I grew up in the Satanic Panic — and it’s happening again
I grew up in the Satanic Panic — and it’s happening again
I too have been afraid of things that couldn't hurt me. It is never too late to interrogate your fears
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It's absolutely happening again (if it ever stopped). Did you notice how "Critical Race Theory" was all conservatives ever talked about, for weeks/months on end, and then they all suddenly stopped, and then they couldn't stop talking about Trans/Drag things? It's all contrived panic. It's well coordinated to drive engagement and a sense of impending doom. They require an Us vs Them mentality to survive.
The easiest way to make an ignorant person feel special is to identify an "other" for the ignorant person to look down on/blame for their problems.
- Manufacture a scapegoat
- Charismatic speaker blames the scapegoat
- Get power/money
Oldest trick in the oldest of books.