
Stranger Danger
You're Wrong About
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What Is the Biggest Threat to Us?
i feel like the thing about hysteria, because there's no way to react to that news, but with hysteria um, is that it burns itself out. What i think happened in the late seventies is that we began, for really the first time as a society to see the incest, secual abuse and child molestation within the family. We seized on the statistically non representative but horrifying cases. The fact that ronald regan was president when this caught fire is not a coincidence. Ya. Ye, that has a lot to do with why we directed our fears in this direction. And you see, now we have these cycles where america starts and stops paying attention to child sexual
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