{"id":920,"date":"2013-04-22T02:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T02:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=920"},"modified":"2016-01-02T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T02:03:38","slug":"why-the-panic-needs-to-be-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Why the panic ‘needs to be remembered’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"130422Jenkins\"April 22, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cLecturing recently, I mentioned the American witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s. When the audience looked puzzled, I explained that I was referring to the Satanic Panic of those years, the wave of false charges concerning ritual child abuse and devil cults that made regular headlines in the decade after 1984. The explanation helped little.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven people who had lived through those years, who had been following the media closely, had precisely no recollection. Lost in memory it may be, but the Satanic Panic needs to be remembered, if only to prevent a renewed outbreak of this horrible farrago. And when better than in the 30th anniversary of the affair’s beginning?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all started in southern California, in Manhattan Beach, in the Fall of 1983….\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Remember the Satanic Panic<\/em><\/a>\u201d (Jan. 9, 2013) by\u00a0<\/em>Philip Jenkins<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, on\u00a0<\/em>Real Clear Religion<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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I share Dr. Jenkins\u2019 concern about public memory, of course.<\/p>\n

Which are more worrisome \u2013 those who have no recollection at all of cases such as McMartin and Little Rascals, or those who have forgotten they all were hoaxes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 22, 2013 \u201cLecturing recently, I mentioned the American witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s. When the audience looked puzzled, I explained that I was referring to the Satanic Panic of those years, the wave of false charges concerning ritual child abuse and devil cults that made regular headlines in the decade after 1984. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}