Do you have any thoughts or feelings about the current satanic panic going on around the epstein files?
I don't want to form a take yet. It is still early days. Everything is mired in a storm of misinformation, so I am waiting for the dust to settle somewhat.
There's a Satanic Panic going on with those?
Is this using the "traditional" sense of Satanic Panic where it's a bunch of people genuinely afraid it's happening because of Satanism, or is this a new euphemism I don't know?
I think the asker might be referring to the general idea of people interpreting the files to mean there's the kind of organized shadowy network of child traffickers that's a common trope, since this is the closest something like that has ever gotten to being real. I'm not all that plugged in on the scene, but I won't be surprised if there are some people promoting extrapolations from this saying Epstein and his frequent clients were satanists, or at least doing rituals and shit. That said, I do think what makes the Satanic Panic different from earlier versions of this same thing (accusations against the Knights Templar, the Elaborated theory of witchcraft, antisemitism) and later ones (pizzagate and qanon) is the vilifcation of nerdy interests. None of that is happening here, so focusing on the similarities to the Satanic Panic isn't really useful.
I wasn't using it as a euphemism. I was meaning it to directly refer to the people freaking out about mentions of Moloch and Baal in the files and making a lot of noise about their theory that devil worship/occult stuff (not that theres much of a difference to these people) played a large role in what happened on the island and in the lives of the "elites" in general.
