re: #17 mmmirele

I managed to upset a bunch of people I normally ally with on sexual abuse issues by stating my considered opinion that Satanic Ritual Abuse does not exist. I carefully pointed out that I did not doubt sexual abuse happens, it’s just there is simply no evidence to support the grandiose claims of SRA proponents.

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I’d note that Barbara is wrong on the origins of “conspiracy theory,” which apparently was first used in the 1800s but really entered the language after JFK’s assassination, and was specifically related to that event. Not to child sexual abuse.

Oh well. I’m not here to make people happy.

I remember the Satanic Panic in the mid 80s whipped up by Geraldo Rivera which climaxed here in Los Angeles with the McMartin preschool trial which turned out to be a goddamned farce. Thankfully the radical Xtian DA who brought the case was unseated in the 1984 election and the idiot prosecutor failed several times to get elected to a judicial slot.