but they don't WANT it rendered moot. they WANT to believe these (they imagine) terrible things are true, despite knowing they aren't, because it makes them feel righteous and lets them tell themselves they're being vicious not out of bigotry or cruelty but to Defend The Children https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1408150159339393025 …
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as always
@SlacktivistFred's "False Witnesses" posts are necessary reading on moral panics: • https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2008/09/08/false-witnesses/ … • https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2008/10/08/false-witnesses-2/ … •https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2008/10/10/they-need-help/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread
if someone WANTS to believe terrible things are true, despite kind of really knowing they aren't, you can't reason them out of it without addressing whatever other thing is making them want to believe it.
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