UN UN pulling out of Malawi because of Vampire panic. - Someone has been reading too much Twilight

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...llout-from-southern-malawi-idUSKBN1CE25E?il=0

"The United Nations said on Monday it has pulled staff out of two districts in southern Malawi where a vampire scare has triggered mob violence in which at least five people have been killed.

The UNDSS report said at least five people had been killed in the area since mid-September by lynch mobs accusing them of vampirism. It said mobs searching for vampires have been mounting road blocks in the district, raising security concerns."
 
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I'd like to point and laugh at the stupidity of this, but alas, I'm living in a world where tryhard atheists are worshiping fast food condiments, people are marrying VR 8-year olds, every single part of the political spectrum is busy eating their own heads, and every single piece of escapsim I ever once had, whether it be movies, comics, or vidya has turned to complete dogshit.

....so yeah, Vampire panics? Okay, sure. Why not.
 
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People in Southern Africa have a tendency to bite themselves in the ass with their superstitions when they are already in trouble.

Remember when a village tried to attack international doctors trying to help them during the Ebola crisis after someone accused them of witchcraft?

Edit: Found the article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...elief-in-witchcraft-warns-British-doctor.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709130/
http://www.christianpost.com/news/e...witchcraft-black-magic-in-west-africa-127850/
 
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CWCchange said:
^From a place full of fucking WITCH doctors who drill holes in people's heads to expel demons, and murder albinos because they're white devils, not before everybody has sex with them to cure AIDS.
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How are those tribes not wiped out?
 
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If I were a vampire, even if I were Blacula himself, I'd find somewhere better than Malawi to be. These must be some real shit-tier vampires if they're reduced to sucking AIDS out of Africans.
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Someone could probably convince them vampires cure AIDS. After all, people got convinced that sex with an albino or an infant cured it.

Maybe Madonna isn't so bad for collecting kids from Malawi after all.

These crazy superstitions just cause panics. People get accused and end up hurt or killed. Before long everyone is suspected. People even turn on their own kids. I've seen pics of toddlers in Africa thrown out on the street because the family is convinced that the poor kid is a witch. Lots of Nigerians still believe that misfortune is due to witchcraft. Developed western nations don't believe in this nonsense. Of course the Malawi people will think the UN was afraid of the vampires too. Only making the belief stick more soundly. But I imagine that more civilized people tried to explain until they were blue in the face to no avail.
 
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Black Dracula does not approve of this new mob policy!
 
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My favorite African black magic panic was the time when a shitload of people there were convinced that someone was casting spells that made penises disappear, and apparently not a single fucking one of the victims were asked to drop their pants to show that their BBC was actually gone.
 
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