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- Jan 6, 2019
The witch hunting era is a fascinating study. One huge issue was also score settling - there are cases of men propositioning women and being turned down then accusing them of witchcraft And actually participating in their torture as well, and cases of people using accusations to settle scores over business deals. It’s as though these tensions build up and society had no way of allowing the pressure to blow off a safe way. The actual focus of the accusations depends on time and place but what drives it is years of pent up aggression and petty grievance.Here’s a fun exercise. Read the below quotes without clicking the blurs and be or be not surprised that these sentences in fact...
... are not about BLM but might as well be. The parallels between this and the current well-demonstrated public delusion are staunch: the ‘learned’ and academic leaders of the day, even up to representatives of leading scientific body in the world, falling in line along with the hysteria at the snap of a finger; how an older, wiser generation characterized the hunt itself as “the work of the Devil, and characteristic of the way the Great Deceiver led foolish men into wickedness,” (and eventually stopped it); the emotional priming and prefixation on abuse hysteria and the mixing with race (the mass trials were kick started by two convulsing preadolescent girls blaming a black woman); on and on.
And just a turntables to all the rich black millionaires clambering for reparations; after members of Salem’s special jury signed statements of regret, guess what the victim’s families got? Repa-fucking-rations.
More optimistic is the reaction to the trials, which was (finally) marked by a prompt rebound of sanity and law & order. Very enlightening study. It’s guaranteed that the dumbfuck pro-BLM don’t know history well enough to not repeat it.
“The Salem of the 1690s is not so far from us as we like to think.”
I’m fairly sure this has been a driver behind many cycles of societal madness and massacres.