None of these are direct antecedents except insofar as they show that irrational processes can dominate aspects of public policy for years or decades.
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1.) is direct in terms of scale of the intervention but indirect in terms of motivation there was a woke and evangelical Christian alliance there; 2.) is direct precursor ideologically, not at the same scale.
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Satanic Panic is definitely closer in lineage, but I suspect the class- and sexual-political nature of temperance was extremely close to the later child protection movement
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