While not every single event or accusation from the Satanic Panic era was true, more recent evidence has come out that shows that a huge fucking chunk of the abuse was real, just swept under the fucking rug.
I’m 99 percent sure that the “hysteria” over the Satanic panic was a manufactured PSYOP meant to downplay, distract, justify or ignore actual abuses that were/are coming out at the time.
Again, while not every accusation was true, many of the cases were declared to be false, merely because the fascist Amerikkkan state said so.
And I’m not talking about recovered memory therapy, I mean the facts that alot of the claims matched evidence that couldn’t otherwise be known.
For whatever you may view the worth of this, as an until very recent psych researcher in a lab that focused on PTSD and specifically CSA—I finished grad school I wasn’t kicked out for my unorthodox beliefs or anything—I can tell you that is not the commonly held opinion by contemporary researchers and that those cases have not been meaningfully substantiated, despite the huge amount of evidence that would have to exist for the stories to be true, nor have similar events been seen in the following years—despite the Qanon movement’s popularity with local police forces which would seem to indicate willingness to accept these cases as possible and investigate them. My difficulty with accepting the satanic abuse at face value comes down to this, how are archeologists able to investigate and establish ritual sites from the megalithic era but no solid evidence for these major satanic rituals that occurred within the lives of many still living can be located, despite the significant public backing (including in the govt) that existed at the time and again more recently with Qanon to investigate?
Ultimately it’s not my place to say, but in my opinion, this theatrical stuff belies that the vast majority of abuse is committed by an individual known to the victim, not cults the victims and their families weren’t active members of, guys in vans handing out candy snatching kids off the street, or predators in online chat rooms.
None of this speaks to OP’s question about forgetting trauma, but the satanic cult abuse specifically to be clear.
I don’t view accepting the cases of sexual abuse as being anywhere equivalent to Qanon. It doesn’t make Qanon valid at all. And I agree that people have an unfortunate tendency to normalize non-ritualistic abuse of children, and I’m very aware that the vast majority of the time, abuse is committed by someone very close or close to the victim, rather than strangers or cults.
I’m not saying any of this in a “Hillary Clinton and comet ping pong codeword pizza!” type of shit, and I don’t think that every accusation during the Satanic Panic was true, but I think a huge percentage of them were, and the bourgeois state just swept them under the rug.
I stress that regardless, all children and human beings, and life/sentient life in general, deserve protection from abuse of any and all kinds.
And in alot of these cases, the authorities somewhat openly admitted to burying evidence.
And no, I don’t discriminate against Satanists or religious people in general.
While not every single event or accusation from the Satanic Panic era was true, more recent evidence has come out that shows that a huge fucking chunk of the abuse was real, just swept under the fucking rug.
I’m 99 percent sure that the “hysteria” over the Satanic panic was a manufactured PSYOP meant to downplay, distract, justify or ignore actual abuses that were/are coming out at the time.
Again, while not every accusation was true, many of the cases were declared to be false, merely because the fascist Amerikkkan state said so.
And I’m not talking about recovered memory therapy, I mean the facts that alot of the claims matched evidence that couldn’t otherwise be known.
For whatever you may view the worth of this, as an until very recent psych researcher in a lab that focused on PTSD and specifically CSA—I finished grad school I wasn’t kicked out for my unorthodox beliefs or anything—I can tell you that is not the commonly held opinion by contemporary researchers and that those cases have not been meaningfully substantiated, despite the huge amount of evidence that would have to exist for the stories to be true, nor have similar events been seen in the following years—despite the Qanon movement’s popularity with local police forces which would seem to indicate willingness to accept these cases as possible and investigate them. My difficulty with accepting the satanic abuse at face value comes down to this, how are archeologists able to investigate and establish ritual sites from the megalithic era but no solid evidence for these major satanic rituals that occurred within the lives of many still living can be located, despite the significant public backing (including in the govt) that existed at the time and again more recently with Qanon to investigate?
Ultimately it’s not my place to say, but in my opinion, this theatrical stuff belies that the vast majority of abuse is committed by an individual known to the victim, not cults the victims and their families weren’t active members of, guys in vans handing out candy snatching kids off the street, or predators in online chat rooms.
None of this speaks to OP’s question about forgetting trauma, but the satanic cult abuse specifically to be clear.
I don’t view accepting the cases of sexual abuse as being anywhere equivalent to Qanon. It doesn’t make Qanon valid at all. And I agree that people have an unfortunate tendency to normalize non-ritualistic abuse of children, and I’m very aware that the vast majority of the time, abuse is committed by someone very close or close to the victim, rather than strangers or cults.
I’m not saying any of this in a “Hillary Clinton and comet ping pong codeword pizza!” type of shit, and I don’t think that every accusation during the Satanic Panic was true, but I think a huge percentage of them were, and the bourgeois state just swept them under the rug.
I stress that regardless, all children and human beings, and life/sentient life in general, deserve protection from abuse of any and all kinds.
And in alot of these cases, the authorities somewhat openly admitted to burying evidence.
And no, I don’t discriminate against Satanists or religious people in general.