[lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children

[Michael McIntyre]

This puts me OTL for the day, so I'll say this and shut up.  Bollocks!  The
record shows nothing like this.  If a few social workers with their knickers
in a twist had this kind of power we'd all be well and truly fucked.
Over-zealous social workers didn't make "The Courage to Heal" a
best-seller.  Christian fundamentalists and "one or two feminists" didn't
send vote-hungry prosecutors baying after day-care providers.  Sex panics
feed on a mass audience, not the temporary pre-occupations of subalterns.
By your logic, we'd have to attribute the current mania about the white
slave trade - oops, I meant "sex trafficking" - to a few over-zealous NGO
workers.
MM

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:46 AM, <heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


>
> No, I think the record shows that the child sex panics are driven by
> over-zealous social wrokers with a peculiarly low opinion of other
> (especially working class) people. Those for the most part have been the
> protagonists, aided by christian fundametlaists, and, sad to say, one or
> two feminists (like Beatrix Campbell) whose hostility to the family
> outweighed their suspicion of the state.