L.A.’s proposed ban on single adults near playgrounds is fear-based policy making at its worst

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“Who wouldn’t want to ban creepy activity or creepy people from playgrounds? But what O’Farrell is proposing goes far beyond targeting worrisome activities that, in most cases, are already outlawed. It would bar any adult from sitting …

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What the Pizzagate conspiracy theory borrows from a bogus satanic sex panic of the 1980s

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“Pizzagate shares much of its content with an outbreak of collective hysteria over imaginary occult pedophile rings three decades ago, which can now summed up in three words: satanic-ritual abuse. At the beginning of the …