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And the MacMartin Preschool is pretty much a byword for "fake child sexual abuse claims that are outlandish and bizarre and absolutely did not happen and lead to witch hunts because fundies are dumb and psychologists employed questionable techniques." (The latter assertion is true but psychology is inherently not an exact science, much to the chagrin of psychologists, and that there is a prominently questionable quantum of evidence for something is not the same as the sum of the evidence for it being questionable.)The documents relating to the underground tunnels and the floor plan description of McMartin preschool are particularly horrifying.
The wikipedia article on the Mc Martin Preschool is apparently having an edit fight over whether the tunnels exist or not.
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There's a whole lot of wtf in this dump.![]()
When you consider that something may actually have happened, that's pretty disturbing. The "fact" that the "Satanic panic" nonsense was nonsense is in the category of climate change and WWII war crimes where people are expected to just as an epistemological first assumption realize that claims to the contrary are categorically wrong and made by delusional/bad/foolish people. This isn't to say that there probably isn't plenty of nonsense but whenever these nexuses of "of course no rational person would believe X" with potential evidence of "X" it really will get you wondering about the "rational people" who dismiss it as categoric nonsense. The world is a lot more disturbing than we want to admit as well as simultaneously being less complex (yes capital E objective metaphysical Evil is real as a certain meme put it: look no further than child troons for it to be blatantly advocated) and more complex (the situations that create this sort of thing aren't "just" the fact that there are very wicked people in the world but in fact they cross with all sorts of power structures and ideologies and general ugliness.)
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