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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by eirini1 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:14AM (#23730507)
maybe not witchcraft accusations per se, but im quite unsure how you can be aware of events occuring in the world right now and think that exploiting the current socioeconomic order to gain land and wealth is not done.
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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by zentropia on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:59AM (#23731305)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Mashal_Khan

A student accuses the University staff of corruption and end killed by a mob for blasphemy.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by vmception on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:59AM (#23730656)
Right it wouldn’t be a witch craft accusation , in the west

Its one example

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by justinclift on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:57AM (#23732655)
Seems more a case of "use whatever the hot topic is for circumventing rational thought".

Recent version could be something like this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

Or any of the other modern topics people have mentioned. It'd need to be combined with having the ability and intent to acquire the property of the targeted people.

In the above example, being the people don't seem to really own much/any property anyway, maybe it's harder than it first looks?

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by viraptor on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:06AM (#23732259)
Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by Fjolsvith on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:44AM (#23731660)
Pedophilia.
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