• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it really started with Columbine. Before Columbine, you mostly had moral panics involving Satanists abducting kids or putting razor blades in Halloween candy, but nothing truly substantial.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Satanists abducting kids

        That got really, really bad in parts of the US.

      • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        Unfortunately The ones i knew where all very damaged kids that constantly did harm to their friends.

        The school straight up disappeared a few of them to bd school after Columbine.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Most of my goth kids were nice Mormons, and the rest were obviously gay in retrospect but no one talked about it in the in the late 90s/early 00s.