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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on first blush, tho, it reads most like trafficking panic media in the US extremely lurid! unspeakable horrors! unbelievable scale! mass complicity! well usually when stories are unbelievably awful, the focus ought to be applied not to "awful" but to its modifying adverb
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
from what the police report on rotherham said it claimed there were similar rings in cities all across the uk there will be more reveals about more cities going forward
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Replying to @turrible_tao
if you see evidence coming out that demonstrates my bet was badly-placed, I'd be happy to see it and update my beliefs :) i mean except that it would suggest something awful happened, so not happy in that sense
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Replying to @eigenrobot
if it was true in rotherham it seems to make sense to me the way that and the other cities that came out at same time as rotherham are broken in a similar way but hopefully ur right
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @eigenrobot
its pretty fucked up to be a rotherham truther I wasnt suggesting it wasnt true I was making an "if then" statement
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rotherham truthers are murderists imo
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