I'm really surprised there hasn't been some kind of high profile child martyr yet like you said. Some kid who got coached into lying about the content of a class taught by a trans person.
I though that's what was going to happen when that Florida school put a Disney movie under investigation because a teacher showed it and one of the characters is openly gay. But it seems like even the most hare brained of chuds can't seem to twist this into something nefarious. "Teacher fired for showing Disney movie to kids" just doesn't seem to reach people unless you're terminally internet poisoned.
The only thing I can point to for why it's not hitting yet is the Satanic Panic happened in the context of the 1980s and the current panic is happening with cameras everywhere and different standards for high profile litigation. There has yet to be a single photo, video, audio, etc. that shows a teacher forcing kids to be gay or trans or whatever, meaning it's stuck in this limbo of reactionaries screaming gibberish and pointing at innocent things that simply aren't what they claim to be. Also there's probably something to be said about how reactionaries are going after teachers, who are generally more class conscious than other professions, plus they've got unions.
The satanic panic also had the advantage of "legitimate" doctors and psychiatrists claiming that satanists had such occult powers and mastery over hypnosis, that they could erase both physical and mental scars from both victim and perpetrator.
People would literally get told they ate kids but had their memory hypnotically locked away, then confessed to doing those crimes. I can't imagine that happening today.
I mean, those same doctors are still active today but way more marginal, and still doing the cult grift.
Also reactionaries wanted to forgive any confessors to such satanic crimes, those who didn't stupidly go to the cops became massive celebrities despite claiming to be mass murdering sex criminals who targeted anything and anyone living for the worst violence possible.
Detransitioners barely get the most basic human courtesy, and those doctors who "dissent" disavow any involvement, merely being witnesses.
I'm really surprised there hasn't been some kind of high profile child martyr yet like you said. Some kid who got coached into lying about the content of a class taught by a trans person.
I though that's what was going to happen when that Florida school put a Disney movie under investigation because a teacher showed it and one of the characters is openly gay. But it seems like even the most hare brained of chuds can't seem to twist this into something nefarious. "Teacher fired for showing Disney movie to kids" just doesn't seem to reach people unless you're terminally internet poisoned.
The only thing I can point to for why it's not hitting yet is the Satanic Panic happened in the context of the 1980s and the current panic is happening with cameras everywhere and different standards for high profile litigation. There has yet to be a single photo, video, audio, etc. that shows a teacher forcing kids to be gay or trans or whatever, meaning it's stuck in this limbo of reactionaries screaming gibberish and pointing at innocent things that simply aren't what they claim to be. Also there's probably something to be said about how reactionaries are going after teachers, who are generally more class conscious than other professions, plus they've got unions.
The satanic panic also had the advantage of "legitimate" doctors and psychiatrists claiming that satanists had such occult powers and mastery over hypnosis, that they could erase both physical and mental scars from both victim and perpetrator.
People would literally get told they ate kids but had their memory hypnotically locked away, then confessed to doing those crimes. I can't imagine that happening today.
I mean, those same doctors are still active today but way more marginal, and still doing the cult grift.
Also reactionaries wanted to forgive any confessors to such satanic crimes, those who didn't stupidly go to the cops became massive celebrities despite claiming to be mass murdering sex criminals who targeted anything and anyone living for the worst violence possible.
Detransitioners barely get the most basic human courtesy, and those doctors who "dissent" disavow any involvement, merely being witnesses.
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