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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by adolph on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:04AM (#33879002)
The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by mc32 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:07AM (#33879046)
Well, there were actual cases of it, but it was exaggerated in the media.

Just as the media makes it out like the next stop by a cop could end up in an execution if you’re not the same ethnicity as the cop. It’s still rather rare, or at least not happening at the rate the media portrays it.

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by actionfromafar on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:30AM (#33879337)
Yeah, but the ethnicity of cops is blue.
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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by denton-scratch on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @08:53AM (#33879714)
Why can't blue men sing the whites?
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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by adolph on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:37AM (#33882812)
Exaggeration of the actual happens for cause and effect alike. It is often hard to tell which side exaggeration favors until time passes.
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