gonna come out against most of my timeline and express deep skepticism about the sex slavery ring story in reuters yeah sure makes the outgroup look bad and if it transpired like that it's super awful and heads should roll "if."
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eg: it is just not true that in the US thousands of women sex slaves are dragged to the super bowl and sold to ravening fans. it doesnt happen. and yet! you can read this dreck Every Damn Year the only reliable outcome is pageviews and NGOs and cops getting fat on donations
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go further and look at other moral panics. white slavery! black metal satanists! pedophile rings in nurseries! dungeons and dragons, for christ's sake! people get whipped up, send some poor people to prison, and stop paying attention for the inevitable judicial reversal
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I'm not saying it's impossible; only that if I were a betting man I'd say p=0.7 it falls apart under scrutiny :/
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here's the piece incidentallyhttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-ever-child-grooming-12165527 …
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