Did American society wind up in a repeat of the 80s Satanic panic because Muslims stopped being the primary bogeyman? I've always believed reddit atheists were a thing in that era due to 9/11 and the Iraq War. It was an easy way for liberals to wrap themselves up in war hawk beliefs, by painting a contrast between their imaginary progressive tolerant western society and imaginary scary Muslims.
I remember their focus changing around 2014, the outspoken atheists became more concerned with the supposed SJW menace and they have been ever since. Now they believe the same things as a medieval peasant, that there are nefarious lurking demons who are tricking people into getting horny in incorrect ways.
During the 80s-00s iteration of the Satanic Panic the average young male with a Redditoid skull shape felt annoyed and threatened by religious right-wingers going after media they liked, ie music, movies, comic books, video games and tabletop RPGs.
In the past decade they've become more worried that purple-haired trans feminists will take Zero Suit Samus away
Not to be a brainlet, but how much of this is chan culture becoming mainstream? /pol/ lies and will tell you that it lies, but for millions of people, it is a reliable news source.
For millions of people, they're reading /pol/ four or five layers away from the source. They're not reading chan culture directly, they're reading reactionary conspiracy Facebook groups that repackage /pol/ threads into a meme of a crying blue haired woman labeled "globalist."
The Evangelicals were always there, the whole time. Bush wasn't shy about talking about god and crusades and shit. The loud anti-Islamic psuedointellectuals were just politically useful at the time so they got a lot of air play. Remember Terry Schiavo and the shitfit about turning off the life support of a brain dead person with no chance of recovery? All driven by Evangelicals during the critical early years of the GWOT. If you lived outside major democratic cities they were just as omnipresent, violent, and oppressive as they are now.
Did American society wind up in a repeat of the 80s Satanic panic because Muslims stopped being the primary bogeyman? I've always believed reddit atheists were a thing in that era due to 9/11 and the Iraq War. It was an easy way for liberals to wrap themselves up in war hawk beliefs, by painting a contrast between their imaginary progressive tolerant western society and imaginary scary Muslims.
I remember their focus changing around 2014, the outspoken atheists became more concerned with the supposed SJW menace and they have been ever since. Now they believe the same things as a medieval peasant, that there are nefarious lurking demons who are tricking people into getting horny in incorrect ways.
During the 80s-00s iteration of the Satanic Panic the average young male with a Redditoid skull shape felt annoyed and threatened by religious right-wingers going after media they liked, ie music, movies, comic books, video games and tabletop RPGs.
In the past decade they've become more worried that purple-haired trans feminists will take Zero Suit Samus away
the satanic panic is definitely back lol
Seriously wtf is that balenciaga bs
It never ended, it's just gotten louder as a reaction to people not being miserable little fascist shitheads in public.
Not to be a brainlet, but how much of this is chan culture becoming mainstream? /pol/ lies and will tell you that it lies, but for millions of people, it is a reliable news source.
For millions of people, they're reading /pol/ four or five layers away from the source. They're not reading chan culture directly, they're reading reactionary conspiracy Facebook groups that repackage /pol/ threads into a meme of a crying blue haired woman labeled "globalist."
Those durn transfenders are trying to kill God and fuck Satan
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The Evangelicals were always there, the whole time. Bush wasn't shy about talking about god and crusades and shit. The loud anti-Islamic psuedointellectuals were just politically useful at the time so they got a lot of air play. Remember Terry Schiavo and the shitfit about turning off the life support of a brain dead person with no chance of recovery? All driven by Evangelicals during the critical early years of the GWOT. If you lived outside major democratic cities they were just as omnipresent, violent, and oppressive as they are now.
Jesus Camp (2006)
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