I think the protest held by the Satanic Temple in 2016 outside of a ritual abuse conference in San Francisco and later their infiltration of the Survivorship of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse conference in Oakland is a great example of how moral panic and the scapegoat mechanism almost bind together to create a cloak of some kind.
I think the protest held by the Satanic Temple in 2016 outside of a ritual abuse conference in San Francisco and later their infiltration of the Survivorship of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse conference in Oakland is a great example of how moral panic and the scapegoat mechanism almost bind together to create a cloak of some kind.
Here's the only article I could source:
https://religiondispatches.org/satanic-temple-protests-pseudoscientific-therapies-for-satanic-abuse-and-witchcraft/