And then came the \u201cSatanic Panic\u201d of the late 1970s through the early 1990s. In the 1970s the social fabric was seeming to unravel (give or take a \u201cSpirit of \u201876\u201d bicentennial moment or two) with bands like Motorhead, ZZ Top, and Ted Nugent openly singing about \u201cjailbait\u201d, hardcore legal<\/em> child pornography in many European nations, and the normalization of divorce and \u201cswinging\u201d. \u00a0 This was a serious problem and social conservatives are indeed responsible to helping stave off the worse of this degeneracy and saving the U.S. from the Great Secularization that hit most of Western Europe and much of the non-European Anglosphere\u2026 and why the U.S. still hasn\u2019t joined those who fell later on.<\/p>\n But fighting the culture wars where they need to be fought was hard, didn\u2019t bring in financial support, and didn\u2019t bring praise to inflate the egos of many who would fight such culture wars. Instead they picked fights with innocent abet easier targets: Heavy Metal, Dungeons & Dragons, and\u2026 daycare centers. The former two had fantasy elements labeled as \u201cSatanic\u201d and were deemed to be the root cause of innocents being seduced to evil, while the later of the three fell to a \u201cPizzagate\u201d style child abuse accusations that ruined many innocents\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n But unlike earlier moral panics which had a successful, even if temporary, success, the \u201cSatanic Panic\u201d for the most part only made the social conservatives and religious right seem as fools. The consequence of this was that by the time the Hawaiian Supreme Court in the mid-1990s pulled their Xanatos Gambit which led to the Obergefell<\/em> decicion.<\/p>\n The consequences of overreach, sooner or later, is that by attempting to connect actual serious problems with anything they dislike, they will not convince people who would rightfully have problems with the former to now hate the later, but rather convince people who look at the later and see something that only a fanatical puritan would hate and assume that anything<\/em> they dislike is of a similar nature.<\/p>\n As someone who lived through the \u201cSatanic Panic\u201d, your humble author feels that it may be happening again. Oh, there is the \u201cNational Conservative\u201d demand that we stop loving libertarian free speech and, in a manly<\/em> way, silence enemies and their icky messages which induce wrongthink, just as there are those who demand that \u201cH8 Speech\u201d be banned because itinduces\u2026 wrongthink.<\/p>\n A clear example of this conflation comes from a The Daily Signal article by Tony Kinnett<\/a>. Much of the article quite rightfully goes after LGBTQ&c. propagans that tries to normalize kinky sex and transgenersim amongst elementary school children and earlier\u2014often as part of formal classroom teaching materials\u2014but conflates that with a Seinen Japanese Manga that has nothing to do with wokeness, LGBTQ&c. ideology, or even promoting anything sexually deviant (or really anything sexual at all).<\/p>\n Pictured: Social Conservatives & Religious Right suddenly having to deal with the greater threat that they weren’t fighting against.<\/p><\/div>\n Why did they lump in a manga adaptation<\/em> and interpretation<\/em> of a popular light novel series with clearly pro-woke propaganda? Bobbies. \u00a0 And that it showed evil goblins attacking females (but never showing the actual sexual assault). This does not and can not normalize anything sexual, deviant or otherwise, when it shows rape to be absolutely evil and the rapist as needing to be killed for their evil. There is more focus on the horror and evil of rape and especially of the lasting psychological damage<\/em> that a rape survivor experiences.<\/p>\n Perhaps it goes to show how little The Daily Signal groks about Goblin Slayer when the examples in the article (which censors non-nude shots to make things worse than they are) are from the first volume of the manga adaptation, yet the header image they use is from the 10th<\/sup> volume of the light novel series, where what was seen in the manga did not happen<\/em>.<\/p>\n Oh, I am not saying that toddlers should be reading Goblin Slayer. I\u2019m just saying that Goblin Slayer, which is a well written series intended for older readers<\/em>, is not even close to the same as pro-LGBTQ&c. kink grooming stories intended for children<\/em>.<\/p>\n If I wasn\u2019t already knowledgeable about the grooming \u201cinstructional\u201d books for kids and their contents, I\u2019d incorrectly assume that they were no big deal if they were on the same level of quality literature such as Goblin Slayer. But I am knowledgeable as such, which is why your humble author is writing against pushing such conflation.<\/p>\n We are already seeing overreach, and the consequences thereof. In Texas, there is a push to have chaplains in lieu of counselors<\/a> in K-12 schools. In Utah, an overly broad bill that banned \u201cdepictions\u201d of sex outside of limited medical or approved educational material has resulted in the ban of\u2026 The Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n That is the overreach by the social conservatives and religious right who either start going after innocuous things because it\u2019s easier to get support and funding to \u201cfight\u201d against, or because they want to use the real threat as an excuse to ban anything they personally don\u2019t like. It is the later case that is most self destructive, because it pushes away and alienates anyone who has no problem with the innocuous stuff and leads them to believe that the veritable threat from the propaganda is no more a threat from the innocuous stuff!<\/p>\n If you really<\/em> care about fighting wokeness and the grooming materials and propaganda aimed at children, then please, please<\/em>, focus on the actual core threat\u2014as hard, unflattering, or unprofitable at it may be\u2014rather than ancillary matters that you don\u2019t like but want to go after by nakedly using the real threat as an excuse.<\/p>\n If you aren\u2019t<\/em>, then you are aiding and abetting those who you claim to oppose.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" America has reoccurring periods where authentic concern for real, or at least perceived to be real, social ills results in social activist from the more puritanical parts of American culture that inevitably overreach and end up sooner or later becoming … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/polyhedral-dice-set.jpg\")
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