Listening to a podcast about the 1980s Satanic child abuse moral panic, thinking about how it makes every conversation about policing—it’s good, it’s bad, replace them with social workers—look absolutely ridiculous
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The grim reality is that there was in fact a Satanic plot to abuse children in 1980s America, but it was entirely planned and executed by expert psychologists, social workers, and the state in the name of “fighting Satanic child abuse”
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We never actually reckoned with the outcome of these cases. Most of the people involved kept their positions and their beliefs about what really took place
