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[–] 21089573? [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

NYTimes ran this article yesterday:

THAR BE WITCHES

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EDINBURGH — Tucked around a corner facing Edinburgh Castle is a modest memorial to accused witches, so unobtrusive that most tourists walk right past on their way to the larger attraction. Made in 1894, the Witches’ Well is the only such remembrance in town. A plaque shows the profiles of two women, one angry, one mild, and a snake circling them both. Beneath is a small basin that holds not water but a few flowers.

Its size and tone belie what the University of Edinburgh recently demonstrated in a startling project published last month — that Scotland was the locus of an extensive witch-hunting craze from 1550 to 1750. Its new interactive map shows for the first time the scale of the panic, when the authorities targeted more than 3,000 people throughout the country, from the largest cities to the most remote and sparsely populated islands.

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[–] 21089695? 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

They’re setting us up to believe that belief in evil is merely a type of social contagion — a moral panic which the masses and rubes periodically fall into.

Not this time. We will allow for all due process, and will not be swayed by attempts to gaslight or by social pressure to conform to the groupthink.

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[–] 21093887? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

"They’re setting us up to believe that belief in evil is merely a type of social contagion — a moral panic which the masses and rubes periodically fall into."

Underrated comment. And a large part of how friends and family get to the state of complete denial they are currently in