No matter our differences, we can all agree that belligerent midwit atheists are the most insufferable of all cunts.
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Myth? I lived through it and around it.
My parents were absolutely convinced that Mortal Kombat was a satanic object meant to defile kids brains into killers and satanist.
Same thing with heavy metal and what is now classic rock. I don't know how it's being used now-a-days as a descriptor but it was almost 1:1 with tranny cancel culture of today.
Nobody got fired for joking about it, or kicked out of anything for being casually satanic. SOME parents prevented SOME kids from doing SOME things that was probably best for them not to be doing anyway was as far as things went.
"Parental Advisory" stickers were a marketing campaign and you are naive if you think it was anything but.
I was taught to play dungeons and dragons by a Catholic priest, and they did actually find dead kids under that preschool.
That wasn't the satanic panic.
The satanic panic was based around an idea that a whole bunch of people panicked over some sort of preschool that they thought was doing satanic rituals. And from my understanding, the "panic" wasn't that big, and the preschool (or whatever) actually was shady.
What limited reading I've done on it makes it sound like it was a proto-Epstein situation and accompanying response from the powers that be, where instead of smearing everyone concerned about it as QAnon, they were just called religious crazies.
Yeah, you're basically spot on.
Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton's moralism wasn't part of the Satanic Panic, or even right-wing conservativism.
Just women acting like women with the systemic power to back it up...
The myth is that it was right-wing. Democrats were commonly Christian as well back then.
It wasn't attached to political views then, it was purely attached to religious views, which at the time covered both right and left.
Yeah I could reasonably accept that for the time.
I think the reason it has the "Right wing stamp" if you will now-a-days is because the progressive left vehemently opposes it and has more Atheist as party members. Thus, a new "Panic" would be inherently evangelical of which is nested under the GOP.
Now an interesting thing though is that around 14% and rising in the GOP are Atheist or Agnostic.
You’re mixing 80s and 90s. They were not the same. Easy to mix up when you’re Gen Z.
Are you implying I'm Gen Z? Lol. I'm on the elder side of Millennial trending more with Gen X.