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 @sunshinessp411
oh crap. I'm sorry, it was some british paper--I think the Mirror? I'm at work, lemme get my phone for this, don't want to keyword search
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thx, no rush, there seems to always be some kind of story going on. if it is the UK i think i might know the one, if so seems credible
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Replying to @sunshinessp411
ugh. :/ here's the piecehttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-ever-child-grooming-12165527 …
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i remember the story coming out, in a much less sensationalized way. the child services seems to have admitted they did little even knowing about it, probably didn't believe the stories being told, & not sharing the stories to find out it was a bigger issue.
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Replying to @sunshinessp411
ugh well your take in particular is causing me to revise my priors
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i feel like it is somewhat hysterical, but there may have been something going on, just that that article appears to try to connect isolated incidents into some kind of massive conspiracy.
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that seems like the most likely scenario, yeah
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