“Claims about satanic cult ritual child abuse (SRA) arise from the convergence of two different moral panics: the child sexual abuse scare and the satanic cult scare,” sociologist Jeffrey Victor explained in Skeptic Magazine. “Social scientists use the term ‘moral panic’ to refer to a social condition in which a great many people in a society over-react to a newly perceived threat to their well-being from social deviants, even though the actual threat is either non-existent or greatly exaggerated…. Examples of past moral panics include the European witch-hunt, outbreaks of anti-Semitic persecutions, the white slavery scare and the 1950s Red Scare in the U.S.”
-sociologist Jeffrey Victor in Skeptic Magazine
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