »

at_a_remove wrote: post #25
klyrs wrote: post #11

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People believing that masses of children are literally getting surgery, circumcision notwithstanding, is a result of a persistent campaign to cause panic. And it's the same hucksters selling fear to the same religious reactionaries. New day, new apocalyptic scapegoat.

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You just made a wild jump. Do you think hormones are a type of surgery?

Re: After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

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Post by Timon3 »

anilakar wrote: post #38
pigsty wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transgender people have existed throughout history and on every corner of the earth. They’re documented in basically any society with written records. But for some reason, in 2023, people (mainly Americans) think it’s something new and they demand to be angry about it.

A vocal minority is visibly complaining about another vocal minority visibly complaining. Thank god we have social media that enabled this in the first place.

This feels a lot like people during the civil rights movement complaining about "a loud minority complaining, and another minority complaining about that". Not everything is equivalent.
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