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[Ddseddse]

Who remembers the Satanic Cult scare of the early - mid 80s? That shit was insane! I remember when people thought that listening to Heavy Metal was a gateway to satan.

Not gone. It's a perpetual undercurrent in the American psyche that likes to resurface in a slightly different incarnation every few decades.

The prevailing idea can also morph into different variation on the the theme. Here's a good example:

Brief: Teal Swan’s Satanic Panic to Anti-Woke Pipeline​

How do the screams of the Satanic Panic echo in anti-woke politics?

This past week, New Age Satanic Panic influencer Teal Swan released a new video to 1.5M YouTube subscribers about the dangers of "Wokeism." Yesterday, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) announced plans to form a Congressional Anti-Woke Caucus.

We know by now that conspirituality is a machine charismatics can use to generate mystical solutions to exaggerated or imagined crises. With Swan’s pivot into anti-woke discourse, she is taking the next logical step in broadening and secularizing her message.

What's not entirely clear is the pathway Swan has taken from Satanic Panic influencer to a New Age starseed, to unlicensed trauma recovery expert, to this potential future as a culture warrior. This Brief connects some of the dots, as the entanglement between New Age wellness objectives and reactionary populism tightens.

 

[Icky Mettle]

Ah, and today is the perfect day to mention that there were never razors hidden in apples at Halloween. Yet somehow this myth has persisted for decades, and people are still scared this happens. There might have been 1 apple with a very visible razor 1 time last century. How many here have told this story to their children?

I was never worried about eating an apple with a razor blade in it because there was never any fucking way I’d eat an apple on Halloween.

 

[altmin]

I remember the whole "razors in the apple" then and the "don't take pennies because they could burn bc people will heat them up with a lighter before giving it to you"

Who remembers the Satanic Cult scare of the early - mid 80s? That shit was insane! I remember when people thought that listening to Heavy Metal was a gateway to satan.

old white people gon old white people

Readers keep asking me questions - Halifax Examiner

And a reminder: kids are lying little shits.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

 

[sringwal]

Ah, and today is the perfect day to mention that there were never razors hidden in apples at Halloween. Yet somehow this myth has persisted for decades, and people are still scared this happens. There might have been 1 apple with a very visible razor 1 time last century. How many here have told this story to their children?