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 1980s, it seemed eminently plausible to many people that an extensive underground network of sadistic devil worshipers was sexually torturing large numbers of children in preschools and day-care centers across the country — and that these activities had somehow gone undetected for years, if not decades.”

Read the article by NCRJ Board Member Roger Lancaster in the Washington Post.

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